RAYS

[nicki d]

hi my daugter is wanting to catch a ray and wa wanting to know the best spots to catch one. as from my posts you can she can fish but we are u in coleraine and only really want to travel a few hours.
Can we have some help northern ireland or southern.Been on all web sights checking the marks write ups but word of mouth is better

[rab01]

Donegal is the obvious choice. Fahan will produce plenty of Ray.

[nicki d]

thats great mate cheers, will put that down as a place to go. many thanks for you help

[rodbender]

Buncrana pier fishes well for them and avoids the walk over soft sand but then you have to dodge the macky bashers.

[nicki d]

might fish for mackrel too and get some fresh bait.will need to get there first thing to get a spot

[shea mcg]

went to leenan pier for an hour last night, one small pollack from the sea wall at the pier, could not fish the pier head with my mackrel bait due to half wits with lidil fishing rods so decided to try buncrana pier or fahan beach, my mate and i fished for 2 hours while the tide had just turned and ended up with 2 good rays, 10 dogfish and a couple of small gurnards, will definitly be hitting the pier again this week

[nicki d]

great info, will need to get up early for the pier. going to try it and stay all day for mackeral for bait and through out one bait each for ray and then fish someone where at night. glad you had a good catch

[shea mcg]

all over the swilly is great for rays, fahan beach, buncrana pier, rathmullan pier and the kinnegar beach rathmullan, but i have always found these spots fish better in the dark

[shea mcg]

fished leenan pier last tuesday, had flounder on prawns, 2 small rays on mackrel strips, 2 massive spipder crabs which gave a better fight than the rays and with in an hour of it getting dark, half a dozen conger the biggest about 4.5 feet just at the pier corner

[petesmit]

when fishing leenan what is the best bait to use im interested in catching a ray

[fishermannum1]

when fishing leenan what is the best bait to use im interested in catching a ray

my favorite set up for the ray is a pully rig baited up with a strip of mack; tipped off with a half a squids head, or two large sandeels, dose the job for me.