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Woulfec wrote:Thompson. If you YouTube jack shine pourbeagles there's an hour podcast with info on it.
This is green island. 2 miles from me.
cd07 wrote:So here's the thing. Would a lad be completely wasting his time trying that nowadays? Given the depleted stocks of all types of shark and the vast shoals of mackerel of yesteryear? I'm gonna give it a bash but I'm doubtful they're still there in any numbers but ya never know!
kieran wrote:There are three promontories at green Island (or at least there were) - you need to fish off the most easterly and as you face across Liscannor Bay (take the tower at Liscannor as your pointer) you need to cast at around 10 o'clock. The reason is that this is where a deep underwater canyon surfaces. This is the channel that the sharks patrolled back when it was a pollack laden mark.
In the 80s we used to fish for mackerel off a boat with hand lines and routinely took pollack off the reefs there to 14lbs. I remember it clearly from the appallingly small Bluebird (?) sonar reader. There are vicious reefs there, including one that emerges at low water (and which our boat sailed over on a wave - nearly sh*t myself). The man who owned the boat insisted we keep the pollack and we would tote them around the caravan park looking for some eejit to take them but we did ok on the mackerel at 2 and half pence each!
Jaysys that makes me feel old!
A few of the less well documented elements to Jack Shine's remarkable exploits are (a) the bamboo rods were home made and came from a stand that is still there at a private Italianate house on the stone beach (Creggs?) near Lahinch, (b) Jack used decent pollack and not mackerel as bait which makes a lot of sense and (c) he always fished on a S or SSW breeze to get the baits to track out away from the rocks towards that canyon, regardless of the tide. I am told he used a standard balloon rig, baited to drop to 30 feet. I met him once when I was a small boy - if I recall he ran the local Creamery in Ennistymon (which discharged into the river and produced the most amazing bags of rudd). Sadly the river's salmon and sea trout were decimated long ago. Ditto the exceptional bass and flatties.
If you pull a porgie off Green Island now, given the state of the pollack fishery, you deserve a lifetime achievement award. GL
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