Conamara 2 feb 2013

People:myself and gerty86

Duration:evening

Tide:full at 9.31pm

Weather:nice to very wet and windy

Bait:mack,sandeel,razor,lug

Rigs:pulley,two hook flappers

Results:plenty




Report:
My first fishing trip out this year , with weather not great we decided to try for a few early ray.. Hit the mark weather was nice and sunny, My first cast rod tip pulled over and then slack ray i knew, landed a nice female to around 5pound,, then sean was next with nice a male to about 2to 3 pound , only got two cast in then had to make a run for it , a big swell came up from now where and covered the rocks we where on... so next plan to a diamond of mark i have fished many times and never let me down.. from the start fish after fish for both of us,,, flounder,doggies,and pleanty of good size coalies best to myself of a 42cm coalie... Sean will add a little more plus a few photos....

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Good start to the year Lucky,,,but still no sign of them Atlantic depressions slowing down,one after another,,,
Roll on the Summer.

Nice one man it's great when a plan works out

fair play on the ray mate nice session by the sounds of it

As Alan said it was definitely 'a diamond of a mark'!! The fishing was great.. just a pity I couldn't say the same about the weather. It was a fish a cast with lug picking out the flounder and the coalies and doggies preferring sandeel. We could have continued fishing when we left, but the wind was blowing a gale and the rain was relentless making it very difficult to fish at all. Great to be out and a good spread of fish between us! Looking forward to hitting that spot again..

I have attached a couple of pics including Alan's 42cm coalie.

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As Alan said it was definitely 'a diamond of a mark'!! The fishing was great.. just a pity I couldn't say the same about the weather. It was a fish a cast with lug picking out the flounder and the coalies and doggies preferring sandeel. We could have continued fishing when we left, but the wind was blowing a gale and the rain was relentless making it very difficult to fish at all. Great to be out and a good spread of fish between us! Looking forward to hitting that spot again..

I have attached a couple of pics including Alan's 42cm coalie.

That looks like a colin to me

its a pollock,,, the lateral line off a pollock is curved as the coalie lateral line is straight.... i thought it was a coalie myself by the colour of it,, a bluie green colour....

deffo a genuine Conemara pollock there roryodonnell, only Sainsbury calls them colin
http://www.heraldscotland.com/a-fish-ca ... s-1.829912

well done lads, you get the species count going up nicely

Nice fishing lads good to see the rays back in business , I do miss the Galway ray sessions. Tight lines.

great session for so early in the year alan
well done man