Andy's Connemara report Aug 09

Well I finally made it to Leenane last week and boy was the weather up to no good. Spent a good while watching sideways rain out of the cottage window or running to and from the pub in the downpours !

Anyway, after much research and some really helpful info from Gerry (gfkelly1969) for which many thanks I was ready for some serious fishing.

I grabbed the first chance last Monday to get out on John Brittains Blue Water and although it was really rough we made it out to Innishboffin and soon had a box full of Mackies. However it was too rough to anchor out there and no good for Shark so we headed closer in to Ballynakill harbour and fished under Tully mountain where there had been reports of Skate in the commercial boys nets.

It was not to be a Skate day but boy did we catch, I lost count of the number of Rays, Dogs and Huss...all in all a great day and good company - at least I only dropped a knife over the side this year and not a rod !


Tuesday and Wednesday it rained and blew a hooley but I manage to get down to Little Killary and find some shelter but little action other than some Mackeral



Thursday and Friday Hurricane Bill arrived and the wind was just impossible so that was it - months of build up only for the weather to limit the amount of fishing I could manage in the week. Anyways, a great time was had, the Guinness flowed in Gaynors and the Irish potholes were as challenging as ever.

Thanks again to those who provided info and here's hoping I can get back over soon.
Andy

well done andy on the fish you caught,its a pity you caught the tail end of the hurricane,its not nice when all those months of planning get screwed up because of the weather,especially in august!

Nice session well done.

Was out that way myself for the weekend, the weather sunday was fairly rotten, sorry to hear you didnt get as much fishing in as you wanted, but atleast you got a good few fish from the boat.

good to see you got a few fish ken . this feckin weather has put the kiibosh on my last few outings too i'm still waiting for the summer to happen yet but at least you got some fishing done

only glad to help with the advice andy but i think i forgot to tell you to bring a rain coat
i am glad to hear you got plenty of fish from the boat,pity the shore fishing was a bit messed up at least the Guinness was plentiful ,hope you have better luck the next time you are over