screeming reels, on the species Barren East coast!!

[]Boat[/b]:Screeming reels

Crew:Siert and myself

Date:30th may 2008

Location:Cahore

Duration:10 hours

Tide:Ebb, flood

Weather:fantastic at last

Bait:Crab, fresh macks, rag, lug,

Rigs:pennels tope rigs, spreader bars, shrimp rigs

Results 12 Species in total
Tope 7 to 35lb, Thornback ray 14 to 8lbs, starry smoothound 16 to 4lbs, common smoothound 12 to 5.5lbs, bull huss 2 to 11lbs, grey gurnards, lots to 1.3lbs, Tub Gurnard, Macks, Herring, Dabs, Whiting, LSD to many!!!



Report:
Launched nice and early with eager anticipation after dezzers good day previous, found the macks early and soon had enougth to start, went to the same mark as dezzer and had a fantastic morning session, All the species bar three were caught at this spot, and the action was non stop, the tope put up some nice fights, and the larger smoothies were really great fighters.
It was just one of those days we all dream off with nice large fish consistantely comming to the boat.
Who said we had it lucky on the south coast!!!! this was the best session i have had for months!
And just to cap it all, it was sunny and warm all day.
regards
screeming

great fishing martyn.
at what stage of the tides where you getting the tope,ray and smuts.
did you find one tide fished better than the other?

regards

brian

Hi,
it was when the tide had lost its full force, asthe speed was dropping, noticable that the lads out today hav'nt had much success yet, and thats could be because the tide is bigger.
Definately when the tide was flowing south we had the better fishing, we went out deep (180) around slack water, and all we picked up was dogs, and few of them.
so it looks like the smaller tide are better, the lads results may confirm that today, we shall see.
regards
screeming

Hi,

Nice fishing. Cahore at this time of year would always fish well for rough species. In reply to the exclamation marks, it is clean fish that the east coast is barren of. Try fishing off Greystones, once the jewel in the crown for Cod and various flatfish. You are right to target species in this day and age, and again I say well done. But your bench mark is not mine. Believe me, leaving aside the Tope, Grey Gurnard, and Huss, the average size of fish caught on your trip are smaller than they would have been in the not to recent past.

Ashley

Hi,
Fully appreciate that, was having great fun( not) during comps out of dublin catching 5cm long dabs and whiting etc, so understand where your coming from that there is no edibles left, mind you, the way the inshore pollock and cod are getting hammered on the south coast this year, we will soon be in the same boat.
regards
screeming

wow martyn that's seriously good fishing.

on the other point, the east coast is not bathed in the gulf stream,
water is much colder and its a different ecosystem then the southwest,
which is part of the explanation maybe?

Hi again,

No the east coast is just fished out. Blame the Common Fisheries Policy, lack of regulation by our government, mussel dredging, and whelking. The latter two particularly apply to the Greystones area. Check out the specimen books for the seventies and eighties. Regular species to specimen weight from Greystones were Plaice, Tope, Thornback and Blonde Ray, and Spurdog. Off the top of my head, I have caught or witnessed being caught, 23 species of fish in and around Greystones. Just a memory now.

Ashley

Hi,
it was when the tide had lost its full force, asthe speed was dropping, noticable that the lads out today hav'nt had much success yet, and thats could be because the tide is bigger.
Definately when the tide was flowing south we had the better fishing, we went out deep (180) around slack water, and all we picked up was dogs, and few of them.
so it looks like the smaller tide are better, the lads results may confirm that today, we shall see.
regards
screeming

i always found i caught more when the tide was running south in a weak tide
thanks

brian

that huss looks very angry :lol: :lol:

that huss looks very angry :lol: :lol:

he had a hook in his mouth and was trawled through about 60 feet of water :wink:

great fishing martyn.we fished it sat with great fishing again tope not there in as big as numbers but getting smoothhound like doggies too around 5 lb some great fights lost count of how meny we got.landed 3 tope to 27lb lost 2 more.had 10 species (tope,smoothhound,huss,thornback ray,spotted ray,doggies,grey gurnard,dad,whiten,mackerel).i found the best fishing was when the tide was running hard and died when it slackened off changed around and start getting the smaller stuff then.has to be best days fishing this year there was not a min all day there was not a rod going.