Kilmore 14 March 2010
Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:49 pm
People: Pat, Carpets and myself
Duration:6am - 5pm
Tide: fall-rise
Weather: North Westerly breeze calm, cold/warm
Bait: Soft Plastics
Rigs:10g - 22g Jig Heads
Results: Pollock, Codling, Coalies and a Wrasse
Report:
Barry Pat and I loaded the gear into the 'Wahoo' and set off out into the morning darkness at 6am.
The cool North Easterly made its presence felt, the t-shirts would be kept undercover today!
As we steamed to our first mark the sun popped its head up to add a bit of light.
Choosing what soft plastic to use for the first mark was interesting, so many different colours and actions to choose from ! ...14g round jighead/3/0 with an Ayu Xlayer....right thats settled !, we all attacked the first mark in the same fashion, drifting at 1.6knots in 30 feet of water, tempreture showing 6.5 degrees below the keel it was game on
The first hour passed and no takers on the start of the falling tide, bit of excitment ensued when Barry got a hit from a small coalie but he seemed to be flying solo.
A change of plan was in order and we made the decision to travel to another mark while the tide was with us.
On mark 2, a few test drops resulted in Pollock in the 1lb bracket, very timid takes showed the fish were not actively feed, merely hitting the softies out of aggressive instinct, all were verylightly hooked.
The last hour of the fall created a nice rip in the water where the depth rose from 80ft to 30ft, the sea was pushed up and 'wahoo' was put into the mix. We sussed out the fish were sitting on the bottom edge of the reef waiting for the food to come to them..... and we had a menu full of tricks to offer them
We started the drift uptide of the turbulant water, flicked our softies (22g jig heads were required now) towards the reef let them sink with the undertow pay the line out andgently impart some slight movements..wait for it..wait...... then ... BANG >>>BANG >>>>BANG ..Triple Hook Up
The action was frantic for the next hour fish being hooked, lost, busting up swivels, straighting hooks....a couple of decent fish were lost due to hooks given under the load of some of the runs... getting a few pictures taken was difficult, the 'spare man' spent most of the time on the landing net and or releasing fish. A good mixture of fish was taken; Pollock, Codling, Coal Fish to good size.
As the tide slackened over low water the fishing switched off, so we moved around over general ground picking up more 'Tommy Cods' and the odd Pollock and Coalie, I was 'given out' that we hadnt picked up a wrasse over= the previous reef.. 2 drops later my Red Gill got smashed by this beauty:
Boy was I happy ...hahahah, lovely colours on the fish. As we moved around Barry picked up some lovely codling on a green shad, hanging deep until the last minute. My memory ard on the camera was full so I missed the pictures of the bigger fish later on, I get them off Barry he took a few on his camera. Patrick hauled plenty of fish during the day after it was touch and go in the morning weather a Blank would haunt him ! ....he even flicked out the odd lure on the quiet in case the Billys were about
A couple of funny moments:
I got hit by a Coalie while I was talking to Pat...thought my jigga was near the bottom...so I struck ...haha..the fish flew out of the water on the port side about 20 feet in the air and landing on the starboad side unhooked !!!! crazy...we cracked up laughing !
A gannet hit the water like a missle!!! about 3 feet from the boat after I flicked in my white giant Xlayer...I had to take advasive action.
General Ground 
We called it quits around 5pm and headed for port.
Heres a few other Pictures from the day:
Overall it was a fantastic day to be out, even though the fishing was patchy we easily had over 150 fish, Pollock to 5lb, Colling to 3lb Coal Fish to 2.5lb and a fat wrasse and all on light lure gear...looking good for the rest of the year based on these results.
The Pictures are available on my blog.
Tried to up load them here but it said they exceeded the maximun allowance
.
Danny.
Duration:6am - 5pm
Tide: fall-rise
Weather: North Westerly breeze calm, cold/warm
Bait: Soft Plastics
Rigs:10g - 22g Jig Heads
Results: Pollock, Codling, Coalies and a Wrasse
Report:
Barry Pat and I loaded the gear into the 'Wahoo' and set off out into the morning darkness at 6am.
The cool North Easterly made its presence felt, the t-shirts would be kept undercover today!
As we steamed to our first mark the sun popped its head up to add a bit of light.
Choosing what soft plastic to use for the first mark was interesting, so many different colours and actions to choose from ! ...14g round jighead/3/0 with an Ayu Xlayer....right thats settled !, we all attacked the first mark in the same fashion, drifting at 1.6knots in 30 feet of water, tempreture showing 6.5 degrees below the keel it was game on
The first hour passed and no takers on the start of the falling tide, bit of excitment ensued when Barry got a hit from a small coalie but he seemed to be flying solo.
