first tope this year

People:me the da and the son

Duration:8am 4pm

Tide:

Weather:good

Bait:mack

Rigs:all sorts

Results:macks dogs tope cod

Report:we tried a few more marks around the bay rather than go on out to the banks
we got alot of dogs and a couple of small cod around dalkey island.the slack water was at 330pm so we anchord on the outside of the frazer bank in about 16 meters .we were hoping for a ray but to our surprise we got a massive tope run ,a great scrap for around 20mins and we got it onto the boat .it was just short of 40 lb and a male fish .i think its my biggest tope to date so happy enough

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well done mate , great fish nice size ,the smile tells it all.

Cracking fish. Well done mate.

a super fish well done .id say junior was well impressed with his dad.

Lovely fish your son will remember that in years to come super

fine tope well done your son will talk about that
fish for years

Well done great result and me travellng all the way down to the Mulditch for a shed load of dogs
Thanks for all the marks recently will let you know how I get on.

Yappo

thats a good one pal well done

Thanks lads,i fished the frazer bank because i was told by a lad he got 7 ray in one session last weekend,and the boat we anchord next to had a ray and a tope so its a bit of a hot spot

Fair play to you .Nice to see a decent fish in fairly handy travelling distance.Has to be better than heading for the Kish or Burfort for a few dogs.I dossed around Bulloch Island with the young lad for mack and Pollack on sunday as I was doing taxi after dropping wife and girls out to Dalkey Island for a picnic.

Good surprise to have well done

i have been told of a trawler type boat working that aera today i wonder why
looks like a repeat of the situation on the bennett bank a few weeks ago, with lads putting up locations in reports

I never tought of it at time of posting,i will never say the mark from now on the less they know the better Howth head to bray head should be made a national park and all comercial fishing banned,including lobster pot

that is fine shark amazing catch well done

Lovely looking fish man, well done,

I see your using what looks like the same type of rod rest/holder as I have so I thought I would give you a little warning,

I got mine off the internet and thought they looked good but I wasn’t that confidant with them so while the rod sat in them I hooked a bungee rope to the reel - just in case,

I had the rods facing outward and the holder was in much the same position as yours is in the picture, I seen a slight bend come in the rod and just as I got to it the top half of the holder snapped off but lucky for me the rope held it just over the side,

Just thought I would let you know in case it cost you a rod and reel and maybe a big fish too,

well done great fish

crackin fish well done

Thanks mann,to be honest i dont use it too much i think my dad was using it that day .we lost a rod before out on the kish ,it was in gear and a tope just whipped it out of the boat

Lovely Tope!! What a surprise

congrads on the PB man well done . a day to remember for years to come