West Cork 6 & 7 June.

People : Me, edith, her sister and husband and nephew.
Duaration : 6th 11.00 - 17.00, 7th 16.30 - 18.00.
Weather : 6th sun,rain,sun,rain,sun, hailstone!
7th sunny
Methods : 6th lures
7th free lined bread

Results : Me 3 pollack to 2 lb, 3 mullet (landed one)
Rupert 4 pollack to 1 lb and a coalfish.

Report:
6th :
As the girlfriends sister and husband were visiting i thought i would introduced him ( Rupert) to sea fishing he is a mad keen coarse and trut fisherman at home in austria but has never tried sea fishing.
The weekend started well the first fish went to him a small coalfish that was the most amazing colour it was bright orange ( sadly no photos of day one as the camera thought it was a fish and went for a swim ), next up he caught two ollack not big by any means both weight just under one pound, so at this atage the pressure was on as i was three fish down eventually i hooked into a nice pollack who weighted just under one pound, by this stage he had caught two more pollack but i then showed him up by reeling in the biggest of the day at just under 2 pounds .
the weather wasnt great but we fished through and it ended up being a good day.

7th :
Headed back down today to sample the trout fishing in the schull resevoir to find out that it is closed maybe i should have rang ahead as we planned nothing else to do apart from bashing some trout .
Luckily we headed to mizen head to the lighthouse and a few other senic sights, the girs were delighted with this no fishing lark myself and rupert were less impressed , we decided to stop in castletownshend on the way home for dinner in this amzing seafood returant called Mary Anns i recommened it to anyone looking for great seafood, we got there at 16.30 to realise the resturant didnt open until 18.00 , so now no fishing all day and one and a half hours t wait we took a stroll down to the pier, to our luck a big shoal of mullet were feeding on the surface and we had some bread in the car, i had never fished for mullet but we set up two rods to free line bread , then the fun began , i was fisrst into a fish which took the bait across mooring ropes ( have a look at the photos and you'll see what i mean about mooring ropes ) i managed to get him out and i think he weighted at least three or four pounds mabye from the photos someone could have a better guess, rupert didnt hook up as he was intent on constantly pulling the hok away from the fish and the girlfriend missed one, i hooked 3 in total landed one and the second snapped off as i was lifting him which was stupid , and the 3rd was at least double the size of the first one but he snapped me off because the clutch was too tight again stupid .
Great weekend though and a new species, looking forward to the return in Austria in July .

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Well done on the mullet - you did well to land it despite the mooring ropes.
They are the most infuriating of fish - I have yet to catch an Irish one - but maybe this year

Ya but its so worth it when you do hook then its my first ever what a fight much better that the bass i have caught

By the way rock hunter what do you mean an irish one???

well done on the mullet which was harder to catch because of the ropes,nasty when they are around but what can you do

I went to castletownshend on the 9th of august about an hour b4 high tide... i had a cracking sized mullet i used a treble from a spinner on some white bread and 4 or 5 casts in (6ft in to water 2 ft from edge of boat ramp). i couldnt get a picture as i hadnt used the phone before had kids running around standing on my rod, boats coming in etc

Just wanted to say thanks Wilky if i hadn't seen your report i wouldn't have taken some bread with me.
Popping down there for an hour this evening to have another go bought a bubble float just in case they are topping further out and will suss out this camera on phone b4 leaving.

Tight Lines

Anthony

Glad to be of help