Turbot seeking adventure Achill Island 7th to 14th aug

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People:Me the fam and joined by Determined dan on one occasion

Duration:fishing for no more than a couple of hours at a time

Tide:coming and going mainly going

Weather:from sun to heavy pissn rain and 50 mile ofshore winds

Bait:lug, mackeral and lures

Rigs:lures, flappers, pulleys

Results:pollock, crab and goby i think




Report:
headed for achill for a family holiday, rods packed , first nite checked out the local inlet and tried out a few lures for any fish hanging around, after a few casts i started geting pollock every second cast new species for the year, packed up and headed home. had intended to go fishn keel beach for turbot on monday but on arrival the surf was cracking, so boards out and surfing it was tuesday was a family day around the island with the usual shoping and then to a pier near the house where i was staying but no luck no takes tide dropping and no sandeels swiming about, wed was a disaster with 40-50mile an hr ofshore winds and driving rain so lazy day on the cards, thursday morning headed back to keel for turbot with surf and wind better h pes were high but after 5 mins with bait in the water traces were washed ashore with 5lb of weed, moved up and down the beach with no good results so packed up and went for the surfboards again, friday morning Determined dan text me to say he was up for a rock session so to a few deep water rock marks we headed, i was given a dead cert pollock lure for deep water and with conditions good i lashed it out with no success , went back to my trusty hart lures and bang fish on and between us we landed a couple of nice pollock, so the only thing about the dead cert lure is that its not sat morning i took the kids crab fishing at the pier and had them lots of crabs and another new species a goby I think if anyone would like to confirm for me it would be great. a fun holiday had by all with plenty of pollock on offer and some new species great to catch up with a member from the site and hope to go back and get my turbot

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Good man justin, looked like everybody enjoyed themselvs

sorry i couldnt make it back justin

Nice Report Justin and by all accounts a good holiday even through there were a few rough days in the middle of it.
I was speaking with Dan over the weekend and he mentioned you had met up and had a few Pollock alright.
Well done on getting a few.....

Mick

Nice fishing. The fish in the photo at the top of the report is a tadpole fish ie. lesser forkbeard. Some of the lads on here would be better at species id and might back me up but i'm pretty sure that's what it is. Not a very common catch so fair play.

yes evan699, you are correct, that's a tadpole fish http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/fish ... 20fish.htm
pretty rare catch, so well done Justin, good report and pics too

well justin it sound like you had a good time and well done on the pollock
did you not try for the conger in the harbour?

hi justin . good report and pics. it was good to meet up and hopefully the next session we will target the other species we were after. all the best and tight lines.

sorry i couldnt make it back justin

maybe next time Brian, had fun tho

Well done on the new species Justin , pity about the weed, but you done well to get out,,,,,,,the Tadpole fish looks like a blenny to me

Hi Lads
Just in reference to the Tadpole fish..see below link to one caught by Drew of the site.

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Leave it up to you to decide....

Mick

shanny (blennius pholis) it's breeding season for those wee guys at the mo. during this time the males darken down from green to almost black and their lips turn white to attract females. easily mistaken for a tadpole fish thow

shanny (blennius pholis) it's breeding season for those wee guys at the mo. during this time the males darken down from green to almost black and their lips turn white to attract females. easily mistaken for a tadpole fish thow

seems more like the description allrite, which ever one it was it had a set of teeth like a horse and was very agressive feeding like a rockling

thanks for all the replies lads, you all have a lovely back yard over in the west.

Nice fishing. The fish in the photo at the top of the report is a tadpole fish ie. lesser forkbeard.

no it's not

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