Connemara.. 13/6/009

People:me fein agus nige

Duration:er.. about 6 hours

Tide:over high

Weather: calm with slight southerly

Bait:sandeel macl and squid

Rigs:various

Results:loads a fish




Report: its been a long while since i've done one of these report things so it may take me a while....

headed out with nige to one of our marks.. it took me a while to navigate through the field, knee still not right.. well i suppose surgery will help, whenever that happens.. anyways back to the report.. finally made it to the mark, and set up .. cast out and slowly waited.. and it wasnt within 10 mins i had a bite.. woohoo.. looking good as i reeled in, ray for first cast not too bad.. but alas it came off the hook just as i was about to land it.. oh no... bait back on and out again.. soon after nige was into a whiting.... i think it must have forgot to go home after the winter.. a few whiting and doggies later we got a txt from salty and 'the stig' with them both holding pictures of ray..
so back to fishing... a few doggies later and what looked like a doggie bit for me turned out to be somthing a bit more substantial.. yipppeee.. a ray.. big one too, it even took line on me as i was reeling it in.. so off down the rocks nige went to help lift it out.. (i only had a 10lbs snood on) so a quick un hook weigh (8lbs 2oz) a few pics and back in the water it went.. also sent salty and 'the stig' a pic of it.. strangly enough we didnt hear back from them???
a few more doggies later and it was nige's turn.. so i slowly made my way down the rocks to be met by not only a ray, but another suicidal whiting.... a quick unhook of the whiting and back into the water, and lifted the ray up the bank for the unhooking and pics and weighed in at just over 5lbs... then it was back to doggies again.. then the midges started to come in plague proportions :S to back to the car.. and in good time too as it poured out of the heavens on the way home...

total catch
me: 1 ray 6 dogfish 5 whiting
nige: 1 ray 4 dogfish 4 whiting 1 mackerel...

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we got a txt from salty and 'the stig' with them both holding pictures of ray..
yipppeee.. a ray.. big one too, it even took line on me as i was reeling it in.. so off down the rocks nige went to help lift it out.. (i only had a 10lbs snood on) so a quick un hook weigh (8lbs 2oz) a few pics and back in the water it went.. also sent salty and 'the stig' a pic of it.. strangly enough we didnt hear back from them???

That's 'cos we'd stopped fishing at that stage we did however land twice as many Rays as ye


Nice Rays lads well done whats the story with the whiting

got what we wanted. always good to get ray as for the unwanted whiting - weird getting them this time of the year. annoying little buggers.

Nice session that's a lovely Ray and you beat the weather happy days

bet it felt good to get back out fishing againg steve and a nice session too, well done guys getting the gear ready now to head down to fahan to have a session with al an jordan, just hoping the rays are on the feed

nice session and isn t 10lb trace very light for ray

well done on the ray,Nice session

nice session and isn t 10lb trace very light for ray

yeah, just a tad, I'd usually use 15lbs flouro but i had used the last of it and only had 10lbs flouro.. hence why i sent nige down the rocks to pick upi the ray for me, but if you play a fish right you can use even lighter line again just expect to play the fish for a while

well done lads nice session hope 2 get a few next weekend myself

well lads, id love to land a ray

good to see you out again steve and some nice fish too,well done lads

nice fishing lads, hope the knee isnt too sore today steve, and your right, i do hate you more after seeing the photos

fishermannum1
getting the gear ready now to head down to fahan to have a session with al an jordan, just hoping the rays are on the feed

seen your car down there, was out a run with the wee lass to give missus a break, quite a few fishing, how did do anyway?

some nice rays there lads!

nice fishing lads, hope the knee isnt too sore today steve, and your right, i do hate you more after seeing the photos

fishermannum1
getting the gear ready now to head down to fahan to have a session with al an jordan, just hoping the rays are on the feed

seen your car down there, was out a run with the wee lass to give missus a break, quite a few fishing, how did do anyway?

hi mc.
i got the one and droped two, but from what i could see there was a good few being got.
minty has a post up.......fahan beach.

are you new on this site steve? good to see you havnt lost the knack hows your legiment

Welll done lads. good to see ya out and about steve.

nice result getting some fish steve hope the knee gets sorted soon mate