what species can you catch

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#1 Post by **mickeyfish** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:32 pm

in dublin / north wicklow how many species can be caught, ive had a discussion with a buddy of mine and he reckons over 20, what are your veiws.

regards

mick

#2 Post by **eric** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:12 pm

i would agree, ive caught 17 species from june 24th, around dublin, and that doesn't include many of the common species such as dab, coalie etc as i haven't done much bait fishing yet this year.

#3 Post by **EricH** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:59 am

Mick,
We had a club compo 2 weeks ago . . it was a shore species/rambler compo in the Wicklow area and the winner had 15 species.

I think over all there would be close to 20 as we all had species that others hadnt and vice versa :

A breakdown of what I can recall being caught is as follows :
1 Ballan Wrasse
2 Bass
3 Blenny
4 Coalie
5 Codling
6 Corkwing Wrasse
7 Dab
8 Dogfish
9 Flounder
10 Gilthead Bream
11 Grey Gurnard
12 Plaice
13 Pollack
14 Poor Cod
15 Pouting
16 Red Mullet
17 TB Ray
18 Tope
19 Bullhead
20 Coalies
There were also 2-3 other type of "rock fish" type things that I couldn't put a name on . . . but it was some 12 hours fishing!!

#4 Post by **corbyeire** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:52 am

that is some return

didnt know you got giltheads that far north!

#5 Post by **Seaniebo** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:28 am

Id say it would be 30 plus. Myself and a mate were shore fishing a couple of nights ago, not even trying for a species bash (only had crab and sandeel) and we had 13 species.
Weaver
Dogfish
Dab
Flounder
Plaice
Whiting
Codling
tub gurnard
grey gurnard
spotted ray
cuckoo ray
tope
starry smoothound

#6 Post by **EricH** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:45 pm

Yeah it could be closer to 30 . . I only included what was caught and I left off the 2 Smoothound species and I had atleast 2 other blenny/goby type fish that were caught 2 days previously but not caught on the day of the compo . . so that alone counts for 4 extra species . .

The bream were unusual thats for sure . . 2 of the same species so there was a few around that day>

#7 Post by **Seaniebo** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:51 pm

Id say so rocker. You have all the pier/rough species like the wrasses, rocklings, gobys and blennys and conger and stuff. Then theres always a few rarities like you mentioned.