saltees, 13/08/09

Vessel:screeming reels

Crew:eddie, myself

Duration:10 hours

Tide:ebb flood ebb

Weather:fantastic at last, but only for one day

Bait:rag, mack, frozen crab

Rigs:everything in the box

Results:22 species, Ballen , cuckoo, goldsinny, rock cook, corkwing wrasse, ling, codling, whiting, pollock, poor cod, pouting, mackerel, launce, thornback ray, dabs, plaice, LSD, huss, grey gurnard, long spinned scorpian,Starry smoothound, turbot

Launched from Dunmore east
Well, at last managed to get out for a day, and we had a good days fishing around the saltees. no plan , just went to various marks to see what we could pick up and to give eddie a view of the marks before the upcoming small boats festival.
highlight of the day was a nice specimen Starry Smoothound of 3.3 kg on a spinning rod fishing for flats, it put up a great scrap. also had another very shortly afterwards but not as big.
all in all a great day, though at times it was like cowes week with amount of small boats out fishing!!!
regards

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Great fishing lads !
Good number of species over the gunnels.

Havnt been out around the islands yet this year, want to get out before the weather gets worse ( if thats possible ! ).

nice fishing martyn well done on the specimen hound
was the turbot any size

That's a fine tally Martyn.
Hopefully it will all come together at the festival. Is it the same team this year?

22 species!! that is fabulous fishing!well done great day.

Hi,
No the turbot was rather small !!! 20cm, but it was a turbot, have had a few around the area, but mostly no bigger than 25cm.
Jim, same team, but thats if we can get nev away from the b....y cameras and book signings etc,
Dont think he has wet a line, since he wet the babies head!!!!!
regards
screeming

Out of Tramore yesterday motor over to the hook that slip in Dunmore not for me
Fishing 2 to 4 miles of Hook Head


myself plus one other boat from Tramore
tide missed the high water 4 hours down 1 hour up
Ling 2 off
Cod 1 off
Dog fish lost count coming up 3 at a time
Mack as many as needed for the trip about 3 doz
Whiting approx 6 doz
pollack 7 off
Red Gurnard about 6 or 7
poor cod
pouting
Fishing would be better over the top of the tide got slack mid tide
We were hoping for some cod but the cod mark was alive with dog fish god knows when we will get another trip over weather was just right.
HOW MANY COD DID YOU GET
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good stuff lads that was good going most people would not get that many species in a year never mind a day.do that on the first day of small boats and ye will be laughing.

hi bass point,
we had a couple of keeper cod to 3lbs, and hopefully a nice sign, lots of small codling ( bout 5 inches long ) near the saltee's, like 3 at a time. lets hope its future stocks, before they get netted!
yes 22, species, barry, it would be nice to get them on the comp, but the rock cook and goldsinney and turbot are very hard to get to size
regards
screeming

looks like its hotting up in wexford thats a super days fishing nice one

22 species in a days it serious going, well done

never caught 22 species in 1 session in my life before, good going lads, nice smoothy too.