Easkey and inniscrone pier 9.1.06

Me and Brendan

2hs easkey, 4 inniscrone

Tide rising at easkey, slack and droppin at inniscrone

Weather, clear sky, v.light wind

[b]Bait frozen squid and mackeral

[b]Rigs, float, conger traces,

[b]Results 1 Strap conger, 2 doggies, 1 Coalfish

[b]Catch and Release:: Yes/



Report:

Easkey was a blank, a lot of weed, and swell, water started coming up onto the shore end of the pier , so headed for inniscrone


V calm there, Float and mackeral bait, blanked, 2 doggies came on the conger trace, followed by my first conger ;-) (about 6-7 lb)

brendan had the Coalie, nice fish close on 3lb

lost a few more Dogs, and a few missed bites

cheers to all who post, I,m pretty new to this game (reformed trout and salmon man) and the posts inspired me to get out there

Davy

welcome to the site - and your not the only one here to have converted over from the trout/salmon scene :)

Hi Davy P

Congrats on the first conger, alwasy a bit of a surprise how hard a small one can pull! Were you fishing over the wall north, west off the end of the pier or into the pier / harbour itself?

[cheers for the welcome folks

we were fishing pretty much into the harbour, the conger came just off the steps at the end of the pier, the coalie off the end, all the fish came on squid, the bizzillions of crabs played havoc with Mackeral baits.

what is it like fishing over the other side of the pier

also anywhere over sligo way that might throw up a chance for Codling?

cheers, Davy