Gilthead Bream

[Geordie Ghillie]

Afternoon all, I'm heading down towards Schull in a weeks time and I'm wondering whether there are still any gilts around?
I'm not asking for secret marks just general areas that could be worth a try and if you had optimum conditions with regards to tide state and light levels etc when would you choose to fish.

Thanks

Robin

[kieran]

First and only time: caught a shoal of small ones ( about 1-1.5 lbs) in Barleycove on the extreme left hand side facing the sea casting into the stream, from the rocks, on a flooding tide, retreating back along the channel as the tide came up. I used lugworm as was fishing for flatties, thought the first was a nice bass... believe the next beach along on the road also offers them, but this was 2010 or 2009, not sure, so hopefully people will PM you or post here with better information. Lovely part of the world.

[Geordie Ghillie]

Thanks everything helps I'll look that mark up any joy I'll post a reply

[Geordie Ghillie]

Unfortunately the day we got there coincided with 60mm of rain in a few hours resulting in some of the roads round Goleen having 4ft of water on them so the torrent of freshwater pouring into the bay was biblical making it totally unfishable. You plan these trips all year then get scuppered by the weather. Sickener, but that's a fishing'