Swilly shore mark - west side

Landed at the mark just before 9am, two of us had headed up early to get a full day at it. Fishing started very lively with a series of dogfish appearing almost immediately to straight mackerel fillet. The other rod with smaller mac and rag cocktails gave a few small tugs which I let develop before striking and consequently winched a small cuckoo ray up onto the rocks, 2lb at the most but a new species for me this year.

Gurnards also showed up and managed the gurnard hat trick with the tub being the biggest at about 3/4lb. The mate took a fine red at 1lb 12oz on a strip of mackerel, fine shore gurnard and we thought he might have even made the specimen mark. We also picked up a few mackerel on the bottom rigs. Thought we were in for a great days fishing but after 11am it went completely dead with only one fish between the two of us from then until 2.30pm...typical shore fishing :lol:

Headed to Kerrykeel for an hour and picked up a solitary thornback(very dark in colour). Started to piss down so headed home. Will try and put the cuckoo and red gurnard pics up on the gallery.

1 cuckoo ray, 1 thornback ray, 3 mackerel, 9 dogfish, 1 red gurnard, 1 grey gurnard & 1 tub gurnard

Typical occurrence in the Swilly - around the turn of tide it dies....and I believe high water was at noon.

Still, decent range of species there, even in the quantities weren't huge.

And, it was dry all day in Kinnegar. :lol:

(Was working there, not fishing.)

It was funny, lots of bites then the arse fell out of it and your spending 2 hours stairing at a motionless rod tip. Swilly is a great destination...great variety of species on it.