My First Tope - Carlingford Lough

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My First Tope - Carlingford Lough

Postby KERRY1 » Mon Aug 03, 2015 2:29 pm

Venue: Carlingford Lough
Boat: Fish Magnet
Skipper: Mark Heffernan
Bait: Mackerel
Weather & Conditions: Warm, sunny and light winds

I joined some of the guys from BAI on their annual Tope meet in Carlingford Lough last year with the aim of landing my first Tope. My skipper for the day was Mark Heffernan on board his boat Fish Magnet. We all set out and lauched early with the tide and fished all day at various locations on the Lough. Mackerel was the bait of choice. Conditions were perfect but the fishing was slow apart from some fresh mackerel which we caught for bait. We had a couple of dropped runs so we knew they were about. It seemed like it was going to be one of those days until just before we were about to head in the line of my rod started screaming, with guidance from Mark I lifted the rod, struck into it and bang! a tope was on and so was my fight to get it in. After a few minutes I managed to get it to the side of the boat and Mark my skipper got it up and into the boat for me. I was so so happy! We weighed it and tagged it and then released it back in. What a great end to a great day, my first Tope.
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Re: My First Tope - Carlingford Lough

Postby KERRY1 » Mon Aug 03, 2015 2:31 pm

My first Tope...
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Re: My First Tope - Carlingford Lough

Postby Buddner » Mon Aug 03, 2015 9:22 pm

Nice fish, fair play :D

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Re: My First Tope - Carlingford Lough

Postby KERRY1 » Mon Aug 03, 2015 10:34 pm

Buddner wrote:Nice fish, fair play :D

Thanks :)

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Re: My First Tope - Carlingford Lough

Postby SeanA101080 » Mon Aug 03, 2015 11:09 pm

Great fish,well done!

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Re: My First Tope - Carlingford Lough

Postby JOHN1 » Mon Aug 03, 2015 11:18 pm

Grand report Paula very nice first tope well done again, welcome back :wink:
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Re: My First Tope - Carlingford Lough

Postby KERRY1 » Tue Aug 04, 2015 7:50 am

Thanks Sean and John :D

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Re: My First Tope - Carlingford Lough

Postby paul skelly » Tue Aug 04, 2015 10:04 am

Long time no see Paula great fish well done
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Set him on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

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Re: My First Tope - Carlingford Lough

Postby KERRY1 » Tue Aug 04, 2015 11:10 am

paul skelly wrote:Long time no see Paula great fish well done

Thanks Paul, yes it's been a longtime since I was last on here, I'm still fishing away...
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Re: My First Tope - Carlingford Lough

Postby Topetake » Sun Aug 16, 2015 9:58 pm

Nice fish :)

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Re: My First Tope - Carlingford Lough

Postby mann » Wed Aug 19, 2015 12:36 pm

Congratulations Paula,

I bet it not only made your day I know it would have been great for the rest of the crew to be there for the fight, Well done Paula.

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Re: My First Tope - Carlingford Lough

Postby lucky13 » Wed Aug 19, 2015 2:14 pm

Congrats on ur first tope... :)

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Re: My First Tope - Carlingford Lough

Postby KERRY1 » Sat Aug 29, 2015 4:26 pm

Thanks everyone.
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Re: My First Tope - Carlingford Lough

Postby KERRY1 » Wed Sep 09, 2015 1:32 pm

mann wrote:Congratulations Paula,

I bet it not only made your day I know it would have been great for the rest of the crew to be there for the fight, Well done Paula.



Yes Mark the skipper of the boat was thrilled for me as was John who was also fishing with us, there was celebrations all round after we got it weighed, tagged and then released.
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