Tope fishing clew bay tackle questions!

[seank]

Hello lads.

Ive plan to go camping on a said island in clew bay close to a channel where my cousin lost a tope of around 30-40lb and few years back..

I will be boat fishing in the area for most of the day but plan to shore fish it over night..

I am using a Shimano Aerlex 7000 which is currently loaded with over 250 yards 18lb breaking strain ultima line and using a abu enticer 12.6ft rod which appears to fairly sturdy to me. I wont require much of a cast as the channel is quite close to the shore so 30-50 yards will put me amongst the fish if they are in it..

Is it 18lb breaking strain enough to handle the fish or will I need something heavier. I also was planning on maybe dropping a rubby dubby bag in the channel from the boat tied to rope and bring it a shore. Would this aid my chance of attracting them in?

Any advice would be great lads.. Been thinking about this one a lot, and would be one to remember if i managed to pull it off.

The mark was also once a angel shark monk strong hold and is great bull huss conger ground so I should have fun either way.

[baitdigger]

I am not familiar with the mark there what is the bottom like, is it rough and abrasive?
you will require a good long rubbing leader of at least 80lb to take care of those little rolls with any breaking strain line you choose to use.
Personally I use 30lb Suffix tritanium but that is partly because of the nature of the mark I fish on, and it gives me a little bit of confidence to bully big fish when they have stripped me down to the gold on the spool, I wouldn't want to leave a fish with three hundred yards of snapped of line trailing from it because I couldn't stop it running.

[seank]

I am not familiar with the mark there what is the bottom like, is it rough and abrasive?
you will require a good long rubbing leader of at least 80lb to take care of those little rolls with any breaking strain line you choose to use.
Personally I use 30lb Suffix tritanium but that is partly because of the nature of the mark I fish on, and it gives me a little bit of confidence to bully big fish when they have stripped me down to the gold on the spool, I wouldn't want to leave a fish with three hundred yards of snapped of line trailing from it because I couldn't stop it running.

The bottom is shingle to sandy with odd patch of rack but I don't think its rough. Its on Island in clew bay dont know wether your familiar with the area but tend to be awful deep channel between the various islands so its deep water right up to the shore line.. Im not to sure is there heavy weed fringe close in as there is on some of the marks in the bay, but im fairly sure its clean enough.

So 18lb is a bit to light to handle them ya recken? What sort of reel do you use? dont think my aerlex could handle that much 30 pound unless I went for braid or something like that? Im complete novice to this dude, but have gut instinct that I could have good success from this mark.

I may have access to an abu 7000 if i do i could load that up with 30lb

[anthony byrne]

Last year I landed one maybe 30-35lb on the kayak. It was on a 20lb boat rod with the abu 7000 reel loaded with 40lb, the reel was fine for the job as was that strength line. As said already the trace will need a rubbing leader.

[roger de dodger]

i think the rod your using will snap if you get a good fish when you have it in close? if you want to use a soft rod use a longer one and stick with lighter mono as it will stretch more 20 lb will be ok and a 60 lb leader longer than normal so you can put mor pressure on the fish when it is nearly in ,use your drag and rod to fight the fish not your back and arms i take it you have someone going with you to help land the fish?????

[saving private brian]

if it is where i think you are going fishing ,,you will find it nearly impossible to hold a lead there in the strong tides,,you would be twenty times better fishing the channel on the slacker tides,,the ground is clean in most of them channels with the odd rocky patches.when you mentioned angler shark monkfish,it gives me the indication where you are trying,,these fish have still being spotted here by divers not too long ago,,

The problem i find with tope fishing down there is that there are so many of them channels,however this is not to say you wont get one as they are there,,
low water and on the rise tends to be the best at dusk and into the darkness etc,,i fished down that way last year a bit
just be careful and best of luck

I am not familiar with the mark there what is the bottom like, is it rough and abrasive?
you will require a good long rubbing leader of at least 80lb to take care of those little rolls with any breaking strain line you choose to use.
Personally I use 30lb Suffix tritanium but that is partly because of the nature of the mark I fish on, and it gives me a little bit of confidence to bully big fish when they have stripped me down to the gold on the spool, I wouldn't want to leave a fish with three hundred yards of snapped of line trailing from it because I couldn't stop it running.

The bottom is shingle to sandy with odd patch of rack but I don't think its rough. Its on Island in clew bay dont know wether your familiar with the area but tend to be awful deep channel between the various islands so its deep water right up to the shore line.. Im not to sure is there heavy weed fringe close in as there is on some of the marks in the bay, but im fairly sure its clean enough.

So 18lb is a bit to light to handle them ya recken? What sort of reel do you use? dont think my aerlex could handle that much 30 pound unless I went for braid or something like that? Im complete novice to this dude, but have gut instinct that I could have good success from this mark.

I may have access to an abu 7000 if i do i could load that up with 30lb

[seank]

Thanks for the help guys and yes I will have someone along with me to land the fish!

[seank]

if it is where i think you are going fishing ,,you will find it nearly impossible to hold a lead there in the strong tides,,you would be twenty times better fishing the channel on the slacker tides,,the ground is clean in most of them channels with the odd rocky patches.when you mentioned angler shark monkfish,it gives me the indication where you are trying,,these fish have still being spotted here by divers not too long ago,,

The problem i find with tope fishing down there is that there are so many of them channels,however this is not to say you wont get one as they are there,,
low water and on the rise tends to be the best at dusk and into the darkness etc,,i fished down that way last year a bit
just be careful and best of luck

I am not familiar with the mark there what is the bottom like, is it rough and abrasive?
you will require a good long rubbing leader of at least 80lb to take care of those little rolls with any breaking strain line you choose to use.
Personally I use 30lb Suffix tritanium but that is partly because of the nature of the mark I fish on, and it gives me a little bit of confidence to bully big fish when they have stripped me down to the gold on the spool, I wouldn't want to leave a fish with three hundred yards of snapped of line trailing from it because I couldn't stop it running.

The bottom is shingle to sandy with odd patch of rack but I don't think its rough. Its on Island in clew bay dont know wether your familiar with the area but tend to be awful deep channel between the various islands so its deep water right up to the shore line.. Im not to sure is there heavy weed fringe close in as there is on some of the marks in the bay, but im fairly sure its clean enough.

So 18lb is a bit to light to handle them ya recken? What sort of reel do you use? dont think my aerlex could handle that much 30 pound unless I went for braid or something like that? Im complete novice to this dude, but have gut instinct that I could have good success from this mark.

I may have access to an abu 7000 if i do i could load that up with 30lb

Its not quite where your thinking of as regards the spot where the monk were spotted by the divers and the current seems to be slightly less strong...

The good thing is we will have a small boat so if the current is causing issues we will be literally 2 min from the mark..

So ill have my boat gear ready to. Thanks for the advice dude