waterford/kilmore 9/10 /06/09

Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:29 pm

Vessel:off da hook

Crew:myself ,brian ,terry

Duration:10 hours thursday 12 hours friday

Tide:low to full ,full to full

Weatherthur nice to start with then short chop fri mirror calm am pm rain windy overcast

Baitmac ,crab squid lug rag

Rigs:everything in the box

Results:well we started off in tramore thur morning plan was to get some macs head out to a wreck had a buddy of brian with us. got the macs handy went out a bit drifted for a while lots of grey gurnet ,pollock ,whiting up to 2lbs went on again were we had lots more gurnets ,cookoo wrasse met into a few cod up to 5 lbs drifted for a while tide changed we headed in for ray we drifted for a while caught 4 small ones to 4 lbs tryed a few things did not work so we had a go for bass cross shore wind did not help us no bass kept the mac made rubby dubby for friday for tope in kilmore
back out again friday
same crew went to kilmore we had the dubby in the bucket made up so we went gilling first we had another savage session i changed to shads rod thumping time pollock to 9 lbs terry never caught pollock like them ever before . we had a good few cod to the shads and even had a few macs on them . we picked plenty of fresh macs.rain started around 12 we decided to head for tope got to the mark anchor down dubby out we had some great runs terry had his first tope a fish of 9 lbs bait back down brian had a run stripping line took over 100 yards of line then nothing reeled in and 80 lb trace bite straight true. i think it was a blue shark never seen a run like it few words said rigged up again i had a strange bit short run then nothing gentle taps struck into it result a bull huss of 8 lbs we landed 10 tope biggest was 26 lbs 14 huss to 12 lbs few dogs on mac flappers took a few pic another great day in one of my fav spots one new species to add plan on targeting smaller stuff next time build up a few marks clocked up to 50 hours on new engine running sweet as a nut
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Re: waterford/kilmore 9/10 /06/09

Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:49 pm

again superb fishing what a great two days and a great report well done lads the fishing looks like its finally picking up