2 Nights on Roonagh Pier, Clew Bay.

[seank]

Desided to check out this Venue a few weeks back as I had never fished it and was interested in checking it out for a bit of night fishing. It is serviced with full lighting which is ideal Its pretty foul stuff either side of the pier, so I figured all the usually rough ground species should be in abundance. First few sessions produced lots of doggies, and one nice 38" huss. We were fishing on the ebb, most nights which wasn't ideal for Pier Fishing. But ya got a make use of the time you have. I am hoping to fish the rocks to the right of the pier in good weather by day. Looks promising.

Sunday 25th Sept

Time: 10.30pm-4.00am

Tide: Last hour of ebb, first few hours of the flood

Rigs: Pulley Rigs, Running Ledger.

Bait: Freshish Mackeral

Species: Strap Conger, 3 bearded Rockling, Doggies, Pollack

I had pretty crap fishing all evening, only managing one dog fish on the pulley rig I was using. However Danny had a great evenings fishing. First fish for him was a lovely 3 bearded Rockling, in the last hour of the ebb. A new species to added to his list. Followed by numerous dogs throughout the flood and small strap. On his final retrieve he managed a small pollack. Not a bad number of species I must say. He lost a Nice Huss toward the end of the night, which was a disappointment. We packed up and headed home at 4:00 oclock, as the wind picked up and was becoming a bit of nuisance. Roonagh is infamous for it exposure to the elements. That and we had run out of leads, this place is tackle graveyard. Our own fault for not using a rottom bottom link :/

We fished the mark again Monday night, and only managed one dog for the session. Fishing the ebb of a spring tide was definitely not a good plan, but it passed an evening. Danny missed a big bite, It had to have been a good conger or big huss the rod keeled over..

Will be fishing here again soon. Its definitely got potential at high tide.






Heres a picture of the Huss Rory caught on the first night we fished it

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Nice huss - one that I need badly for the year!

very impressed with the huss ...

You can get small flatfish from the inner pier if you are species hunting and wrasse from the rocks to the west, but as you say, it is a tackle graveyard.

Be interested to see how you get on with the big incoming tides

Nice huss - one that I need badly for the year!

I need to catch a double figure from shore before winter there my favourite species. There one mark I know will produce them if I get the tides right

that's a lump of a huss, fair play to ya.
Have a mate fishes there a fair bit, he's had some cracking pollock from there this Summer.

very impressed with the huss ...

You can get small flatfish from the inner pier if you are species hunting and wrasse from the rocks to the west, but as you say, it is a tackle graveyard.

Be interested to see how you get on with the big incoming tides

May try get out there tonight Kieran with the spring tide today. Should be a nice big tide tonight as well.

nice huss never fished clew bay one day, have had 2 huss doubles this year myself one in Dublin and one in wexford.tight lines se ye on the water front some time