clifden bay co galway 08 august 2009

Sun Aug 09, 2009 1:23 pm

People:myself

Duration:17:00 to 22:30

Tide:high 19:28 5m

Weather:dry and light wind from the west

Bait:sand eel,lug,limpets,sprats,feathers

Rigs:3 hook mackerel feathers,float rig

Results:1 dog fish,9 mackerel,10 pollack




Report:tried a spot that i met corbyeire and rolly at last monday first had a dog on sand eel rebaited and 10 mins later had 2 mackerel to the sand eel then changed to feathers and had 6 mackerel and 5 pollack,all the pollack were small,about 1lb weight
decided to move back to another pollack rock and first cast had a full string of mackerel after that the mackerel stopped but the pollack kept biteing,had 5 more pollack the biggest about 2lbs

first time this year i had a session as good as this,pity it had to come and half the year over :roll:

still happy to see the mackerel in,time to stock up the fridge :D
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Re: clifden bay co galway 08 august 2009

Sun Aug 09, 2009 2:54 pm

Very good session alot of action well done the Pollack give a good fight great fun to catch hope you get some more sessions like that.
Last edited by FisherKing on Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Re: clifden bay co galway 08 august 2009

Sun Aug 09, 2009 5:08 pm

nice fishing lads :) .where abouts in clifden bay were u.any ray turned up on the sky road this year?

Re: clifden bay co galway 08 august 2009

Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:23 am

great session!! im still on species number 1 with wrasse :P

Re: clifden bay co galway 08 august 2009

Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:54 am

nice fishing gf,glad to see the mackys in up there too :D :D

Re: clifden bay co galway 08 august 2009

Tue Aug 11, 2009 1:30 am

FisherKing wrote:Very good session alot of action well done the Pollack give a good fight great fun to catch hope you get some more sessions like that.
great fighters all right,i love catching them
doggie3131 wrote:nice fishing gf,glad to see the mackys in up there too :D :D
first time i caught that many this year,i didn't see any big shoal around
asarmstrong wrote:nice fishing lads :) .where abouts in clifden bay were u.any ray turned up on the sky road this year?
south side of the bay,plenty of ray on the sky road but I don't fish for them too often now because I am sick of catching them now :lol:
hunt4the wrote:great session!! im still on species number 1 with wrasse :P
if you want to get a second species head out to clifden and i will get you hooked in to a ray and maybe you can you can teach me how to get a wrasse :lol:

Re: clifden bay co galway 08 august 2009

Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:19 am

Great session, well done, still to get a mack myself this year :roll: