fahan thornies 24.06.10

People:me

Duration:8.30-10.30

Tide:falling

Weather:warm, calm

Bait:mackeral

Rigs:pulley, flapper

Results:3 Thornback Ray, Dogfish, flounder plaice hybrid




Report:Was meant to be fishing with mick thios evening but his plans changed so I headed down to fahan for a few hours to keep in touch with the thornies, beautiful evening and the water was like a millpond, apart from all the boats coming back to the marina. First rod was in the water fairly quick and it wasn't long before the ratchet gave a few gentle clicks, but i couldnt feel any weight and assumed it was just the weed that sometimes plagues this mark. When I pulled in I had a very small 11oz thornie, small but of the mark and blank saved. Next fish was a spotty flounder/plaice The plaice have those identifiable hard knobbly bumps on top of their head and this fish while it looked like a flounder only had 2 hard bumps on top of its head , any help with this id apreciated
Shortly after this both rods started jumping at the same time and I landed a thornie on each, a bit better this time, 4lb12oz and 5lb1oz so after a quick unhooke and photo both went back and seemed to tell their mates not to touch the mackeral as it was jaggy. nothing else but a doggy after that.

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Nice session

Dont know about the hybrid but personally i'd call that a flounder

great catch there pretty rays well done

Its a flounder by the looks of it mate. Here's a pic showing the nodules you are looking for on a plaice.

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Well done on the rays, nice to see a few more coming about. The other is most certainly a flounder.

well done a couple of nice rays there.

well done a couple of nice rays there.

Hey John! Remember your lucky Ray from Fahan????

Nice Fashin Lads, Keep 'er country!

nice results for a few hours fishing lcl, well done on the thornies, nice pic's too

sure do drew,how could i forget mate!!!line broke and lost fish and trace,got it next cast.jammy or what!!!!

As sure as eggs is eggs - flounder

Thats a great result for 2 hours fishing LCL. Some very nice ray there. Fair play to ya.

Nice catch, heading there again this weekend myself, prob fish off the marina wall

well done on the thornies,nice size ones as well

great fishing and cracking pics man we catch loads of spotty orange flounder through the winter months. other than the 4 boney nodules behind the eyes the are almost identicle . love the markings on the last thornie man