sai tope/shark meet, clare dragoon, 19/20 july 08

People: brian duggan, jw jd and tommy

Duration: 2 day trip, handy to match weather to target species

Tide: very fast

Weather: nw, between 6 then 4

Bait: mackerel

Rigs: a lot

Results: blue shark, tope huss doggies pollack ballans cuckoos whiting pouting poor cod grey gurnard mackerel and launce

Report:

8 species caught with unbaited mackerel rigs trying to collect the bloody bait
:shock:
morning session was targetting huss, with conger and skate possible.
2 huss over 13 pound. the skipper smashed my shimano 30/50lb class
rod in three pieces trying to pull out of a snag :lol:

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afternoon session was targetting tope, brian had the first fish, we could see it had been tagged. It would have been interesting to see whether it had come 1000 miles but
the inadequate wire trace was sawn through just at the boat

two tope were boated and a second trace bitten off

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off the clare coast, blue shark catch rates are much higher if mayonaisse is added
to the rubby dubby

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the slick was set at 10:55 aand we waited till 3:30 for our only run,
perhaps it was a bit early, there were no gars either. Brian managed
to land 3 2lb whiting on a 2 snood rig.

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female blue shark 44lbs

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smashing fishing lads, would of loved it, next time maybe

well done

who hooked the blue

Nice one lads, but all bigger blue sharks are waiting for the august trip :twisted:

Hi,
Thanks for great company! I.m telling you guys that was a piece of excellent fishing.

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nice session there really good mix of species and very well done on the Blue shark

2 Huss for me, biggest about 13 1/2, one trace was bitten through by a tope. Plenty of big whiting to whole mackerel fillets!!! A good variety of species for me.

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A very fine fish, Johnny, congratulations!

Great trip,shame to drop my first tope because the Greys tope leader wasnt up to the job,The shark that John got caused a bit of a stir by picking up two of the baits,The Huss and whiting we got were of a good stamp of fish Huss around 13 and several of the whiting around the two pound mark,keeping going when the fishing was a bit slow certainly paid off,,Luke the skipper put in a big effort to get us the fish we were after,and thanks to Jw for organising the trip.