Lough Swilly

People: me

Duration: 3/4hr

Tide:1hr down 3hr up

Weather:very very calm

Bait: snadeels

Rigs: clipped up and over running ledger

Results:rays and doggies

hi lads,

haven't reported in a while, mainly been small bass catching over the last few weeks so decided to head for a ray session.
sat night passed and i had no plans and the misses was away out on the sauce so at 11.30pm i decided it was time for a fix!! i dont normally fish on this mark on big spring tides because its nearly like uptiding when the curren begins to run so can be hard to keep bottom - but it worked that night!!
packed the car and headed to lough swilly, flew up the road and landed in record time, got immediately set up as low water as approaching fast on this big tide.
the Min the baits hit the water it was ray, doggies, doggies, rays, doggies rays and so on. great nights sport with rays reaching the 6lb 6 mark and the doggies to 2lb.
as this was an off the cuff session I'd only two packs of sandeels and by the time i'd hauled in the doggies and rays in quick succession i was soon running low on bait, plus i'd the crabs on full attack.
got a quick pic of one of the rays but all very similar in markings and returned safely to grow bigger for me.
was a great quick fire session and i lost count of how many fish i caught which is always a bonus.
regards
dave

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Great result for an "impulse" session; how often does a well-prepared and planned session fall flat?!

great session there, good to see many rays at one night, well done

Great result for an "impulse" session; how often does a well-prepared and planned session fall flat?!

thanks johnwest, totally agree with you - i took a few chaps up over my more preferred tides etc and only 3 ray between 8 rods that session.

great session there, good to see many rays at one night, well done

thanks grady - nice to get a session with plenty of them, its a good workout

dave

nice one dave
gotta love impromptu sessions like that

well done dave great session hope to be on the raymonds myself next saturday if things go to plan

thanks. you coming up this way? if not best of luck with your plans.
dave

well done dave great session hope to be on the raymonds myself next saturday if things go to plan

thanks bud - hows the form?
dave

nice one dave
gotta love impromptu sessions like that

Well done nice to see them again!!

thanks. you coming up this way? if not best of luck with your plans.
dave

well done dave great session hope to be on the raymonds myself next saturday if things go to plan

no mate heading over west to killary

excellent stuff 6lb 6oz lovley ray, made up for the smaller fish you were catching in your recent sessions even though they were bass!nice one
tightlines
fergal

Nice going dave, sounds like a great session...

Thats good fishing. Well done.

just as well you got a go at them when you did dave. talking to tom and don. 2 trawlers working the channel right up the back stretch ffs! the place will be sweeped clean for a month or 2 now

ah ffs - thats me done with posting reports!!!!!! i know for a fact trawlermen are on here leaching marks of anglers!!
posted a report a while ago about a decent bass and low and behold the boats where back and every part time angler in the north ended up out fishing that week. i'm sick to death of lazy so and so's lurking round the web!!!

thanks for the info

dave

just as well you got a go at them when you did dave. talking to tom and don. 2 trawlers working the channel right up the back stretch ffs! the place will be sweeped clean for a month or 2 now

and whats worse is the rays are laying sacks at the mine too!!!!!! so they've just come along and swept the young too!!!!

dave

Well done nice to see them again!!

thanks
or not as the case may be - from what al said below i'm assuming the rough weather has brought our trawlers into the lough.
dave

excellent stuff 6lb 6oz lovley ray, made up for the smaller fish you were catching in your recent sessions even though they were Bass!nice one
tightlines
fergal

thanks
lol sorry wasnt meaning to sound like the bass were no use - just not much fight out of them wee ones.
dave

fantastic result for a spur of the moment fishing trip, hope the trawlers havent cleared the whole channel out, but remember there's more than one fishing mark in the swilly that holds the thornies