People:Vessel:screeming reels
Crew:seirt, myself 2 days, tony, sue day 3
Duration:all weekend
Tide:3 days worth
Weather:breezy but fishable sat/sun wet but calm monday
Bait:rag, crab, squid, mack, lug
Rigs:many,
Results:22 species on my boat, we had 28 between the fleet of 7 boats
Cuckoo ray, blonde ray, thornback ray, spotted ray(homlyn), bluemouth, haddock, dabs, pollock, coalfish, ling, whiting, poor cod, grey gurnard, red gurnard, pouting, mackerel, LSD, conger, cuckoo wrasse, ballen wrasse, ( also had, rock goby and corkwing)
Report:
Headed down to kerry for the Rosies small boat club annual towaway, 7 boats in total for a two day species hunt .
initial wx reports were up and down but eventually it settled into a steady southerly 3-4, but with a nice moderate swell coming in from the west, so making it lumpy near the cliffs.
Day one was hard going as it was uncomfortable, but we managed to eek out 11 species on the day, with tony and sue tait on predetor 2 on 12 species.( Donal "the dominator" on 9!)
That night in the pub we were given a tip off about a nice ray mark, so the next morning we headed along to that spot with a couple of the other boats, was sceptical at first as with any "red hot" mark, Just as we dropped anchour we had a visit from Gygibyte, nice to meet you!
Well, to say this was fishing heaven would be an understatement
7 spotted ray, 2 blonde ray, 3 thornback ray, and 1 cuckoo ray later( just on our boat) the other boats had a good spread of ray too, plus good sized dabs and a couple of plaice, and this was all in under 1.5 hours!!( all returned alive)
it was a great spot. :D
the rest of the day was spent scratching around to top up the 1st days missing species, and with a bit of luck we ended up with a winning total of 19 , (i believe "the dominator" must have lost his whip, ending up on 14 :oops: )
Monday was set aside for a Bluemouth hunt, we knew thay were offshore somewhere, so with a best guess attitude to a good deal of looking at charts etc, 2 boats, myself with tony and sue onbaord, and reefer, headed off on a very soft kerry morning, but the wind had gone calm and so had the swell! making for a nice fast trip offshore.
Well the research payed off, and with a E5 bet for the first bluemouth, first drop tony, (jokingly said), Bluemouth on!
as the shape reached the surface, the orange colour proved it was a bluemouth, happy days!!, after a quick check on the scales it showed it was a specimen.
Sue was next in to fish, and up came a double shot!! and we it looks like the top fish is a potential new Irish record!
i was getting a little frustrated, but at last a good bit and yes up came my first Bluemouth with 3 more to follow, including a specimen for myself, :lol:
Great thing about these fish is they go straight back down when released, though we did keep the specimens and the potential record fish.
We did have some nice ling and pollock action too, but incredibly the boat with us, ( even though fishing 30 meters away on every drift did not get one bluemouth) unlucky for them, and they were getting a little p...d off!!!
Well we were soked at that stage and we headed back home, we checked the weights onshore to confirm exact sizes, and it showed my fish 0,92kg tonys fish 0.96kg. and sues at 1.30kg
A great day after a lot of planning and effort
regards
screeming