Clifden / ballyconneely, Shore marks request

[donal]

Hi I’m looking for a few shore marks near enough to cliften or better yet ballyconneely. I am going to give it a try I will be there for a few days and I use a mobile home out there from time to time

I know about Gurteen and Dogs Bay, witch do you think is better for a night fish
Killary is within range I never fished here so exact marks would be helpful and it is a bit of a long trek anyway I think it is near the entrance of it witch would be further again as far as I know

I have my too nephews with me this time so please tell me if the mark would be dangerous for 12 year olds

If you would prefer a pm would be helpful too

thank you.

[tight lines]

try the white lady on the ballyconnelly side of clifden should be plenty of ray around during the day on a droping tide or slopers cliff on the other side of clifden bay if your fishing the rise also plenty of wrass and pollock of either mark also fairly safe for the young lad forget about killary it has not being fishing well the last while best of luck

[jma]

The pier in Errislannan and Aillebrack/Bunowen are supposed to be good for conger eel.

The White Lady, on the Errislannan side, is good for ray and wrasse. It's a fair bit of a trek, though, and I wouldn't recommend it at night. It should be safe enough for a 12yo, depending on weather, but definitely need to be cautious around the rocks.

Cleggan Pier is good for conger and flounder.

Sloper's Cliff is known for pollack, wrasse, mackerel, ray - although I've only caught mackerel and pollack (very good spot for those on an incoming tide). Sloper's is up the Lower Sky Road in Clifden, then left before you get to Dolphin Beach House. It's very easy to get to, but night fishing is out because the rocks are extremely dangerous, and the currents are extremely turbulent in spots. I would only take a 12yo if it was dead calm, and even then, I would feel uneasy. Midges are very annoying there on a calm evening. Very nice scenery.

The Salt Lake on the Ballyconneely/Clifden Road has pollack, wrasse and conger. It's a nice spot, but personally, I haven't been too lucky there.

I'll PM you a map of the Clifden marks.

[corbyeire]

if this post is anything to go by i would leave ballyconneely alone, anytime ive gone out there the skinners have been about
http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/foru ... 12&t=43633

[donal]

I swim there well a tad to the north at the surf beach and down from the ballyconneely mobile homes "nice to here that a swarms of these things will be around" all I know a friend was bit once we presumed that it was sea lice. never heard of anyone else getting bit

corbyerie are all the marks in the area affected

[hurler01]

Cheers for the info lads, I was thinking about headin out on the kayak on Thursday, think I'll give the area a miss for the time bein.

[hurler01]

Is there and areas around the ballyconneely or white lady areas that a kayak could be launched from. Anyone any ideas on any difficult currents? Even if anyone could pm me a reply it would be of a great help. I'll be heading out for the usual: pollock, wrasse and thornies. I'm catch and release.

[sparkey+1]

Sloper's Cliff is known for pollack, wrasse, mackerel, ray - although I've only caught mackerel and pollack (very good spot for those on an incoming tide). Sloper's is up the Lower Sky Road in Clifden, then left before you get to Dolphin Beach House. It's very easy to get to, but night fishing is out because the rocks are extremely dangerous, and the currents are extremely turbulent in spots.

If you go to slopers is a bit of a trek down the cliff and travel light as its one hell of a climb back up through the soft ground at the bottom but we have had some nice ray from that mark.

[jma]

If you go to slopers is a bit of a trek down the cliff and travel light as its one hell of a climb back up through the soft ground at the bottom but we have had some nice ray from that mark.

It's not really much of a trek if you park your car somewhere along the Lower Sky Road. It'll take 5 minutes tops to get from the road to the cliffs. There is a path and a crossing for the two wire fences, with a plastic tube covering the barbs. It was a bit difficult getting back up over the wall leading back on the road, but a road has been built there now. If you happen to be staying at Dolphin Beach House, they have a car park and a private path through their back garden, leading directly to the cliff.

The "skinners" are commonly known as sand fleas or sand hoppers. I think the proper term is Talitridae. I'm pretty sure they're harmless when swimming, and never had a problem when fishing, but I did notice there seems to be a bloom of them at Mannin in Ballyconneely and Gurteen in Roundstone. I definitely prefer a beach without them, but I've never really noticed them in abundance when rock fishing. Only the odd one latched on to a pollack, if they're the same creatures.

Is there and areas around the ballyconneely or white lady areas that a kayak could be launched from. Anyone any ideas on any difficult currents? Even if anyone could pm me a reply it would be of a great help. I'll be heading out for the usual: pollock, wrasse and thornies. I'm catch and release.

You can launch a Kayak from the beach at the Bunowen Pier. You can also launch it at Mannin Beach. Launching it from the White Lady is pointless; too much of a trek with a kayak. But you can launch it from Errislannan Pier or the pebble beach at the pier. The White Lady is basically just around the corner. You could also launch from the Clifden Boat Club. Lots of people kayak out to the White Lady from there. If you're conditioned, it shouldn't take long - this is going through the bay, so it'd be fairly sheltered.

[gfkelly1969]

hi donal pm me your number and i will ring you and give you a few marks,i fish one ray mark with my son hes only 3 and its a safe mark to fish from