Limerick 2-sep-2014

People: Me

Duration: 6:20pm until 9:20pm

Tide:early neap flood
17:27 1.6m 23:59 4.0m

Weather: Mild calm night

Bait: Sand eel, Mackerel and Squid

Rigs: Pulleys 2/0 to 4/0 penels

Results: 2 thornback ray and 3 dogs

Report: I had no fish for the first hour but had small bites ripping at my bait. This can be small round fish or pup tope on this mark but after a while mackerel broke the water.

After an hour I finally got a dog with a longer cast to mack/sand eel followed through the next hour by 2 missed bites and another dog. Finally my rod tip gave a tap followed by a big pull and I had this fish.


All quiet after that as it went into darkness. I don't have a decent light at the moment so I didn't see any bites in the darkness after 9pm but on my last cast I reeled in another dog and a better ray to mack/squid which bent my AA big beach diving into the rough on the way in.





Report:

Nice to see a report on Ray being caught, I'm heading out very early on Sunday for a session, hoping for Ray or two, it was very encouraging for my prospects in the coming days, I'm might even try to squeeze a session in tomorrow night.

Nice to get your ray!

Are the mackerel far down the estuary ?

No, the mackerel were that far UP the Estuary. Very dry summers Joeys can go right up the estuary. Back 2005/6 Joeys were being caught in Limerick city.