People:Myself & my son, Conor
Duration:1.5 hours
Tide:rising, nearly full
Weather:Cloudy with sunny spells
Bait:lures
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Results:We were in Galway with the family to visit our daughter in the Gaelteacht and threw in the spinning rod in hope of a session! We managed to fish Carna at the point of Mweenish Island. When we arrived we walked along a small sandy beach and up over a rocky headland and found a nice spot to fish. A kelp bed stretched out for about 30 metres ending on a clean sandy bottom. We were fishing into about 20 ft of water and started spinning with a diving plug and fished with it for about 30 minutes without a bite. We decided it was time for a change so we put on a heavy silver spinner. I fired it out to about 40 metres and let it drop to the sandy bottom and then used a slow retrieve and just as the lure reached the kelp bed I hooked into a pollock of about 2 pounds which gave a really good scrap on the light tackle. Three similar sized pollock came in the next three casts but then a seal popped his head up through the kelp and the fishing instantly died. After another 20 minutes we moved spot and on the first cast we were into another smaller pollock but though the fishing was good family duty called, so we packed in what was an enjoyable but short fishing session.
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