28/07/08 My first shore caught Thornie

People: Moi and fishermannum1

Duration: 9pm - 12.30

Species: 3 Thornback Rays

Weight: Don't care.......

Weather: Sublime, even the wave you see in the photie was from a passing boat.

Method: Pulley rig

Bait: Sand eel

Comments: As most of you know I've been craving for one of these curious creatures all year, I've had to wait a long time till an opportunity came up so I could make the journey up north. I've had a few good fish this year including a 46lb Tope a few weeks ago which is a PB Irish fish but for some reason my first Thornie toped the lot :scratch: .

Unfortunately I run out of sand eels and my mackies were a day old so I bagged about a dozen flounder during the morning session, still buzzing though and looking forward to my next trip.

Big thanks to fishermannum1 for the hospitallity, hopefully I can return the favour in the near future ;)

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congratulations :wink:

may they be the first of many for you.

well done.

Great fish Robbie,

Nice post card back ground there too !

nice one on the thornie.its a pity we have to travel so far to get rays from the shore,we should be catching them in belfast lough or strangford but the chances of catching them these days has been well and truly wrecked :cry:

well done mate on ur 1st thornie, keep it up :D

congrats - great to brake the duck and feel the drag !

nice one on the thornie.its a pity we have to travel so far to get rays from the shore,we should be catching them in belfast lough or strangford but the chances of catching them these days has been well and truly wrecked :cry:

I know what you mean Davy, Carlingford used to be heaving for them.


Good new is that they were loads picked up (mistakenly) by the mussel dredgers this year around March (all returned), they dredge only 100 yds from the shore at slack water so I'll have to start putting in a bit of work the problem is that it would more than likely take up all my spare time trying to locate the small numbers that are still there.

Nice fish MP - well done :D

StevieC.

good stuff,hopefully they will make a good come back down there and maybe even up here some day

Nice fish Marshpike would like to add one to my species list too.

Jonny

Congrats marshpike bet that was well worth the wait!! They're nice looking ray too :)

fair play to you they are all fine big ones aswel...

congrats mate, i have always had a soft spot for the thornies. looks like you got a cracking night for it as well. class background. well done mate

Well done, always nice to get a knew species from the shore.

Sorry 'new' species

was good to meet up with you marshpike and do a bit of fishing, when you landed that first thorn back of the night," and on your first cast too" the look on your face was priceless!!! well done mate you got the result you were after, and two more to top it off. nice fishing mate....

was good to meet up with you marshpike and do a bit of fishing, when you landed that first thorn back of the night," and on your first cast too" the look on your face was priceless!!! well done mate you got the result you were after, and two more to top it off. nice fishing mate....

Cheers lad, thats one I owe ya........... :wink:

Great fishing again Robbie those thorny's look great....Have I seen you on another forum? :lol:

Great fishing again Robbie those thorny's look great....Have I seen you on another forum? :lol:

You do look familiar............ :wink:

well done mate, absolutley stunning fish. :D