Shannon Estuary 22 July
Crew Edwin and yours truly
High tide 4.30 pm
Weather- sw 4-6, bumpy
All four seasons in one day
After speaking with some local skippers, we were informed there were now plenty of mackerel in the estuary. A short run across the estuary to littor strand saw us pick up enough for bait in short time and we positioned to fish for tope.
A nice fish of 25lbs arrived on the first cast, and then nothing for several hours
We decided to move to a new mark in deeper water and what followed could only be described as frantic
3 of the four rods immediately screamed off and pandemonium set in as tangled lines and angry tope made us look like complete amateurs. One fish was landed in the mayhem.
Retackling and rebaiting again saw two rods scream off with more tangled lines and chaos, but both fish landed.
At this point we retired two rods and fished on with only two.
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4 double hook ups later and we had landed another eight tope to 35 lbs.
At 6.45 pm, we stopped fishing after landing the 12th tope of the session, but I genuinely feel we would have kept catching all night
In summary, 20 + runs, 12 landed ,several get offs and one break off from a large fish that broke the rubbing leader
Oh, and a solitary dogfish
The Shannon estuary, why would you fish anywhere else?
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