People: 7 anglers of Shannon Town angling club
Duration: I fished 12:30pm until 4:30pm
Tide: 14:49 0.90m 21:09 4.70m
Weather: NW breeze, Sunshine with the odd cloud
Bait: Me: Mack, Eel, frozen crab and squid
Rigs: 3/02/0 penel pulley, 3 hook golgs size 1 and 2 with some rigs having a 1/0 bottom hook
Results:
I won with 3 dogs
Aiden O'Hallorahan 2nd with a dog and a fresh water eel
Report: I fished to the right which was just as well as this was where the only bites came from. The weed was much worse on the ebb which had me casting close in to start and I was switching between pulleys and paternosters. My first bite around an hour in came from a bait cast with a good over head thump to fresh mack/squid but the fish (most likely a dog) got hold of the bait missing the hooks so I fired that trace into the tackle box. This was followed by a missed bite and then another bite where the line went after a rod pull to pull out of a slight snag. Aiden to my left had a dog and finally I nailed a fish to eel tipped with fresh mack and then things went quiet for me over LW. During which the lad pleasure fishing to my right pulled a couple of dogs.
As the tide flooded I started getting bites further out and I got two dogs to whole sand eel with a sliver of squid sliver wrapped alongside. Very poor fishing here for June but while sunshine didn't help this place has been netted to feck by Bass poachers. We did hear one of them was caught recently.
Donagh
Monday, June 20, 2011
Shannon estuary 14th of June 2011
People: Me
Duration: I fished 6:20pm until 10:20pm
Tide: 17:29 4.80m 23:36 0.50m
Weather: Southerly breeze, Cloudy with a good helping of rain.
Bait: Mack, Eel and squid
Rigs: 4/0 penel pulleys
Results: 2 ray 3lb and 9lb approx, 8 dogs and a strap
Report: I arrived up with no shoreline due to the spring HW with some good healthy lumps of weed floating down tide in the post high tide rip. I cast out as far as I could and said weed do your worst. Fortunately the weed was being taken from the shoreline to my right and floated on the surface past me. I had dog bites on my first cast but lost one of fish on the way in to a snag but landed the other rod. With no spare trace yet baited up ,as I was fafing around getting a cutting board I'd left in the car, I fell behind on getting rigs out. On casting one of the rods my imp clip on the rig broke off on a rock on the first attempt to swing it. So I had to lob the trace unclipped out. This was fortutous as it resulted in my first ray of around 3lbs to mack squid wrap. My weigh scale is only showing a fraction of the digits so is now useless. Hopefully this is battery related and not sea water
As I had no rig baited up and the bait on the rig that had produced the ray was in still intact and it had only been in the water a few minutes I cast it out again. After reeling in a Dog at distance on my other rod I had a very large bite to the same trace that produced the first ray. I left it as I was preparing another bait which resulted in my rod being launched from it's tripod on to the rocks. I struck into a large ray who seemed to think it was tope as it went mental flying all round the place. But was landed and reckon on 9lbs.
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With that, the skies opened up and for the rest of the night I had dog bites (a good few missed) at different distances through out the night. Sometimes I got them further out sometimes nearer and I had to walk 100 yards up to my left three times to get an angle on a fish to pull it out of a snag fish that locked up at distance. In the middle of the session it went dead but it sped up at the end with 4 fish including the strap on the four last casts. With that I headed home.
Duration: I fished 6:20pm until 10:20pm
Tide: 17:29 4.80m 23:36 0.50m
Weather: Southerly breeze, Cloudy with a good helping of rain.
Bait: Mack, Eel and squid
Rigs: 4/0 penel pulleys
Results: 2 ray 3lb and 9lb approx, 8 dogs and a strap
Report: I arrived up with no shoreline due to the spring HW with some good healthy lumps of weed floating down tide in the post high tide rip. I cast out as far as I could and said weed do your worst. Fortunately the weed was being taken from the shoreline to my right and floated on the surface past me. I had dog bites on my first cast but lost one of fish on the way in to a snag but landed the other rod. With no spare trace yet baited up ,as I was fafing around getting a cutting board I'd left in the car, I fell behind on getting rigs out. On casting one of the rods my imp clip on the rig broke off on a rock on the first attempt to swing it. So I had to lob the trace unclipped out. This was fortutous as it resulted in my first ray of around 3lbs to mack squid wrap. My weigh scale is only showing a fraction of the digits so is now useless. Hopefully this is battery related and not sea water
As I had no rig baited up and the bait on the rig that had produced the ray was in still intact and it had only been in the water a few minutes I cast it out again. After reeling in a Dog at distance on my other rod I had a very large bite to the same trace that produced the first ray. I left it as I was preparing another bait which resulted in my rod being launched from it's tripod on to the rocks. I struck into a large ray who seemed to think it was tope as it went mental flying all round the place. But was landed and reckon on 9lbs.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Clare, 5-June-2011
People: Me. Tom and few others arrived later.
