Shannon Estuary - Heavyweight Division

Old Shore Reports are moved here for Public Viewing

Moderators: donal domeney, saltydog

Shannon Estuary - Heavyweight Division

Postby gearoid mc s. » Fri Oct 12, 2018 12:12 am

Week off work so down home to the motherland with me. Having spent the last few months distracted with pike fishing it was time to get back to the real stuff.

10/10/18 - prior to this were two shorter sessions with nothing to report bar a few small ray, dogs, whiting & straps. Hit for one of my preferred marks for a night session for 5 hours and first fish was quickly landed followed by 2 hours of nothing with a few snags thrown in, was thinking of home when in quick succession came 7 more, most to near or over double figures. listed below;

10lb 14oz,
8lb 14oz,
9lb 10oz,
9lb 9oz,
3lb 7oz,
9lb 13oz,
10lb 6oz
5lb 13oz

Rigs up & overs and pulleys baited with mack and squid. As many doubles as you could have wanted on a special nights fishing, chaos with baits taken with a minute of casting

12/10/18 back to the old reliable again but arrived later than I should have but while it started well it died very quickly, off to a huss mark to land more ray but one angry huss obliged on the last cast before home. same bait and rigs once more and packed up after 6 hours at it and the storm began to roll in. Ratchets set made for some great runs with the huss taking the rod from the rest and smashing a tip ring :roll:

7lb 8oz
11lb 4oz
2lb
9lb 13oz
3 dogs
8lb 4oz bull huss
Attachments
7.jpg
5.jpg
4.jpg
3.jpg
2.jpg

For this message the author gearoid mc s. has received thanks: 5
chuckaroo (Fri Oct 12, 2018 11:40 am), kieran (Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:43 am), MC (Sun Oct 14, 2018 12:02 am), mickser (Sat Oct 13, 2018 10:40 am), Woulfec (Sat Nov 10, 2018 9:56 am)
gearoid mc s.
SAI Megalodon!
 
Posts: 1102
Joined: Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:05 pm
Has thanked: 23 times
Have thanks: 73 times

Re: Shannon Estuary - Heavyweight Division

Postby donal domeney » Fri Oct 12, 2018 7:43 am

The comeback is imminent. :lol: looks like you'll have to change your signature.

Beats pulling in 18cm fish any day. :D
Boat species '15 (31) Shore species (21) Total species 40 Specimen: (B) Bluemouth .92kg,(B) Spotted ray 6lb,(S) Painted ray 12.4lb
Boat species '16 (30) Shore species (17) Total species 36
Boat species '17 (35) Shore species (22) Total species 37 Specimen: (B) Bluemouth, (S) Flounder
User avatar
donal domeney
Head of International Security and Bringer of World Peace
 
Posts: 4870
Images: 1
Joined: Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:13 pm
Location: cork
Has thanked: 774 times
Have thanks: 1248 times

Re: Shannon Estuary - Heavyweight Division

Postby johnwest » Fri Oct 12, 2018 2:02 pm

Some great fish there Gearoid, like the bit about "nothing to report bar a few small ray, dogs, whiting & straps", I've written reports about a lot less!
2013 species; 31

2014 species; 27

2015 species; 28

2016 species; 32

2017 species;28

2018 species; 33

2019 species; ballan wrasse,blonde ray, coalfish, cod, cuckoo wrasse, dab, dogfish, flounder, goldsinny wrasse, ling, mackerel, plaice, pollack, poorcod, pouting, scad, sea scorpion, spotty ray, spurdog, thornback, tub gurnard, turbot, whiting.
User avatar
johnwest
SAI Megalodon!
 
Posts: 1041
Joined: Fri Jul 08, 2011 2:33 pm
Has thanked: 1111 times
Have thanks: 1299 times

Re: Shannon Estuary - Heavyweight Division

Postby mickser » Sat Oct 13, 2018 10:42 am

A great couple of rayday's well done
mickser
I have not fished in two years hoping to change that this year with anything ?
User avatar
mickser
SAI Sea Dog!
 
Posts: 414
Joined: Tue Dec 01, 2009 10:45 pm
Location: dublin north
Has thanked: 345 times
Have thanks: 175 times
Blog: View Blog (2)

Re: Shannon Estuary - Heavyweight Division

Postby ste c » Sat Oct 13, 2018 2:47 pm

Savage fishing
User avatar
ste c
SAI Megalodon!
 
Posts: 1404
Images: 21
Joined: Sat Apr 17, 2010 6:01 pm
Location: dublin
Has thanked: 3 times
Have thanks: 323 times

Re: Shannon Estuary - Heavyweight Division

Postby Rod Tips » Sat Oct 13, 2018 7:18 pm

Awesome sessions, beautiful fish, congratulations

Sent from my E6603 using Tapatalk
User avatar
Rod Tips
SAI Hammerhead
 
Posts: 231
Images: 0
Joined: Wed Sep 05, 2018 10:48 pm
Has thanked: 180 times
Have thanks: 98 times

Re: Shannon Estuary - Heavyweight Division

Postby bigbadtom » Sun Oct 14, 2018 6:22 am

The stuff of dreams. Well done.
Ya should a been here last week.
bigbadtom
SAI Sea Dog!
 
Posts: 668
Joined: Wed Jan 20, 2010 11:27 pm
Location: Inishowen
Has thanked: 1 time
Have thanks: 22 times
Blog: View Blog (1)


Return to Archived Shore Angling Reports

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 5 guests