Dingle 24/25 Oct 2012 three specimens.

People:me

Duration:3 sessions

Tide:neaps

Weather:blustery north easterlys

Bait:razor, frozen peeler and sandeel

Rigs:2 hook clipped, 3/0 pulley pennells

Results:small eyed (painted), thornback ray and dabs.




Report:The plan was to head ro Dingle to target a specimen small eyed ray and dab. Glad to stay i achieved both. Drove down on Wednesday afternoon and headed to the first mark in search of small eyed ray. Setup and first cast i was into a small eyed, went about 6 lbs and things looked good. Then not another touch in an increasingly blustery wind until close to 21.00 when i had a big pull on one of the rods. After a bit of a tussle an 11lb 1oz ray was safely landed, winspan 59cm. That was the last bite of the night so after another hour headed to the cottage as i planned an early start in the morning in search of big dab. Up bright and early and on the mark well before dawn. Set up with clipped paternosters and size 1 hooks baited with razor or peeler crab and waited... Not a touch for the first 3 hours and then 2 fish in 2 casts both went about 37cm and weighed 1.35 and 1.45 lbs respectively. One of the dab took the razor the other peeler. Last cast i had a small thornie about 4 lbs on razor. Packed up shortly after and headed for something to eat. That night i headed back to the small eyed ray mark for a 3 hour session before driving home and although no specimens i had another 2 small eyed, one 5 lbs and the other 6.5 lbs.

Some lovely fish there, much of a struggle from the big painted ray?

Good fishing there Fmcn.
I think your second photo is a flounder.?
Well done on the specimen Painted ray.
Never been to Dingle, seems to be worth while,
Will have to give it a go sometime.
Cheers.

I think your second photo is a flounder.?

Be god it's not, tis a dab

thats some Mighty going Congrats on 3 beautiful Specimens

Beautiful fish.well done

Great fishing nice one.

Very impressed

Some beauts there,,3 specimens in one session,,,,that's commendable

Great when a plan comes together,some great fish well done

super fishing mate dingle has being good to you this year well done

Well done. Think We fished beside u the night u got the big ray. We were in black jeep. We got no ray. Had a few bass and flounder

nice fishing well done

Some lovely fish there, much of a struggle from the big painted ray?

Big ray went well. They do motor sometimes. Excepting the biinitial bite which is just a long pull, once hooked easy to mistake for a big bass.

Well done. Think We fished beside u the night u got the big ray. We were in black jeep. We got no ray. Had a few Bass and flounder

Could have. A few guys in a couple of cars did arrive.

super fishing mate dingle has being good to you this year well done

It has been put i know the area pretty well. More importantly i know the right conditions for the marks.

To all the rest thanks for the comments.

I stand corrected