South Connemara 14.10.09

People: nige, stevecrow74 & myself

Duration: 17:15 - 00:15

Tide: HT @ 15:20

Weather: T-shirt stuff

Bait: Sandeel, Mackerel & Squid

Rigs: 3 Hook Loop, 3 Hook Flappers, 1 Up 1 Down , 1 Hook Long Flowing

Results: Doggies, Huss, Conger, Whiting, Coalies.




Report: Nige faniced a crack at some raymonds so we set off for Connemara. The blues skies and sunshine led us to to a beer garden on route for a quick pint bottle with ice We got fishing shortly after 17:00 steve was first in with a doggie then he set up his spining rod and starting fishing close in as we had spotted some garfish on the way out and thought they might be knocking around. Steve was in again with some whiting on the spinning rod i was up next with a whiting coalie double. Steve then starting hammering whitting and coalies think he ended up with 12 coalies and 14 whiting good few counters in there too... Nige got in on the act with some whiting and coalies i think he clocked up 6/7 of each. We got a run of dogs with 11 for myself 9 for steve and 3 for nige. I had a small huss and lost a much better one about 10ft out he bit through the 30lb snood just as nige was heading off i got a strap conger. Myself and steve fished on for another hr or so with steve getting a small huss and me some more doggies. Enjoyable session pity about the lack of ray but plenty to keep us busy all the same.

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well done conor,still fishing! i thought you would be knackered by now,myself and john hit the mark we fished with ye three nights ago,fish a cast but no poor cod you have a pm.

pitty the ray didnt come out and play for us hopefully will have bigger and better this weekend

well done lads nice session,pity about the ray,next time try a 3 hook mackerel feather rig with a good chunk of mackerel i find it works best,i also notice that the ray don't seem to feed after dark,have ye ever caught them after dark?

ya have caught them after dark

nice session guys, pity the Thornie's didn't come out to play with this cold weather moving in and the water temp; dropping i think they are starting to move out, well up here at fahan anyway there is still a few being got on down the lough around buncranna pier. so yesterday i fished a mark closer to the mouth of the lough swilly for and hour and got four decent ones around the 5 to 6lb mark.

PS, nice pic's conor, and good to see steve back out again, hows his leg now

well done lads nice session,pity about the ray,next time try a 3 hook mackerel feather rig with a good chunk of mackerel i find it works best,i also notice that the ray don't seem to feed after dark,have ye ever caught them after dark?

Howdy Gerry the Ray will still feed after dark. In fact some of the best Ray i've caught have been after dark and quite a few up your next of the woods in Clifden Bay

nice session guys, pity the Thornie's didn't come out to play with this cold weather moving in and the water temp; dropping i think they are starting to move out, well up here at fahan anyway there is still a few being got on down the lough around buncranna pier. so yesterday i fished a mark closer to the mouth of the lough swilly for and hour and got four decent ones around the 5 to 6lb mark.

PS, nice pic's conor, and good to see steve back out again, hows his leg now

Hey Don thats nice fishing you had all decent sizes there This time last year we had a good few Ray on that mark, there's a lot of pressure on them from tangle nets in the area lately which isn't good. We'll be fishing it again soon so fingers crossed there'll be a few caught be nice to see there's some left in it as there's an awful lot been dumped close by

Well done lads, you're on fire at the moment, Steve must be making up for lost time, going to try for a conger myself soon, fingers crossed

37fish for me.. 14 whiting, 13 coalfish, 9 dogfish and a huss...
good to see I havent lost my touch..

Don, my knee is getin there.. still need to build up all the muscle I lost from the year of not being able to use it...

Gfkelly, some of my best ray fishin has been after dark, as the lads said..

glad to hear that your on the mend steve, nice one

cracking session guys plenty there to keep you all busy