Shannon Estuary, 18-march-2011
Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:36 pm
People: Me
Duration: 9:45 am to 12.50 pm
Tide: 10:34 (0.30m) 16:51 (5.10m)
Weather: Sunny with NW wind at times
Bait: Mack, eel and squid
Rigs: Penel clip down and pulley 3/0 and 2/0
Results: 6 ray, 9lb, 8.5lb, 7lb, 3.5lb, 7lb, 3.5lb
Report: Things have been getting in the way of me getting out and to be honest picking up wee dabs and whites doesn't excite me. A big tide and the day off work with very little fresh coming down I decided to try for an early ray. First cast gave me a light bites on both rods. THinking it was whites I left the bait out and then saw more significant tugs and I was in with a hard fight and the 9lb ray to eel squid.
Things went quiet for low water but as the tide came in I starting getting bites again and it fished until after 12pm with some missed bites.As the the tide ran so did the weed but I fished through this with out to much hassle even though it looked awful. When the weed had ran through the fishing died.
Donagh
Duration: 9:45 am to 12.50 pm
Tide: 10:34 (0.30m) 16:51 (5.10m)
Weather: Sunny with NW wind at times
Bait: Mack, eel and squid
Rigs: Penel clip down and pulley 3/0 and 2/0
Results: 6 ray, 9lb, 8.5lb, 7lb, 3.5lb, 7lb, 3.5lb
Report: Things have been getting in the way of me getting out and to be honest picking up wee dabs and whites doesn't excite me. A big tide and the day off work with very little fresh coming down I decided to try for an early ray. First cast gave me a light bites on both rods. THinking it was whites I left the bait out and then saw more significant tugs and I was in with a hard fight and the 9lb ray to eel squid.
Things went quiet for low water but as the tide came in I starting getting bites again and it fished until after 12pm with some missed bites.As the the tide ran so did the weed but I fished through this with out to much hassle even though it looked awful. When the weed had ran through the fishing died.
Donagh
Re: Shannon Estuary, 18-march-2011
Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:43 pm
Well done Donagh. Excellent result for so early in the season.
Re: Shannon Estuary, 18-march-2011
Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:52 pm
Great Fishing Donagh 
Re: Shannon Estuary, 18-march-2011
Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:56 pm
shite fishing
nice one man!
nice one man!
Re: Shannon Estuary, 18-march-2011
Fri Mar 18, 2011 5:33 pm
great to see the shannon estuary throwing up good ray numbers again.well done
Re: Shannon Estuary, 18-march-2011
Fri Mar 18, 2011 5:41 pm
super fishing well done 
looks like your in for a good year
looks like your in for a good year
Re: Shannon Estuary, 18-march-2011
Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:28 pm
Excellent result 
well done!
well done!
Re: Shannon Estuary, 18-march-2011
Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:19 pm
Best news of the week!
Re: Shannon Estuary, 18-march-2011
Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:10 pm
Well done Donogh, good to see the ray back on. Might rethink my west clare trip this weekend 
Re: Shannon Estuary, 18-march-2011
Sat Mar 19, 2011 11:17 am
10LB would have made it a great session(next time)
welldone
welldone
Re: Shannon Estuary, 18-march-2011
Sat Mar 19, 2011 11:22 am
Great session there Donagh. I hope to get out on my side of the estuary tomorrow but there will be a fair rip to contend with, I might try one of those little bays.
Re: Shannon Estuary, 18-march-2011
Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:43 pm
well done mate nice session were they all thornies any photos ?
Re: Shannon Estuary, 18-march-2011
Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:30 pm
tight lines wrote:well done mate nice session were they all thornies any photos ?
Very rare to get a ray other than a thornback from the estuary so all thornbacks. I didn't bring a camera but I did get a picture of one of the rays on my mobile plus a couple of fingers. I've enough photos of thornies to last me a lifetime anyway.
Re: Shannon Estuary, 18-march-2011
Sun Mar 20, 2011 2:24 pm
Finally after years of messing around I can download images from my mobile. This is one of the ray I caught pluse me fingers and a foot
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