Culdaff 10th July & 12 July

[CiaranMcFish]

People: 10th July Myself and 2 others/12th Mysefl and Paddy B

Duration: 10th 3 hours / 12th 6 hours

Tide: 10th flooding / 12th 3 hours flood 3 hours ebb

Weather: 10th Overcast NW 3-4 / 12th bright NW 1-2

Bait: Rag and Mackerel

Rigs: 3 up, 3 down, flowing traces

Results: 10th pollack and wrasse and lots of mackerel, 12th lots of pollack, few wrasse, ling, plaice, coalies, red, grey gurnards, pouting, whiting, 1 mackerel.

Report:
Had 2 trips out of Culdaff this week to make sure fishing was ok for our Sea Angling Festival next weekend 21st and 22nd of July. We had been wondering if the red tide was going to have any impact but i was pretty sure it would be ok as we were not affected as badly as other areas in the last bad bloom in 2005. Mackerel were hard to come by on tuesday evening but as always before we headed in we found a large shoal and they were thick for over half an hour. We had a few small pollack and a few wrasse however not the numbers of wrasse we would expect.

On the 12th we headed for the day and fished a few different marks, drifted and fished at anchor on the sand. The first few drifts on clean ground yielded a few decent red gurnards, a few small greys and a few whiting. The fishing died off a bit at slack tide and then we shifted to a small wreck and picked up a few ballans and a few pouting to pass the time. Moved inshore to a rocky mark and got over 20 pollack in half an hour on our first drift, manic fishing and great sport in shallow water and light tackle. Had another few drifts and had some more pollack to 4lb and a few hard fighting coalies to 4lb. Ended the day fishing the sand but only picked up a plaice and a grey gurnard, very disappointing but tides are very slack and hopefully fishing will improve with more tide next week. With all the unseasonal east and north wind and possibility of red tide impacting the fishing its hard to say whats going on but the numbers of wrasse seem to be down on recent years. Pollack fishing definitly has not been impacted up this way. Anyone looking to get away from the red tide dead zones and get a few fish should give Culdaff a throw, maybe even fish our comp next weekend!!

[PaddyB]

Had a great day on Thursday Ciaran, strange how in the first half hour or so there was a decent wee run of fish on the sand, and then it all went quiet.

As for the drift on the rough ground, I dont think I've ever had a many pollock as that in such a short space of time!

[d.kane62]

nice selection of fish there ciaran , heading to clifden ,galway next weekend anyone know if the boat fishing down that way is been affected. cheers damian