dingle, land of rain and Pollock sun30-tues1

People:Meself and Eefs

Duration: SUn- tues, bout an hour or so each day

Tide:Various levels

Weather:sidewards sheet rain and epic winds..

Bait:sandeel, mack, jelly worms and shimmer eels

Rigs:float, pulley, conger, freeline..

Results:POLLOCK, pollock, pollock

Report: So decided to shrug off the shackles of repsonibility for a few days and headed off to dingle, picked up 2 new Rhinos in ABC, the traveller for Eefs as she only fishes when I make her, and I got the 9ft specialist, these rods will now live in my car.
THe adventure started on way down, as driin between roscrea and nenagh, the van in front decided it did not need a rear left wheel, kicked it off and began skiddin all over th gaff, til it rested in the oncoming lane!! luckily we were far enough back from it and no cars were approaching as it happened. the wheel came to a stop bout 300 yards further up. scary stuff..
Anyway, back we head to fishing, got to dingle to be welcomed by a squall blowing... and it only gave up once, that was tues night when we decided to go for a few scoops instead of fishing, always the way.After being cowardly and opting for Hostel room insteadin off settin up our tnet/canoe in the front garden of hostel, we spun out to Brandon Creek, as winds were bloing over it. Conger rod out, and I freelined sandeel, eefs had float with MAck on... nothing going for free lining, but eefs got a nice 48cm Pollock in close, beat me on this session!!
This fish had a huge bite scar on it, on,y 2 puncture wounds, but you could see lost scales in the shape of the jaws that attempted to eat it, were wide, not narrow like a seal, no idea, but thought maybe a close call with a porbeagle? Had a few takes on the conger rod, but failed to hook into any.

Her pollock went back and we went off to dry off and get some kip.

Awoke Monday to more of the same, crap weather.. But it dried up a bit later, and I was out by a favourite Rock mark, thought it'd be unfishablke, but thankfully it had it's back to the wind, so we were protected and the sweel was not too bad. tide was bout an hour after high so Knew it was less dangerous, but still didnl;t venture down to the lowest platform, and glad we didn;t as, after fishing maybe 20 mins, a sweel came outta nowhere and put this under 4ft of water!! we'd have been ballsed as it wis one ya'd clamber onto. we instead fished bout 20 ft above the sea, favouring possible lost fish, than lost life. This mark did not dissappoint. Eefs was back on float with sandeel, I opted for sidewinder sandeels freelined. THe pollock were on top form! had several hits before hooking up,first was small, (see pic) , then next one medium, 2lb mark, then I got a whopper right at the base of the bottom platform just as I was gonna lift clear of water, fish hit the eel and took off, great to see a fish take line.. got a decent fight outta him, and my heart was in my mouth liftin him up to us, but got him up safelty, and only in time as it snapped line in my hand on our platform. Was 1 oz short of 5lb. Became dinner,. Eeefs meanwhile had 3 pollock , between 2- 3 lb. I had a final cast before the rains and as the jellyworm left the water a pollock threw himself after it, gettin airborne, funny to see.

wed was Crap weather , change of wind direction but no loss of blow, so we opted again for brandon creek after trying fahan, ballydavid and a few other places. Only had a tiny little pollock, but such is fishing.

tight lines

Daire

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some more... three bears style

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they say he who dares winds and boy have we had some well done on braving the elements both of you they are good sized pollock and hauling them safely up 20 ft is much better than rescue services hauling both of you up they seem to have given a good account of them selves fair play to you both and a great report

Some nice Pollock there and lovely photo's

latex gloves, people say im kinky

Hard luck on not gettin the monster you wanted mate but some nice pollock and ye didnt give in to the crappy weather either, well done to eefs too btw

my latex gloves are essentials when spendin a few days in cars/tents/hostels...
saves everything from the whack of Mack!

Plus the fish like em, makes em feel...special

Great fishing guys well done. Nice to see another woman enjoying her fishing as much as I do

Great Pollack there nice going, It's tough lifting the big ones up the high rocks well done.

well done to the pair of you you've got some well deserved lovely Pollock there and a big thumbs up for avoiding all the dangerous moments Mr. Monk - smashing report too

hahha, mr.Monk, nice reference, I do actually carry baby wipes at all times too, and antibacterial cleaner.....


Anyone ever caught pollock or such with huge bites on em? that bite mark was pretty impressive

we cought a couple of big whiting with bite marks on the Clare Dragoon last Saturday during sharking off Loop Head, might have been blues hunting them - but that's only a guess.

Well done Eefs and Dáire nice Pollack

well done... nice report and fair play for braving the weather.

Kev

Great report there mate, nice pics and some nice lookin' fish there.

Great report Daire, yourself and Eefs certainly had some great Pollock fishing down there, well done.

latex gloves, people say im kinky

no people say your a fish kissin weirdo as for the fish word IS spreading

Anyone ever caught pollock or such with huge bites on em? that bite mark was pretty impressive

heres a cod with a chunk missing from it fishing out of youghal last september.......well done on the fishies and err ...the surgical gloves

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ugh, looks like a lesser spotted lepper cod....

ugh, looks like a lesser spotted lepper cod....

no wonder cod stocks are down how can they breed going around like that