north connemara co,galway 23rd oct 2010

People:myself

Duration:12:00 to 19:00

Tide:high 18:05 4.9m

Weather:nice between the showers and light wind from the north

Bait:lug,mackerel,sandeel,squid

Rigs:2 hook flapper,feathers,pully

Results:1 thornback ray,2 pollack,1 dogfish




Report:I decided to try find some new marks around north connemara,first I headed to a pier in kilary harbour and there were about 50 scuba divers in the water off the pier,it was temping to put on a 10/0 but I scrapped that idea and hit off to another road I saw on google earth,I was about half way down it when I met another car and had to reverse about 1km back to the main road so scrapped that idea as well
I picked a spot along the main road beside kilary harbour and set up,I got bites from the start first fish was a dogfish

kilary harbour dog.jpg

then I found out where the ray go when they leave clifden on their winter holidays when I landed this fellow

kilary harbour ray.jpg

tried the feathers for awhile and only had one small pollack

kilary harbour pollack.jpg

I packed up and headed to a rock mark and tried for some wrasse,I had a few bites but no hook ups,I then headed to a beach and tried it for about 1hr but no bites,must have been from all the fresh water flowing in
I headed to another pier and had one more pollack before I decided to call it a night

kilary harbour.jpg

kilary harbour 5.jpg

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Nice fishing and great pictures

well done ger good to see a ray again was it big killary you were fishing

Nice Going Gerry, Great to see a Ray as I say they are getting scarce this time of year.
Quality pictures as well.

Mick

Nice fishing and great pictures

thanks razor2

well done ger good to see a ray again was it big killary you were fishing

thanks alan,yes it was the big kilary i fished,i tried near the ray mark you fished on Sunday and not a bite on the bait rod

Nice Going Gerry, Great to see a Ray as I say they are getting scarce this time of year.
Quality pictures as well.

Mick

thanks mick,it was good to see the ray,i never got one this late in the year before,probably a few hanging around the deeper marks still
I am very happy with the way the photos turned out,not bad for a camera phone

good to see the odd thornie still knocking about gerry.well done

Well done gerry, that looks like a nice place to fish