Limerick, 25-aug-2013

[Donagh]

People: Me as I've no one to fish with anymore

Duration: 10:20 until 15:00

Tide: Spring Ebb

Weather: Mild and cloudy

Bait: refrozen mackerel, Sand eel and Squid

Rigs: Pulley 4/0 & 2/0

Results: 11 dogfish, 2 ray and a Huss

You know you haven't been fishing in a while when you open the cool box to see dead flies that have gone through the full life cycle from maggot to caster to fly.

I got here just before the post high water tide run the lasts around an hour before the water runs upstream again. On the second cast I had a dogfish. Which was followed as the tide started to run by a wacking great bite with the fish running off down the ebb flow. I had a stop start fight of a Huss diving into rocks and I was delighted to see a large tail waving out of the shallow water as I brought him gently in as he had his teeth around the penel sand eel squid.

This was followed by more doggies and this small ray. Earlier in the tide I lost two doggies and rigs on the way in to the rough round. These were recovered later on in the tide as it ebbed and released but not counted in my results.

I continued to get doggies slowly through the session with no missed bites until lunch time when things went quiet. As every angler knows the best way to get bites is to get out a sandwich. On doing this I couldn't get keep a bait on the hook for doggies but couldn't hook them. I brought the bait closer in, in the hope of avoiding the bit robbing dogs and getting a decent ray but just started hooking up the dogs again but I did get this double shot.

Photos up on my blog.

Last edited by Donagh on Tue Aug 27, 2013 9:44 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Fair play to you on a great session and a great report to go with it.

John Ainsworth.

Picture of Huss

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lovely huss

Great Huss well done

Well done nice huss mate

People: Me as I've no one to fish with anymore

really funny, who decided to go fishing for stockies during springtime? I'm still a bit disgusted but I have forgiven you in the meanwhile
No seriously, I'm really really itching to wet a line in KT and I would be delighted if you'd get in touch whenever you have time. My motor passed the NCT today so nothing is holding me back. Well, apart from the notorious lack of fresh mackerel Have plenty of frozen sandeel. And a brandnew large dropnet
Lovely Huss btw, a real beauty!

stonker of a huss, and great session

Well done Donogh cracking Huss,

Great report well done on the Huss

nice huss