Kilmore Quay, 13 & 14th June

Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:39 pm

People: Borough SAC

Duration: Sat 16.00-21.00

Tide: 10ish Sunday

Weather:Fantastic

Bait: Rag, squid, cod, crab, maks ( very few)

Rigs: many

Results: Sat fair, Sun good


Saturday fishing was at anchor. Not really a good idea as mackerel were very scarce and so we had no rubby dubbie to attract fish. I brought 8 that I caught in a 3.5 hour period on Friday night. We caught 3 on the boat plus a few launce.

The 3 hired boats had 7 anglers each. The boat that I was on had a constant flow of dogs and everybody caught at least one ray. Mick had the best fish of the day with a beautiful smoothhound.

I had my first painted ray…………a beauty of about 8lb.

The other boats had mainly dogs.


Sunday was fishing on the drift and was indeed an active day. There was a constant steam of fish on our boat all day……pollock, cod, ballan & cuckoo wrasse, ling, dabs, pouting.

Well done to Mel for catching a 9.5lb cod.

Thanks to the 3 skippers John Deveraux, Dick Hayes and Billy Bates for 2 great days out.

Had a bit of bad luck losing a brand new Grauvell rod and a Penn 850 spinning reel over the side of the boat. However, after 2 days fishing I was chilled out enough to cope.

As usual a great weekend away with the Borough SAC.

Thanks to Tom Butler for sponsoring the competition ( Norman Jackson memorial) with great prizes. Without Tom the Borough probably would not exist.
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Re: Kilmore Quay, 13 & 14th June

Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:27 am

good session well done on the painted ray,sorry to hear about the rod,glad the fishing made up for it

Re: Kilmore Quay, 13 & 14th June

Tue Jun 16, 2009 12:15 pm

well done lads nice to see eddie's bait catching something

Re: Kilmore Quay, 13 & 14th June

Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:12 pm

nice one lads.

Re: Kilmore Quay, 13 & 14th June

Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:51 pm

Great fishing stan,what tactics worked best for the ray? I assume the tides were strong?