galway rock mark, 3rd june '11

People: myself and rolly

Duration: 14 - 21.00

Tide: high round 18.30

Weather: bizarre, roasting 2 mins from venue but then a strange sea fog covered the mark for day, had to wear a jumper!
got a good bit windy later round HW

Bait: manky mac, squid, sandeel

Rigs: 3 hook flappers, 2 hook clipped

Results: 1 ray, 11 dogs; rolly 12 dogs 1 mackeral

Report: was expecting a glorious day in the sunshine and to give it about 3/4 hours - but the sun was blocked by the fog

when we got down there, there was 2 english lads that had got nothing - they stayed on an hour and blanked - as did we catching nothing

about 30mins after they left rolly got a dog and then i got a dog - we had a few each for about 45mins and then it went dead again

nothing for about 1.5hrs and was thinking of heading when rolly said lets wait for high water - a few more doggies turned up and then i had the bite i had been waiting for - the pull was so different - even to the doggie/spider crab combo i pulled up

it was a female around 3.5lbs - she had an egg case protruding from her

set her back on her way - now rolly definietly wanted to stay longer

we pulled in a few more dogs but no ray - at this point the 2 feeney brothers arrived

and wouldnt you know it, chris first cast pulls in a ray

in the mean time kaylem was setting up the bbq and after 6 hours those burgers were a godsend - thank you, thank you, thank you

rolly then got a mack on the bottom - we thought this fresh bait might get the ray feeding - but no it was more doggies

tiredness got the better of us and we headed

think the 2 feeneys had a blast of dogs and chris added a dab, whiting, 3 beardy to his species hunt

glad i got the ray but it was hard got!

Well done on the ray Brian, also nice when food is delivered

nice one on the ray i guess what they say"there,s a ray among the dogs"might bear some truth in it WOOF WOOF
TIGHTLINES
ferg

thanks lads - youd know the catering was in the feeney blood

i was so glad of the grub i was annoying them thanking them so much - fair play to them!

Nice session Brian

nice going brian. good write up. its great when the take away is delivered. . well done on the session. .

Not a bad session at all lads and surely the catering made it all the sweeter Happy days

Haha!
Your more then welcome, we were hardly going to a few hours without eating and we always bring an absolute pile of food!
Fishing was good, i ended up with 17 dogs,ray,dab,whiting and a 3 bearded in the end, was happy with that for 3 hours fishing!

nice going lads not bad fishing either

fish and eggcase - better late than never

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Well done Brian, great to get the ray

nice session brian,,,a welcome site the shackle up i,d say,,,

well done Brian nice session,that mark is producing well,if I knew the feeney brothers were doing the catering I would have got them to drop up a bit of grub to myself and the lads on the beach

well done Brian nice session,that mark is producing well,if I knew the feeney brothers were doing the catering I would have got them to drop up a bit of grub to myself and the lads on the beach

Ah i didnt know that was you down there! Did ye get much?

well done Brian nice session,that mark is producing well,if I knew the feeney brothers were doing the catering I would have got them to drop up a bit of grub to myself and the lads on the beach

Ah i didnt know that was you down there! Did ye get much?

we only had got a few small small flounder,James had a couple of good knocks but lost the fish on the way,the crack was good even if the fishing wasn't had a few nice flounder on that beach before