Duration: 20:00-00:00
Tide: LW @ 5pm-ish
Weather: Good, light breeze
Bait: Frozen macks, sandeels & squid.
Rigs: me: 1-up/1-down. saltydog: 1-up clipped-down (I think)
Results: saltydog: 1 ray, me: 1 doggie & 1 mack.
Report:
After a few message exchanges, myself and saltydog headed out to Carraroe. Even though we knew the tide was against us, the lure of those ray 2 days earlier was too strong to resist.
I got a rattle 10 mins after the first cast – no hook-up though.
A while later while saltydog was standing beside my rod chattin’, his rod got a nice rattle. He scrambled to his rod just in time to save it from heading out to sea. Result: a very nice ray, on sandeel. (Think it was around 46/48cm? saltydog can confirm I’m sure).
A few more knocks on both rods for a while (without hook-ups), then very quiet for a looong time.
Retrieving my rig to change bait and a mack grabbed 1 of my hooks. Blank saved and 1st mack of the season.
That was about it for bites, until what was supposed to have been my last cast resulted in a doggie. Got 1 more cast in, just in case there were more around.
Nothing doing, so time for home.
Too bad the tide was heading out, but at least no blanks.
Happy days…
just for the record the ray was 51cm which is a pb had the drag set after Killary but balanced off centre which I won't be doing again there was still a good depth of water for lowtide & I'd say we wouldve picked up another few had we stayed on. All in all a good result for low water thanks mgal1761 for the lift and the fishing round 2 tomorrow!!