pete wrote:Decent days fishing today. Tried drifting the usual shingle mark and picked up whiting, codling, red gurnard, mackerel, scad, dabs, dogfish and a rogue squid. Moved onto hard ground close to the cliffs but it was slow with a single ling and some cuckoo wrasse. Tried the clean which was even worse and we only boated a single turbot for four drifts so we moved back onto the shingle and started catching again. Fish seemed to be in little patches, one mans rod would go and almost instantly the other rod would start to bounce. Weather was beautiful though.
Pete
raymondo wrote:fisheo i'm inclined to agree, donegal bay is past its best, i've fished it regularly for about 10years now and the fish (pollack)are getting smaller and scarcer every year. a funny thing is that they do not seem to fight as hard as pollack taken elsewhere. 5lb pollack at ballycastle were nearly pulling me in whereas just a couple of weeks earlier fish of the same size were coming meakly to the net at donegal bay, odd and i do not even pretend to understand it!
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