North Clare August.

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:42 pm

Fishing has started to pick up out here and good catches of ray(including Undulated) huss, spurdog, pollack and even small tope were made during the recent week long International competition for Fanore and Lisdoonvarna SAC.
The mackerel are now in and a few can be picked up during most stages of the tide with dawn and dusk still being favourite.
During a short session this afternoon I managed 6 wrasse up to 4lb 4oz. It sounds better than it really was as 5 of them were under half a pound. I did manage one really nice Ballan which is the largest I have had from this mark
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Also had quite a few nice pollack up to about 4 lb.[/img]

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 2:50 pm

thats a stunner of a wrasse neil, its 1 spiecies i havent caught this season. well done man!!! big grin

john

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nice one bd well done
steve

Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:50 pm

Well done Neil, decent looking wrasse.
Get much of a scrap with it?

ed

Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:12 am

All the smaller wrassse I hooked that day were typical tap-tap-tap bites, this one just hammered the bait and made a run for it. I thought it was a big pollack at first.