howth 15/6/09

Vessel:Bass hunter

Crewsallyfinn, myself

Duration:6hrs

Tide:high water and down

Weather:what can I say but glorious

Bait:Macs,rag

Rigs:flowing and mini traces

Results:Dogs Thornbacks,bullhuss,Dabs,Whiting,Goldsinny,Corkwing,ballan wrasse,Macs

was cleaning the boat down when sean called in for a gos,so we both had the day off and with such fine weather we decided to head up and launch in howth for a wee trip out.
Arrived around 2 and headed to the ray mark, anchor down flowing traces down for a haddock on size 2,s and Sean using ray traces.
2nd drop down i hit into this we fella

Dublin huss.jpg

On size 2,s

Photo taken and fish released Sean then hauled this guy up

sally thornie.jpg

I must say I had high hopes of hitting a Haddock and moved 3 times to different marks where I had them before but no luck, maybe left it to late for that area
With wind again tide and a long trip back in we moved to my we wrasse spot where we hit plenty of ballans and a few double shots

double wrasse.jpg

We had all 3 types of wrasse Ballans,corkwing,goldsinny
With time getting on we loaded Basshunter onto the trailor and headed home for a good rest,

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well done,the ray and huss look big,any idea what weight would you say they were

Nice Lump of a huss Gary, well done. Nice little impromptu trip there. There always the best one coz your expectations are not too high.

Great session...

not bad, session there, nice selection of fish too.

good stuff gary great session.

i was out myself on monday and the only animals we had was DOGS managed 9 species in total ..
lsd,grey gurnard,whiting, coalies, launce, macks, dabs, codling, and quite a few haddock
nothing bigger than half a pound.