WRASSE & POLLACK CO. SLIGO

People: Myself and the Girlfriend

Duration: 8 Hrs

Tide: Low Tide

Weather: Day 1: Windy and Rough , Day 2: Slight Breeze, Calm

Bait: Lugworm & Spinner

Rigs: Single Hook with Weight

Results: Day 1: 1 Corkwing Wrasse, 6 Ballan Wrasse - Day 2: 4 Ballan Wrasse, 3 Pollack, 2 Mackerel


Report: Wed 12th & Thurs 13th August

Day 1

As the weather wasn’t too bad, we decided to head to the local beach to dig some Lug, & then set off to the first rock mark which is usually very good for Wrasse & Pollack with easy access to deep water at low tide.

When we arrived there was a fairly strong North Westerly wind so set up in the most sheltered area we could find, so on with the Lug, dropped down alongside the rock into a deep gully.

A few bites later hooked a small Corkwing Wrasse followed by alot of small Ballan. After being plagued by small Wrasse for an hour changed to a bigger hook. Then got some strong bites hooked a very good Ballan which is my biggest of the year weighing in at 4 lb . It gave a great scrap. For the first day very happy - good few fish landed.

Day 2

We returned to the same destination, there was only a slight breeze ideal spinning conditions so on with the lure & on the second cast hooked a great Pollack about 20 feet out from the rock edge, it fought very hard all the way in but just as I was about to land him the hook came out. I estimate him to be about 9 – 10 lb. The best battle I’ve ever had with a Pollack. Was raging to see him swim off after, but you win some & lose some

Spent another 20 minutes spinning, nothing so went after Wrasse again got a few around the 2 lb mark but no big ones about. When late evening came we packed up & headed to another rock mark about a quarter of a mile away.

After a bit of a hike started spinning, got two Mackerel, one medium, one large, it then went quiet for a while until it started getting dark, then the Pollack were on the feed mostly small but managed to catch one weighing 3lb. All in all very good fishing .

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Nice wrasse, and bad luck on the pollack

some great lookin fish there, say that first wrasse was a battle and a halF!

Great wrasse session. Commiserations on the big pollock, but hopefully he was the first of the autumn run of big ones.

Nice Wrasse, good session, hard luck on the Pollack

nice goin fisherking

that first wrasse is an absolute cracker!

unlucky on the big fella - it'll make fishin there again a wee bit more excitin knowin there are fish that size about.


good luck davy

nice one Fisherking lovely Wrasse sligo could be coming good again !!

Well done Fisherking some nice looking Wrasse there,the 1st 1 is a thumper

Paddy

nice one fisherking, good couple of days fishing in gods county, Nice wrasse bad luck on the pollack but they'll come again

warren

Nice wrasse, and bad luck on the pollack

Cheers Vamper

some great lookin fish there, say that first wrasse was a battle and a halF!

Cheers spindlefist it give a mighty Battle.

Great wrasse session. Commiserations on the big pollock, but hopefully he was the first of the autumn run of big ones.

Cheers Hugo hopefull the big ones will keep coming.

Nice Wrasse, good session, hard luck on the Pollack

Cheers fenster.

nice goin fisherking

that first wrasse is an absolute cracker!

unlucky on the big fella - it'll make fishin there again a wee bit more excitin knowin there are fish that size about.


good luck davy

Cheers davy cant wait to get back there again.

nice one Fisherking lovely Wrasse sligo could be coming good again !!

Cheers yorkshire man fingers crossed it continues.

Well done Fisherking some nice looking Wrasse there,the 1st 1 is a thumper

Paddy

Cheers paddy

nice one fisherking, good couple of days fishing in gods county, Nice wrasse bad luck on the pollack but they'll come again

warren

Cheers Wozza il be back after the big ones during the week.

hard luck with the pollack but still a nice selection of fish,great photos lovely colours on the wrasse

hard luck with the pollack but still a nice selection of fish,great photos lovely colours on the wrasse

Cheers gfkelly the Wrasse are hard bet everyone you catch is different.

Nice going well done 1st Wrasse is a beaut

Nice going well done 1st Wrasse is a beaut

Cheers saltydog.