conemara 24june

Fri Jun 26, 2009 7:20 pm

People:conor, steve and myself!

Duration:17h - 23h


Weather:sunny and warm, breezy

Bait:sandeel,lugs,maq,squid

Rigs:?????????

Results:6 species: dragonet (spelling????), ray , dogfish, pollack,whitening, maquerel


HI!
As I've got the best english of the 3 of us I've been designed to do the report!

So we arrived at 5 (high tide 7pm) lovely day very warm but windy as well

I started by a dragonet on lugs

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then Conor had 2 rays (3.5lbs) one afer the other on maquerel
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He then lost a big fish...????big ray???

a small pollack for me on maquerel (float fishing)
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then a couple of whitening for steeve and Conor
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and it was time for the doggies festival.....except for me!
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Conor had a go on spinning and got a couple of maq
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And at last....with a lot of effort and a lot of help from conor.....I got my first dog!!!!
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I had a very nice day thanks guys!!

alex

Re: conemara 24june

Fri Jun 26, 2009 7:38 pm

well done sounds like ye had a great session

Re: conemara 24june

Fri Jun 26, 2009 7:58 pm

well done lads

Re: conemara 24june

Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:02 pm

nothing like running around connemara half naked.. well at least i wore jeans, them French lads go the extra bit of distance... :shock:

frenchvisitor wrote:As I've got the best english of the 3 of us I've been designed to do the report!


cheeky sod....

frenchvisitor wrote:He then lost a big fish...????big ray???


think it was more a big stone.. very big stone :P :P

great to meet up and hopefully monday or tuesday will follow through :wink:

Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:21 pm

Your more than welcome Alex i'll bring some snakes back from wexford for mondays trip.... Glad you got your 1st doggie might have another try to get you a ray before you leave... 3rd time in succession getting into a really big fish off that mark that i couldn't get land... This one was defo a ray by the way it dived to the bottom oh well There's always next time.....

Re: conemara 24june

Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:59 pm

well done lads nice fishing at least you(frenchvristor)will have some good memories to take home with you :D :D

Re: conemara 24june

Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:33 am

well done,nice to get 6 species,good luck with the hunt for ray,if you don't get one with conor you can try my mark in clifden it is producing ray now and you should have a very good chance of one
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Re: conemara 24june

Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:18 am

Well done lads,great session and plenty of fish and well done on getting your first doggie :)

Paddy

Re: conemara 24june

Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:39 pm

hi guys!

gfkelly1969 wrote:if you don't get one with conor you can try my mark in clifden it is producing ray now and you should have a very good chance of one


thanks for the offer!The problem is not the spot tho....I am just crap!!!

but let me know when you're going fishing I might have a go with you!


Conor and steve Im looking forward to the next one in a couple of days!!

Re: conemara 24june

Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:00 pm

i am hoping to go tomorrow afternoon and i can go any evening after 6 pm and don't worry about being crap i am not too good myself,if you can cast out 50 to 80 feet you will be fine,i am sure conor and steve will hook you up with a ray if they don't i will try,let me know if you want to go and i will meet up with you

Re: conemara 24june

Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:25 pm

its no ray conor - its the same skate winding you up each time - -nice fishing lads