I went out on a boat trip this morning and caught some spur dogs puffer fish mackerel much bigger than at home some strange ray like a huge monk fish.
We were dropping the bait in 300 foot of water so you can imagine the dept you are reeling these fish up through.
They had some great equipment but I was the unlucky bstard with the clanky penn senator and poker of a rod and the rest ot them had the shimano rods gold color penn reels which were like a dream to reel comparing the penn gold reels to the one I ended up with were like putting a fly reel on a beach rod and casting out but with the luck of the irish i caught the first fish a trebble of spur dogs and caught most fish so I suppose I didnt do too bad only for the state of my tackle i recon I could have caught more fish as I lost a few on the way up.
They also supplied food and drink.
I recon later on in the summer the fishing will be better as the boats were well equiped for the bigger species such as marlin tuna dorado etc as we went trooling for the bigger fish but no luck the reels were the penn gold big game variety which i saw in a shop in westport for nearly 1000 euros.