Dingle - 1st july 2006

Hi all

Just back from a four day trip to dingle last week with Eoin and my father declan. Day one was spent bait collecting getting enough lug from milltown and crab from over near cloghan. Did a wee bit of spinning on the first evening (for about ten minutes) to see if any macks were around for fresh bait but with no joy, it was a nice evening though.
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Day 2 was spent in dingle for the ray, we got a few fresh macks later on in the day but at the start we had to settle for frozen. there didnt seem to be any difference between the two anyway. extra mackerel oil was added to each bait.

tide was flooding, and we fish for about 3-4 hours of the flood before things went quiet. rigs were one up one downs and pulleys with 4/0`s. action was farily consistent with ray and a couple of pollock. my dad stuck to spinning while eoin and i botom fished and had a few mackerel.

our tally for the session was 6 thornies the three best being 8,9 and 10lbs 12oz. Eoin had the best one shown below and also a 12lbs conger on his last cast

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My dad got a bit sick of the bottom fishing so we headed off to inch for the top of the tide and the start of the ebb so he could do a bit a spinning. We didnt think he woud get anything so eoin and i stayed in the car, but jammy git that he is we get a call on my phone that he is into a bass and so we legged it and arrived to find him landing this 8lbs 2oz bass, caught on a toby (he had a 9lbs 6oz fish here last year also on a lure)

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he has the knack alright. shoud say all fish caught on the trip were returned except 14 macks that were used for bait and some fried for supper. we stopped fishing for macks when we had enough to do us

a good start but it got better, i will put days 3 and 4 in another topic

Adam

great trip adam. glad to hear that you had syuch good fishing. just wondering if it was dingle lighthouse that you got the ray from. we're hoping to head down there in august for a week. any info would be much appreciated.

Regards neil

Hi Neil

Yeah it was from the lighthouse that we fished, but ray were being caught all over the bay. from the point below the tower, from behind the skellig, from reenbeg (which was fishing great by all accounts) and an english guy we met had five over two days (short sessions) from the marina wall out into the bay.

Nice one Adam, the Lighthouse always throws up the Thornies. Well done :)

yeah it can usually be relied upon to do the business, was surprised to see so many coming off the marina wall though.

good fish to nearly ten pounds too, worth further attention and easy to fish, clean sand mostly

cheers for that adam. we'l hopefully be down there at the start of august so will keep ya posted

Sounds like a magical trip. I can actually remember your thread from last year and your da's fish. Fair play on returning your fish.

John D.

Hi

cheers all.

neil, the only problem as i see it fishing august is the amount of shrimp around he harbour. compared to lat week when all i could see in the weed at the back of the skellig were some crab and blennies, if you go to the same spot in august its alive with shrimp, butterfish etc

we have nevr done as well later in the year for the ray, and a guy i met last year said he feels that the ray might switch onto the shrimp a bit to the neglect of fish baits. i dont know but its worth bearing in mind

thanks for the tip adam. i'l hav to bare that in mind.have a couple of other marks that hopefully will produce when we get a cahnce to get down there.

adam, not tryin to prove you wrong or anything but me and me mate had 17 ray between us second week in september 04 over two sessions, both on a falling tide!!!! i didnt wanna be bothered to fish it myself in sept and the ebb and all, but me mate persuaded me to go there after an all night session at kells . best fish 12 an a half. we were fishin about 200 yards back from the pretend cottage thingy which i walked up to lookin for a drink of water :oops: :oops: ps. is this mark same as 'light house' mark???? good luck booner

No worries i have nothing to be proved wrong on, just passing on what the local guy reckoned.

but having said that the few times we have fished it later in the year we have not had as many as in early summer. but thats only two or three sessions compared to a lot more early in the year.

im not sure what cottage you mean? but the light house mark is below the lighthouse , hence the name :D i cant picture the cottage you are talking about.

cheers
Adam

like a cottage but the windows and doors are painted on!!! i cant be 2 far away from light house but we fish from east side of mouth 2wards west side, fungi is never far away. or maybe im senile. or maybe there is a lighthouse and cottage 2gether, or i am just mad

All the spots I fished last September with fish baits untouched. A few smallish Pollock on the floats. Was hoping to be back this year but a new house has done that. Looking to re-visit next year.