myself and scotsman following a breakfast of coffee, cigs and mistakenly swallowed rubby dubby splashes are currently steaming out past the Old Head of Kinsale in pursuit of a blue shark for the little longliner will try to keep progress updated through the day if mobile coverage continues. Wish us luck and pray we dont get towed back to Lees native scotland if we get stuck into a big un
Fluff chucking is the new black..... Rampant Wreckfish is a fly angler in denial
Live from 3 miles off the Old Head Plan working a dream, we have had 6 runs and boated 2 blues 1 of 50 for me and a virginity smashing 60 for Lee. The balloons are bobbing but we are on our last bag of dubby. Great day
Fluff chucking is the new black..... Rampant Wreckfish is a fly angler in denial
jw wrote:well done, great achievement from the longliner, thinking of moving to live in cork
thought of that myself John, I'm definitely living in the wrong part of the country congrats to Pete and Lee, very well done, just brillant
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Mobile reception or rather lack of it wrecked the live updates as the action was happening im afraid. We went out more in hope than expectation with success being a run never mind actually boating a fish. Neither of us had any experience for the big boys outside charters so the day was going to be interesting .
We headed out last night to gather the macs for the dubby and after leaving them outside to soften up overnight pounded the bejaysus out of them with a sledgehammer in a barrel In the absence of fish oil we used vegetable, in the absence of bran, we used porridge oats and wholemeal flour, oh and a boil in the bag basmati rice
We headed for some deep water about 5 mile off the old head I had come across last year and always intended to return and have a go as it seemed too sharky to ignore. In the absence of a dubby bag, we butchered lees old finely meshed landing net and before long, we had a fine slick going with garfish showing and providing great sport from the off.
It was 90 minutes before the first run and confirmation indeed that firstly the hunch had been right and secondly that the theory had been put into practise correctly. Sadly it escaped after tearing off maybe 20 yards or so and dropping the bait. An hour later and another dropped run though and we got stuck in proper. After a 20 minute or so battle, I had a nice blue of 50ish into the boat.
Lee had a run dropped immediately after. Soon afterwards, Lees rod burst into life, it was his turn to get in on the action and a dour fight ensued as he played his first ever shark calmly and carefully to the boat inside a half hour. Lees first shark and biggest fish to date came in, a nice fish of 60lbs or more:-) With my balloon on the way out and Lee rerigging, he was lucky to keep his fingers and rod in one piece as a fish absolutely smashed him to pieces as with his bait trailing in the water he was attaching his balloon! Guess he had the right depth so
That was the end of the fun, with a total of 7 runs and 2 boated fish it was 2 tired but happy anglers that made their way back to oysterhaven.
Brilliant when a plan comes together and especially when you do it all on your ownio Great to see fish like that at the side of the little longliner. The majority of the fish came along at about 3 to 4 mile offshore so easily reachable in good conditions. Ill pop a few pics up on Monday. Thanks to Mohawk for showing me how to make dubby last year and cheers to JW for the rig advice. Cracking day out..
Fluff chucking is the new black..... Rampant Wreckfish is a fly angler in denial
dbrock wrote:well done lads sounds like an excellent day, wish we had blues down here
rumour has it we do
nice fishin lads
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excellent report Pete well done to lee and yourself. blues in a longliner.... deadly I'm going to try for blues soon. ill be going out from dun laoghaire. ill head out past the north kish buoy and set a slick, drift for a few hours and hopefully boat one!........if the fcukin weather settles
yes brilliant stuff great day all came together beautifully and finally found a use for my reel clicker! can't believe pete has given out our secret dubby recipe though - forgot the pollack head however garfish did a sterling job of keeping us entertained I love those crazy fish, but delighted to get the blues. ok porbeagle plan in place so watch this space
