West Clare, Bridges of Ross and nr. Moneypoint 4/08/2008

People: Ross, Mike , Emmet

Duration: 2 hours at Br. of Ross and 3 hrs. near Moneypoint

Tide: Low at Ross and HW at Moneypoint

Weather: Warm, slight Westerly breeze

Bait: Crab, shrimp and spinning 14g Green Viva Parade

Rigs: One Hook short dropper 18ins. above lead with rotten bottom

Results: Bridges of Ross
18 Ballan Wrasse, several around 3.5 lbs. Best 4 lbs. 4 ozs. Most on crab but good fish on shrimp also.


Results: Near Moneypoint
12 Bass Schoolies and several foul hooked Mullet which were in dense shoals including a small Golden Grey Mullet foul hooked by Emmet.
Has anyone caught them west of the Shannon?



Catch and Release: Yes/No: Yes



Report: Fished around LW at Ross as the mark is exposed only for a short period. Wrasse were a good average size. No sign of Triggers yet. Scuba divers in Kilkee reporting Triggers on Reefs in Kilkee Bay. They should be in range any day now!

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Great fishing Ross, 18 wrasse in 2 hours is a very busy session 8)

Nice to see a golden grey, albiet foul hooked....but fair play to you for being honest about it, many other anglers (some I know) would have claimed the catch as genuine :roll:

I remember seeing a short segment a while ago on "Tight Lines", Skysports angling show. The presenter and a few other UK anglers had made the trip(which they did annually) to a west clare(I think, but could of been kerry) beach to specifically target the golden greys. They were fishing what I would describe as a surf beach, as far as I can remember :?

I dont know much about the species, so wouldnt know if this was the norm, but boy did they catch some fish.

I havent time right now to browse through the tight lines blog, but here's the link.

http://www.skysports.com/tv_guide/show/ ... 76,00.html

There may be reference to the west clare golden greys on the site somewhere :roll:

Hope this helps.

Mark

dats a great session