The Shannon 30th June

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 6:37 pm

I didn't get out much in June but managed a last day session with a couple of lads from Dover SAA.
The day started too hot to wear a sweatshirt to walk to the mark but by the time I had set up the sun had gone and had been replaced with rain and gusting wind.
Weed was quite a problem for the first hour but became more manageable around low water.
Fishing was consistant with all of us landing rays and dogs. I even had a flounder that had taken the skin of a mackerel on a pennel 4/0 rig.
We ended up with six rays, twelve dogfish and a flounder.
[img]

[img]

I think this is a thornback but it has unusual markings, very few thorns and completely smooth skin like a stingray rather thsan the normal abrasive skin of a thornie
[img]

http://baitdigger.wordpress.com/

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:28 pm

nice 1 neil the rays surely make up for the time u wearnt fishing. looks like alot a weed round there did ya loose much tackle???

john

Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 8:09 am

Just one rig, the mark is fairly clean but the weed does drag you into any snags there are.
It's a small inlet on the estuary and I only fish it 2 hours down to low and two hours back up again. The rip gets too bad and it is impossible to hold bottom.

Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 11:21 am

well done that looks great fishing