Shannon estuary -Sat 26th August
Weather w/nw 4,5,6
High water 8am
Ran up to money point just after high water to spin for bass.
Nowt, nada, not a sniff
Back up the estuary and it had got so rough we wouldn’t have made beal bar. Having chatted to one of the other skippers, he advised they had got some tope from behind Scattery island, so tucked out of the wind, we fished for tope and mackerel with a solitary 35lb fish coming to the boat
At 2 pm, with low water we again ran down to money point. What followed was an ugly, awkward and downright clumsy attempt to anchor with no tide but 35mph of wind to fight. Repeat attempts to anchor eventually saw us get a hold, slightly downstream of “the mark”
Whereupon we caught nowt, again. Rob and phil were right about this spot, if your off the mark you may as well not be there!
The mackerel were everywhere though, busting surface among the legs of the pier, amazing!!
Next week Ed and I are coming back with fly rods. If I cant get the big boys on the heavy gear, it’ll be the little guys on 6wt trout rods
Kev