Limerick, 4-june-2008

People:Me

Duration:6:20pm till 9:55pm

Tide:19:00 (5.0m) 12:37 (0.2m)

Weather:westerly calming later on.

Bait:sand eel, refrozen mackerel and sand eel

Rigs: up and overs, golds rig and 3 hook flapper

Results:
1 whiting, 2 dabs on the one cast of the 3 hook flapper to mackerel before 7pm
A 12lb ray to the up and over on sand eel/squid up and over at distance after 9pm . Next cast produced another large ray on but went to ground half way before 9:30pm.
2 dogs exither side of the big tide run one after 7pm one after the large ray.


Report: Plenty of weed in the water that made fishing difficult with the big spring tide. After the main tide run this was not as big a problem but I could still see large rafts of weed out there. I was fishing one rod alot of the time because of this and fishing was impossible for some of the tide run. I could see when the tide died enough to fish and lauched the ray bait out. I couldnt walk the ray to where it could be easily pulled in as there was a lump of weed in the way so I had to climb down to the water holding onto the leader and pull it it out of the water one handed hoping I wouldnt slip into deep water. Tide went dead just before 10pm so it was time for home.

Donagh

nice stonking ray donagh. well done fella. I have only used the up and over rig a couple of times due to tide and weather restrictions. great spot of fishing for only a couple of hours.

as usual this mark produces the big ones year in year out.....good tides this week aswel for it....tonight and tomorrow will be as good i reckon....any pics?

Cracking ray there Donagh

There was some serious weed in the estuary on Sunday , even off the boat. It really stank in the heat as well!

Big tides all week as well.
Best of luck over the next few evenings.

Thought about tope off beal point at all?

Kev

Have a pic on the camera but I have to check it on the pc yet to see if its ok

Its difficult to get time to fish beal with family and work. You would have to get fresh mackerel, then fish it it on a night tide and then the place could be murdered with weed when you get there.

Rgrds
Donagh

I am in the same boat about trying to get out fishing fella. hopefully get somewhere this weekend but decent fishing like you had takes a couple of hours to get too for me! I'd say that big thornie done some kiting. again well done

Picture of the fish. It was up on the album but the album picture link has now been removed for the SAI club. It seems like this a web site for the SAI club only now.

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Nice photo Donagh, wish my camera was that smart :) . Pity the album picture link has been removed.

thats a good ray...well done