Duration:10am to 6pm
Tide:Low water 1-50pm
Weather: Sunny, calm, hot
Bait:Mackerel
Rigs:Uptide, downtide, single hook
Results: Still struggled to find Mackerel out from Annascaul slip so we motored up to Minard seemed to be plenty there. Once we got the bait we were heading to the channel at the end of Inch when we came across a bank that looked promising, anchored up there for a couple of hours, had a good few Thornbacks, a small Sea trout, still trying for those and had quite a few nibbles from them just need to refine the tatctics a bit yet! I had about 3 good takes that resulted in getting abraded/cut at the hook (25/30lb line) not sure what they were, fairly sure they were not Tope. Now for the one that really got us going, I saw a really big fish swirl on the surface about 20yds from the boat, just saw its tail and it was big, must have been 20lbs
then a few minutes later Col had a rattle on his rod and started the usual heave Ho! 
(he guessed maybe a Mack or seatrout) then that big fish again made a big swirl and grabbed Col's fish, and did it go, off like the clappers, unfortunately Col's reel could not keep up and snapped off 
we think it was a big Bass. It really looks a promising mark there, but suspect only on the ebb, tried again on the way back in on the flood and only a few doggies.The main quarry of the day was the Tope in the channel but unfortunately the weed was causing a bit of trouble and we didn't succeed this time although Col had some good ray and just one small Tope.
Good day all the same.
Sean,
Col with a 14lber
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