Shannon estuary-5th august

Weather sw 3,4,5, then 6
High water 3pm
Drizzle at first to beautiful sunshine and a very warm wind
Ran out in light drizzle to beal bar
The estuary is now heaving with mackerel from tiny(4 inches, no joke) up to 3/4 lb. Bait is now simply a matter of 3 or 4 drops.Mackerel can even be caught while tope fishing at anchor. Easy

However, after the outstanding tope session of two weeks ago, where we couldnt stop catching(and I believed it to be due to superior boat positioning, angling technique and general super angler status) we really struggled
Being brought back down to earth, we failed to get a single tope run, regardless of the marks tried and state of tide
Interestingly, its the second time this summer we have failed to catch in a proper session. Again, as with the last session in June that was fishless(tope anyway), it coincided with a very small tide. The shannon fishes poorly in very small tides apparently

The day finished with us taking macks, doggies, a plague of whiting to 1/2lb and two double figure huss of 11 and 14lb
Must look up specimen size for huss

Poor fishing, but nice to be on the water

Kev

well Kev,
greater spotted dogfish

record =23 lbs 13 ozs
specimen= 16 lbs