dingle 22-25 08 08

We set off for the dingle penninsula, southwest ireland on friday 22nd august, myself, plasticpaddy, and pro-hunter.

we landed early evening, and the weather looked promising in spite of the reports so we headed off to brandon pier to stockup

on mackerel. a few pubs around dingle town were then visited!!

up at the crack of dawn saturday morning and the weather was a much different story, grey skies, peeing down, and blowing an

absolute hoolie 30+ mph. relying on local knowledge from jonty we tried to fish camp beach as its on the north of the penninsula

and the gales being southwesterly but it was in our faces and we retreated after about an hour!

we moved on to inch strand and gave it a go there, the weather wasn't much better and now it was raining heavily and coming in

horizontaly and straight in our faces. sod it we agreed, not for moving again we brassed it out till the death

with it being a shallow beach, and having no waders we had to wade out the waist to cast,,,we were WET!!

after many hours we were ready for packing up when i had a massive slack liner, felt like another big clump of weed untill i got it

to the shallow water where it really came to life! my pb bass



i was over the moon, the wind and rain just really didn't matter, but the best bit was jon and jay were really made up for me! real mates

thanks lads!!

after a photo-shoot billy was revived and released



after a hot shower and some scran we ventured out to a bar close to our digs in cloghane called "tigs" well the hospitality of the irish

was great, a smashing night and maybe a guinness or two too many!!

the peace of sunday morning was shattered with an early morning wake up from jonty,,,,,again!

after a visit to "dun an oir" and a confrontation with an angry farmer we decided to move to the lighthouse in dingle harbour.

we fished hard for wrasse with crab baits, and rays at distance with sandeel and mack. the vast amount of fresh water killed the fishing stone dead!

jon and jay had a run of pollock.

jon



jay



jon again



well in lads,,,,

the weather really was this bad, a few pics!







all in all a fantastic weekend, the weather was crap as was the fishing! but funnily enough we all had a great time!

thanks to jon and jay great guys!

thanks to jack and anne for giving us digs!

i for one can't wait for may!!!!

Well done on the bass - what weight was it?

I know what you mean about the weather on Saturday - I was on another of the peninsulas in the southwest - the Beara Peninsula. I was fishing off the rocks and it was so wet that I had to wear my waders rather than my waterproof leggings.

having no waders we had to wade out the waist to cast,,,we were WET!!

You certainly deserved a good bass after that

"Well done on the bass - what weight was it?"

we reckon about 7.5 maybe 8lb

in the second pic to the left is my boot, size 10

Nice Bass and some great pics.

nice one chris. well worth the trip.
see you kept it secret again.

Well done on the PB. I'm sure you got every bit as wet on the inside to make up for being wet on the outside.

Well done on the bass, I'm actually heading down to Dingle on Saturday for a weeks fishing and I can tell you if I caught a fish like that I'd be a very happy man.

You deserve the nice bass after the effort you put in. Well done. What was the problem with the farmer at dun an oir. Fished there a lot and never had any problems, even spoke to the guy checking the livestock so i assume he was the farmer and he never said anything

we tried to fish dun an oir two years ago, it appears you can only get to the first 'finger' of rock??? is this the right 'one' for pollack and wrasse cos to get to the others we had to cross a field and the farmer boy was prepared to shoot us i think, we tried twice to get across and he kept returning going absolutely mental!!! we didnt go there again!

You said the fishing was crap - I'd be delighted with the session you had!

Anyway - I love the pictures - especially the one of the bass swimming away, what a wonderful sight.

Well done!!!

John D.

Excellent report gents, congrats on the PB too! Hope there's plenty more to come for ya.

kerry in the summer= floatation suit they get real weather down that way well done great pics lads and great report

kerry in the summer= floatation suit they get real weather down that way well done great pics lads and great report

baggage allowance= 15kgs,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,