A change of plan was in order and we made the decision to travel to another mark while the tide was with us.
On mark 2, a few test drops resulted in Pollock in the 1lb bracket, very timid takes showed the fish were not actively feed, merely hitting the softies out of aggressive instinct, all were verylightly hooked.
The last hour of the fall created a nice rip in the water where the depth rose from 80ft to 30ft, the sea was pushed up and 'wahoo' was put into the mix. We sussed out the fish were sitting on the bottom edge of the reef waiting for the food to come to them..... and we had a menu full of tricks to offer them
We started the drift uptide of the turbulant water, flicked our softies (22g jig heads were required now) towards the reef let them sink with the undertow pay the line out andgently impart some slight movements..wait for it..wait...... then ... BANG >>>BANG >>>>BANG ..Triple Hook Up
The action was frantic for the next hour fish being hooked, lost, busting up swivels, straighting hooks....a couple of decent fish were lost due to hooks given under the load of some of the runs... getting a few pictures taken was difficult, the 'spare man' spent most of the time on the landing net and or releasing fish. A good mixture of fish was taken; Pollock, Codling, Coal Fish to good size.
As the tide slackened over low water the fishing switched off, so we moved around over general ground picking up more 'Tommy Cods' and the odd Pollock and Coalie, I was 'given out'
that we hadnt picked up a wrasse over= the previous reef.. 2 drops later my Red Gill got smashed by this beauty:Boy was I happy ...hahahah, lovely colours on the fish. As we moved around Barry picked up some lovely codling on a green shad, hanging deep until the last minute. My memory ard on the camera was full so I missed the pictures of the bigger fish later on, I get them off Barry he took a few on his camera. Patrick hauled plenty of fish during the day after it was touch and go in the morning weather a Blank would haunt him ! ....he even flicked out the odd lure on the quiet in case the Billys were about
A couple of funny moments:
I got hit by a Coalie while I was talking to Pat...thought my jigga was near the bottom...so I struck ...haha..the fish flew out of the water on the port side about 20 feet in the air and landing on the starboad side unhooked !!!! crazy...we cracked up laughing !
A gannet hit the water like a missle!!! about 3 feet from the boat after I flicked in my white giant Xlayer...I had to take advasive action.
General Ground
We called it quits around 5pm and headed for port.
Heres a few other Pictures from the day:
Overall it was a fantastic day to be out, even though the fishing was patchy we easily had over 150 fish, Pollock to 5lb, Colling to 3lb Coal Fish to 2.5lb and a fat wrasse
and all on light lure gear...looking good for the rest of the year based on these results.The Pictures are available on my blog.
Tried to up load them here but it said they exceeded the maximun allowance
. Danny.
Re: Kilmore 14 March 2010
Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:01 pm
fantastic sport lads 150 fish is good going 
what type of boat and engine are you running danny
what type of boat and engine are you running danny
Re: Kilmore 14 March 2010
Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:08 pm
JOHN1 wrote:fantastic sport lads 150 fish is good going
what type of boat and engine are you running danny
How ya keeping John.
Its Pats boat:
An Orkney Day Angler 20 with a Mariner 4 stroke 75hp.
Re: Kilmore 14 March 2010
Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:16 pm
looks like a nice tidy setup, i will keep an eye out for you's down that way i feel a trip coming on very soon
Re: Kilmore 14 March 2010
Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:21 pm
JOHN1 wrote:looks like a nice tidy setup, i will keep an eye out for you's down that way i feel a trip coming on very soon
Good stuff, any excuse to get out !
Re: Kilmore 14 March 2010
Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:44 am
Sweet report Danny where did you buy your 'spare man' i could use one of those to carry my gear ?
Re: Kilmore 14 March 2010
Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:38 am
Tony Fella wrote:Sweet report Danny where did you buy your 'spare man' i could use one of those to carry my gear ?
Picked him up on the quay wall...he wouldnt carry our gear though !
Re: Kilmore 14 March 2010
Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:18 am
great to see a report from kilmore with fish caught.nice fishing lads . and good sport on light gear
Re: Kilmore 14 March 2010
Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:44 am
twinkle wrote:great to see a report from kilmore with fish caught.nice fishing lads . and good sport on light gear
It was great craic twinkle, were just getting a big of practice in on the light rods, were bringing them to Norway with us this year to tackle the big Coalies
Danny.