Edwin and I:
6 HOURS:
Low water 2.12pm:
Caribbean weather again:
Hokkais, mackerel flappers:
Mackerel, pollack,tope:
Ran out of Kilrush at 9.30 in search of mackerel for the tope. Ver frustrating, tried numerous marks in the estuary with no joy. Ran out to the cliffs at Kilcredaun head, again no macks. However, the pollack were really on it, with no large fish but averaging 3lbs .We caught pollack after pollack,all at mid water on hokkais .Great fun, but no macks
We spotted a large number of gannets working an area and motored over confident that at last we would get amongst them. Mysteriously, whatever the gannets were working on, we had nothing to the feathers
Finally had to go out to loop head and caught a dozen macks and with time running short, whizzed back up to the beal bar. With glorious conditions, we travelled everywhere at 26 knots, a real treat
With a large 5 metre tide, we only had a short 90 minutes at the tope mark. Edwin first off landed a 26lb fish. I then followed with a 32lb tagged fish , number 31029. Must report this as soon as I find out the body involved. Irish fisheries board tag. Another tope of 35 lbs came to the boat, with a lost fish and another couple of dropped runs before the tide pushed us back off the mark
Great day out, but the mackerel are still very patchy in the estuary
Kev: