Boat Marks (IMELDA) another specimen sized fish. 17/10/13

People:Two

Duration:8 hours

Tide:flood /ebb

Weather:great

Bait:rag lug macks

Rigs:various

Results:12 species, Mackerel,whiting,pollack,LSD,pouting,corkwing wrasse,Ballan wrasse,codling,flounder,dab,poorcod and Tope.

Report:Well it's been sometime since i put up a report, not that i haven't been fishing i just decided to take a back seat for a while and let others do a bit of typing for the summer months I have had some great fish in the weeks that i have not reported,a 14lb huss

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some nice ray and 8lb pollack

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to name a few, yesterday i had another good Specimen sized fish a fine fat/wide female Tope measuring 62inches long and nudging around 45lb

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This is another specimen i have had that wont be claimed by me, a fish i taught was well worth a mention, all in all a great day out.
Also worth a mention there is still a good few mackerel about with a few nice codling averaging 40 to 45cm showing aswell

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Nice

Well done John,,,some really fine fish there,,,you've had a good year out in the boat

Tope now are lenght based specimens,measured flat on a ruler,no need to kill to claim specimen,the way forward,Eddie...

Tope now are lenght based specimens,measured flat on a ruler,no need to kill to claim specimen,the way forward,Eddie...

Hi dezzer, where would you get a ruler that lenght and from a certified seller/genuine rule, like the golds ones.

People:Two

Duration:8 hours

Tide:flood /ebb

Weather:great

Bait:rag lug macks

Rigs:various

Results:12 species, Mackerel,whiting,pollack,LSD,pouting,corkwing wrasse,Ballan wrasse,codling,flounder,dab,poorcod and Tope.

Report:Well it's been sometime since i put up a report, not that i haven't been fishing i just decided to take a back seat for a while and let others do a bit of typing for the summer months I have had some great fish in the weeks that i have not reported,a 14lb huss

14lb huss.JPG

some nice ray and 8lb pollack

8lb pollack.JPG

to name a few, yesterday i had another good Specimen sized fish a fine fat/wide female Tope measuring 62inches long and nudging around 45lb

tope1.JPG

This is another specimen i have had that wont be claimed by me, a fish i taught was well worth a mention, all in all a great day out.
Also worth a mention there is still a good few mackerel about with a few nice codling averaging 40 to 45cm showing aswell

fish box.JPG

. Great fishing John well one on the c&r.

Some savage fish there John well done.
I'm jealous

Nice fish John Well done
.Inland Fisheries Ireland
do a measuring mat, not sure where they can be
purchased would like to get one myself. Can
be seen in Terry Jacksons Face book site
measuring a mullet and on Hamish Currie
site Predator Ireland, spurdog being measured.
Hope this helps.

Got mine in America,believe it or not,shame no one in Ireland selling them,the link to get ruler is on the Irish specimen fish website,very quick service,Eddie..

Great work John. I had been missing your reports, keep it up!

Thanks for the replys lads

Well done John,,,some really fine fish there,,,you've had a good year out in the boat

I have had a very good year so far dave and there is still a few weeks left

Tope now are lenght based specimens,measured flat on a ruler,no need to kill to claim specimen,the way forward,Eddie...

cheers eddie im well aware of the lenght based specimen but this one would have been just under the required lenght but the weight is right i have seen some male specimens based on lenght and if they were mid 30's thats all they were, i have no intentions of going and buying a measure or paying to get my once free certafied scales certafied either the scales still works for me without the piece of paper, it's the likes of us anglers that keep the isfc going in the first place with our submissions so why should we be charged for these things. i have had 4 specimens since last year that have not been submitted because of this, the cost isnt everything to do with it it's the principle but in saying that if i caught what i call an edible specimen like the 5lb 3oz tub gurnard i had i would probably submit it simply because i can bring it to the butchers to have it weighed like i did when my own cert was out of date for the tub:wink:

Great work John. I had been missing your reports, keep it up!

Thanks Rob, i will probably start back at the reports while it starting to get quiet in the boat section

Hopefully the weather plays ball and I can squeeze in a report or two myself before the season ends!

Hopefully the weather plays ball and I can squeeze in a report or two myself before the season ends!

What is this season thing your talking about Rob
i never knew there was one

Good man John thats a fine pollock

I need a boat from santy

Think I have to agree with you on that one John,have said similar in previous posts...

Top fishing there john!

fine haul of fish john its nice to boat few different species even nicer when they pull the scales past specimen. did ye have many huss must try find a decent spot for them down this way love catching them

fine haul of fish john its nice to boat few different species even nicer when they pull the scales past specimen. did ye have many huss must try find a decent spot for them down this way love catching them

few nice huss over the last few weeks but this 14lb fish was the best of them

nice going laad...

nice going laad...

Cheers lucky