People:Me plus 3 others
Duration: 3-5 hours
Tide:rising & falling
Weather:terrible
Bait:various rigs plus lug & mackerel
Rigs: lots
Results: very poor, a few pollock, ling and cod
Report: Tried to get out most days. Very often the weather was so poor that could not get past Youghal lighthouse. There was a huge amount of fresh water coming down the Blackwater and so the water was very muddy.
On one occasion got out to Folio. For 5 hours we caught 1 cod ( 3lbs) plus 2 small ling, a cuckoo wrasse and a pouting. The wreck was showing lots of fish but they were not feeding.
Next day fished about 3 miles off Calaso bay on a reef and caught nothing but mackerel for 3 hours.
Two days later fished around Cable Island and caught 4 pollock between 4 of us. Weather blew up really quickly and we had to run for home. 5 boats arrived in at the same time and we were the only one with fish!!!
Celtic Raider, Youghal area, 2-11th August
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BRIAN DUGGAN
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Have my own boat in Balycotton harbour,even allowing for the terrible weather the few times Ive been able to get out have resulted in very poor fishing as described,the marks that have produced well in the past have yielded a few small ling and the odd pollack,has every one else been experiencing the same Id be interested to hear.
