clare dragoon, carrigaholt, 12/10/11

[jw]

People: romofa, jimclarke, viper, luke and jw

Duration: 0900-1730

Tide: spring tide

Weather: ebbing against westerly breeze heading down the estuary, grand conditions out to sea

Bait: mackerel

Rigs: redgills, shads muppets

Results: mackerel, pollack, cod, spur dogs, ling, whiting, red gurnard, poor cod

Report:

mackerel plentiful at loop head, sunfish also hanging around there. The whole area is stuffed
with pollack 5-8lbs, good cod fishing sizes from 5 to 10lbs, spurdogs plentiful all over.
steady ling fishing as well, baited muppet working best in this area. We only got 1 whiting
and didn't see a single haddock

[mann]

Well done lads,

that’s a wicked picture of the fog around the pier - did the fog hang around at the head for long ? Seeing them pictures of the Cod is making me want to get the boat back down to the coast already.

[jw]

visiblilty was limited all day, not that we had time to be looking at scenery
hopefully this cod generation will put on more weight for next year

[twinkle]

well done jw they are top quality fish .its very strange fishing in a fog we could hear people talking but could not see them, only a half mile away on the radar. we had one mackeral for the whole day and caught most of our cod with it .