local donegal rock mark

People:me and mick

Duration:4.00-8.00pm

Tide:dropping

Weather: gentle east flutter

Bait:bluey, mackeral, sandeel, herring, squid tipping

Rigs:pulley, flapper

Results:mick 3 thornback rays, doggies galore
me 3 thornback rays, 3 doggies, 2 whiting




Report:decided on a short afternoon session just to get rid of the cabin fever that had been building up with all the recent snow and determined to get a session in before the snow comes back to our nice donegal roads . So not even the east breeze was going to detere us , we landed a good number of thornies for this time of year all between 3 and 4 lb apart from micks best which was almost a pb at 6lb 9 oz just 3 oz off his pb, the double figure ray is still eluding us both but we have identified a few more possible maks to try next year. apart from the usual pack of dogs the only other excitment was my pb whiting, and not just the pin whiting that normally annoy the bait meant for better fish, It came in at 33 cm best I've had
Soory about the poor quality photos just taken on the phone as I couldn't find the camera , mick text me to say he found it while cleaning out the van this morning
all in all a worth while trip.

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well done lads, great to get a few ray in December

Well done lads. Thats a whopper whiting!!!

Fine catch lads well done

loving the ray....

Nice ray well done

Nice bit of fishing there lads. Well done on the ray.

a good session. nice ray

Lovely ray mate. If you fancy disclosing a rock mark or two in Donegal by all means tell me in secret . Been looking to try something different to our typical Co. Antrim marks but I understand if want to keep it hush hush.

nice going. well done

thats a very nice ramond there guys well done, wish i had 1/2 doz; whiting that size yummy'

nice fishing lads well done

good to see you back out at them man great result with the winter thornies

Mmmmmm Rayyyyy.... lol

Nice ray, well done.

and to think that i posted a topic to ask if anybody could advise me on ray at this time of year around donegal. (25th Nov: 'lough swilly - fahan and buncrana - ray or bass?')
the responce i got was to forget about it, but i suppose that i did actually specify around fahan and buncrana only. goes to show that they are still here at this time of year though. now i am wandering where to get them..
so did you get these ray within swilly or somewhere else in donegal? i would love to catch my first one