clare dragoon, carrigaholt, 2/11/2008

People: Tommy, viper, Brian and jw

Duration: 0900-1700

Tide: lw at 1400

Weather: as fine as you could expect for the
west coast in november, light northery breeze

Bait: mackerel, rag

Rigs: gowan and bradshaw red devil rig, green achill raiders,
5 inch shad top red, bottom yellow,3.5 oz vertical jig, muppet rigs, mackerel feathers

Results: plenty of pollack around the 7lb mark, 3 or 4 hard fighting coalies around the 8lb size, two red gurnards a few ozs short of specimen size, 5 or 6 ling, several scad and a handful of pout and poor cod, we managed to pick up seven mackerel on the way out which did us for bait.

Report: at one stag tommy was winding in a pollack when something grabbed it zzzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, wire traces and balloons quickly readied, but then we saw a fat seal on the surface
holding the pollack and laughing a us

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Ufff- no shark caught, thank god Otherwise I would be really jealous
...only joke...
Nice mix of fish guys. Well done. Sea looks flat enough

Wasn't as flat as it looked...

Totally calm compare to previous trip...

Definitely looks like better conditions than your last trip
Nice Gurnard you had there,
Do they normally get a few cod and whiting at this time of year up there We were out from Dingle on Sunday as well, it was very quiet, same time last year there were a good few about, think the water temps are down to last year though

i forget to mention we got a plenty of big whiting. We didn't get a single cod but i think they
are around. the water temp was 11 degrees. At one stage i could not get a single pollack
gilling up from the bottom with either live rag or black jelly worm on long 20lb fluoro trace,
but by casting a red and yellow shad ahead of the boat, and when it was on the bottom
vertically below the boat, winding up very fast with a fixed spooled produced a take every cast

That was a good session indeed. Sea was flat calm. And pretty good fun with a seal on 25lb rod

Many thanks to Viper for escorting me on my way back to Kilrush - thanks mate!