I was going to go after congor at Culdaff last weekend, but seeing as how the weather was fantastic, we decided to head to Fanad Lighthouse during the day instead (bad move - now I'm seriously sunburnt!)
Thanks to arthurg for the inspiration for this trip.
When we arrived there we tried to get to the rocks to the right of the lighthouse that Arthur had mentioned in the past. but I couldn't see any way through the bushes or down the cliff - so we moved over to the left hand side of the lighthouse. Fished the last 2 hours of the flood.
Spent the 1st half an hour/45 minutes with mackerel and ragworm hard on the bottom, in close and at distance (well, what I would call distance.) Absolutely nothing.
Then I noticed a kind of reef submerged in the high tide with a lot of kelp around it. It looked like good pollack territory, so I put on a wee black Eddystone Eel and took a 5lbs pollack on the first cast. Things were very quiet after that and I changed lures a few times, but still nothing. Eventually I changed back to the Eddystone and I was straight in again - this one just under 4lbs. Two lovely fish put back to fight another day.
As the tide was reaching it's height a very heavy swell kicked up and it was getting quite dangerous where we were, so we decided to call it a day and retreat - better safe than sorry. You have to respect the sea.
As arthurg said, this is a beautiful spot with plenty of potential. One thing though - it's INFESTED with tourists who become quite irritating after a while! "What are you doing? What are you fishing for? What is that for? Have you caught anything? What are you using? What is that called? Whats the point of catching them if you don't keep them for dinner? What does that do?"
Then the best bit - just up behind us a little bit was an elderly looking couple, who spoke (well, shouted) with American accents "Hey, look at that!" The old fella shouted, pointing down at us. "Two real live Irish fishermen! How cute!" :evil: Argh! Feck off and let us fish!