winter whitefish - expression of interest

Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:39 pm

This thread is to seek expressions of interest in a winter whitefish
trip to fish reefs, stony and sandy ground six to twelve miles west
of loop head in county Clare. Since nobody can cast that far, its
going to be a boat trip, and it is hoped to book the Clare Dragoon
from Carrigaholt as she is a top class charter boats for comfort,
speed, safety and skippers ability to find fish. There is no point in
picking a weekend in November or December and getting down there to
find a gale blowing and a big sea running. Learned that one the hard
way. The plan is to only book the boat when a settled spell of weather
is on the way some weekend in November or December to be decided. The
target species are whiting, cod, haddock, hake, pollack, ling, coalfish
etc. Even in August the whiting are an embarrassment to their kind,
taking whole mackerel baits and it is hoped to catch BIG whitefish in
the winter.


As there are no fixed dates, please post expressions of interest here
to see if the plan is feasible. I think boat hire is 480 for the day
and eight can easily fish.
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Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:02 am

i would generally like to hit some deep water makrs and wrecks john.... for big ling, conger and pollack...try some pirking methods too..

Thu Sep 20, 2007 10:49 am

Would certainly be up for that John depending on dates of course.

Yappo

Thu Sep 20, 2007 11:25 am

I'd be up for it, date dependent!

Loop head

Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:44 pm

If you have the space, I'd love to tag along
Kev

Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:19 pm

Was impressed listening to how you've got on with this lad before so I'd say I would be up for it.

Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:25 pm

I'd be up for this onen as well.....

Kev

Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:31 pm

Babies and shops permitting, I'd love to....

Re winter boat trip.

Sun Sep 23, 2007 12:42 pm

The guy that runs that boat has an add in Irish angler this month so hes thinking along the same lines himself,the add says that the trip will be totally based around good weather,so things might work out,would be interested,Brian Duggan.

Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:40 pm

Sounds interesting allright should be plenty of white fish around that time of the year I.

Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:41 pm

petekd wrote:Babies and shops permitting, I'd love to....


jeez, haven't you sorted out that shop by now? :shock:

Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:13 pm

Hi John,

Sounds like a good plan, so keep me in mind for this please.

Sun Oct 14, 2007 4:33 pm

Only spotted this today. Would be interested also.

Steven

Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:28 am

Hi John,

I'll be up for it. Will I finally make it down to fish Carrigaholt. Any idea on dates etc.

Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:50 am

It seems that numbers have been reached but if theres any cancellations or new baby arrivals I'll take a spot!