by seanyroche » Mon Sep 27, 2010 7:59 pm
Vessel: Danny Buoy
Crew:Myself and ilyich
Duration:08:00 - 17:00hrs
Tide:All kinds
Weather:Sunny, little wind, flat calm max 1ft waves
Bait:Feathers, leadheads, Fresh mackerel
Rigs:Feathers, conger, shark rigs
Results:continuous flow of mackerel and some launce
I finally got the boat out yesterday at around 08:00 from the slip at Dunmore. The water was flat apart from a little wave that came in and pulled the boat sideways on the trailer and scraped the paint off one of the roller brackets .
The first few hours were spent a mile or two off shore feathering in 30-40m of water the mackerel were mainly a very poor size about 6 inch being the usual with about 1 in 6 being 12inches. Both of us were still trying to find our sea legs, has anyone got any tips for when you start to feel sea sick?
We had half filled the box with mackerel and we decided to go out a bit further and try for the blue sharks which Dunmore seem to be famous for. We ended up 8.5miles out at around 1pm set up the rubby dubby and got the baits (1 live and one dead) in the water (55m deep).
By now the sickness was well gone for me but ilyich had a sleep. Whilst waiting for a shark we tried for conger, Pollock or cod on the bottom with one rod and the feathered again at all levels of the water again only producing small mackerel I tried bigger hook sizes and sand eel type lead heads but still nothing was interested.
After 2hrs drifting in total peace and quite I heard something snorting and thought it was ilyich but it was 3 dolphins breaching nearby which was pretty amazing to see. Another 2 hours passed without a bite, from any baited rod before we had to call it a day and head for home.
The bluecharts worked perfectly on the garmin nuvi car sat nav. We stopped about 400m off the shore and gave the feathers another go this time we got a few good sized mackerel and some big sand eels.
Back on the trailer around 5pm this time without any problems it winched on perfectly.
Over all it was a good day out, but we can’t understand how we how we didn’t catch any other species, was it the dolphins or the area we fished? We covered about 5 miles during our days fishing. The area covered was from Dunmore to the following coordinates (N 52º02.629’ W007º05.778’) which is where we ended up after drifting back towards shore.
So if anyone has fished these grounds, have any suggestions as to why this area contained so few fish or has some other areas where more species would be available please let me know.
Sean
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