swilly thornie hunt sat 31st march 2012

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Re: swilly thornie hunt sat 31st march 2012

#21 Post by Al »

Great session and report as usual! 8)

I feel a drive for Raymonds on the cards soon :D
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Re: swilly thornie hunt sat 31st march 2012

#22 Post by weedave »

awe al!!!!! i bloody blanked on friday!!! i was gonna go to that mark but chose a different one, my mistake!!!


well done lads.

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Re: swilly thornie hunt sat 31st march 2012

#23 Post by paul skelly »

Nice one lads that's some nice fishing 8)
And hard luck drew :oops: u will get them next time :wink:
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Species from the shore 2012:34,
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: whiting,pouting,dab,shore rockling,5xb beard rockling,flounder,dogfish,grunt,white sea bream,banded sea bream,black damselfish,blue damselfish, ornate wrasse,lizard fish,sea trout,red gurnard,bass,tornback ray smoothhound,Corkwing wrasse,poor cod,ballon wrasse,cod,pollock,conger,spotted ray,bullhuss,mackerel ,tub gurnard,place,lesser weever,
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Re: swilly thornie hunt sat 31st march 2012

#24 Post by Drew »

Didn't get my ray for the year, but as ever, another cracking trip with the lads... Great to meet up with Don again... can't wait for the next one.
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Re: swilly thornie hunt sat 31st march 2012

#25 Post by Tonyo »

Great post and pics
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Re: swilly thornie hunt sat 31st march 2012

#26 Post by grady »

nice thornies there Al, great pics, well done lads
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Re: swilly thornie hunt sat 31st march 2012

#27 Post by bingham »

great report guys,you've wet my appetite be good to see a bend in the rod thats not a pile of weed :cry:
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Re: swilly thornie hunt sat 31st march 2012

#28 Post by zud25 »

Well done lads 8) Hard luck on the rays Drew :evil: Nice to see the Swillly start ealy this year :D :D
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Re: swilly thornie hunt sat 31st march 2012

#29 Post by hunterman »

well done lads
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Re: swilly thornie hunt sat 31st march 2012

#30 Post by Al and Jordan »

fishy1987 wrote::lol: :lol: still early days ferg :wink: we plan to head down to tralee this summer to try for a few of the harder to get ray species. might try to round up a few lads for a few days ray fishing in august if you fancy it man. only a 2hr drive or so over from cork :wink: :D

Most Definetly :D count me in on that one! :D
no probs ferg. just keep an eye on our reports and i'll mention nearer the time when i'm putting the trip together :P
Al wrote:Great session and report as usual! 8)
I feel a drive for Raymonds on the cards soon :D
:lol: all we need is for the smoothies to return and we can head north or south on the promise of something decent to catch :P
weedave wrote:awe al!!!!! i bloody blanked on friday!!! i was gonna go to that mark but chose a different one, my mistake!!!
well done lads.
dave
:lol: always the way dave. at least you know it's fishing man :wink: :D
paul skelly wrote:Nice one lads that's some nice fishing 8)
And hard luck drew :oops: u will get them next time :wink:
cheers paul. sure it just gives us an excuse to head back up there with drew again :wink: :D
Drew wrote:Didn't get my ray for the year, but as ever, another cracking trip with the lads... Great to meet up with Don again... can't wait for the next one.
just another fortnight to go drew and we'll be back up that way again :wink:
it will be a race between you and brian to see who gets one first :lol:
Tonyo wrote:Great post and pics
cheers man.
grady wrote:nice thornies there Al, great pics, well done lads
thanks man. must be time for you to get up there and get a go at 'em :P
bingham wrote:great report guys,you've wet my appetite be good to see a bend in the rod thats not a pile of weed :cry:
roll on rathmullan man!! :D
zud25 wrote:Well done lads 8) Hard luck on the rays Drew :evil: Nice to see the Swillly start ealy this year :D :D
cheers man. we'll see you up there again this year :)
hunterman wrote:well done lads
cheers man :)
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Re: swilly thornie hunt sat 31st march 2012

#31 Post by stevief54 »

well done lads
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Re: swilly thornie hunt sat 31st march 2012

#32 Post by RockHunter »

Excellent report and some great fishing - well done.
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Re: swilly thornie hunt sat 31st march 2012

#33 Post by thelegend »

excellent session lads, beautiful haul of raymonds, well done to all 8)
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Re: swilly thornie hunt sat 31st march 2012

#34 Post by jonniace »

Great report, really enjoyed reading it. Cant wait for my hols.
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