Duration: I fished 12.10pm until 12:40pm at first mark and 1:20pm until 4:50pm
Tide: 14:38 0.90m 20:58 4.70m
Weather: Strong NW wind
Bait: Mack, Eel and squid,
Rigs:
3 hook size 1/2 clipped up and golds on one rod
4/0 penel pulley on other rod
Results: 14 dogs and a 26 cm dab all in lobbing distance
Report: As the wind was blowing NW I went to the clare side for shelter opting for a mark that baitdigger and others have had some ray and huss recently from. It is a well know ray mark that we have a comp on in two weeks and I fancied an outside chance of getting my first huss of the year. The wind was blowing but it wasn't to bad so I set up. By the time I'd baited up ready for a cast my tripod was near being blown over. After fighting a big lump of weed on my first casts I decided to give up as likely hood of good fishing here was poor. Unfortunately I didn't have strong line or the leads for a near by marks that could of given huss and I didn't have the time to move further down the estuary so I opted for a comfortable rock mark near Kilrush that is a banker for fish though they do tend to be dogs.
My first cast gave me a dog and with a couple in the bag Tom O'Sullivan a few others arrived along. As the flood came in so did the dogs. I was using 6oz leads which the dogs were triping and bringing up stream. I should of switched to 7 oz and had elastic bands in the bag to get multiple hook up and I only had one double. What I was really hoping for was a bonus huss, ray or strap but none were to be found. All the fish were caught will lobs out mainly to plain sand eel. Except the last cast which was three hooks of mackerel that produced reasonable dab.
My three hook clipped up rig produced more fish as it can tend to here so I switched to that whole time in the end. Though the golds gets me more ray I thought the pulley would keep this option open. Saying that the dogs were also hitting the pulley with 4/0 hooks and 60lb line. Nice to hit a few fish though.
Duration: I fished 12.10pm until 12:40pm at first mark and 1:20pm until 4:50pm
Tide: 14:38 0.90m 20:58 4.70m
Weather: Strong NW wind
Bait: Mack, Eel and squid,
Rigs:
3 hook size 1/2 clipped up and golds on one rod
4/0 penel pulley on other rod
Results: 14 dogs and a 26 cm dab all in lobbing distance
Report: As the wind was blowing NW I went to the clare side for shelter opting for a mark that baitdigger and others have had some ray and huss recently from. It is a well know ray mark that we have a comp on in two weeks and I fancied an outside chance of getting my first huss of the year. The wind was blowing but it wasn't to bad so I set up. By the time I'd baited up ready for a cast my tripod was near being blown over. After fighting a big lump of weed on my first casts I decided to give up as likely hood of good fishing here was poor. Unfortunately I didn't have strong line or the leads for a near by marks that could of given huss and I didn't have the time to move further down the estuary so I opted for a comfortable rock mark near Kilrush that is a banker for fish though they do tend to be dogs.
My first cast gave me a dog and with a couple in the bag Tom O'Sullivan a few others arrived along. As the flood came in so did the dogs. I was using 6oz leads which the dogs were triping and bringing up stream. I should of switched to 7 oz and had elastic bands in the bag to get multiple hook up and I only had one double. What I was really hoping for was a bonus huss, ray or strap but none were to be found. All the fish were caught will lobs out mainly to plain sand eel. Except the last cast which was three hooks of mackerel that produced reasonable dab.
My three hook clipped up rig produced more fish as it can tend to here so I switched to that whole time in the end. Though the golds gets me more ray I thought the pulley would keep this option open. Saying that the dogs were also hitting the pulley with 4/0 hooks and 60lb line. Nice to hit a few fish though.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Shannon estuary 2nd of June 2011
People: Me and Martin and 4 others that arivved before 8pm.
Duration: I fished 6.20pm until 10:30pm
Tide: 19:01 4.70m 01:10 0.70m
Weather: Warm sunny evening without a ripple in the Estuary
Bait: Mack, Eel and squid, black wrap
Rigs:
I used 3 hook size 4 paternoster and boom rigs on the close in rod
Two hook golds size 1/0 and 1 and up and over
Results:
Two ray to the bottom hook of the golds 1/0 hook approx 5/6 lbs and 1lb. The rest of the lads fished to 11:30pm and blanked
Report: Had the dabs spaced through out the session to wrap tipped with mack around 20 or 30 yards straight out. I had hoped to get the dabs in the numbers and have a go for tope in Galway but as they were so thin on the ground I released all but one who had swallowed a hook.
My far out rod wasn't going far out enough. I could blame this on high pressure and the flat sea that doesn't exagerate distance it the sea does with a small wave but my follow through just wasn't workiing for me today. A bit more distance and I may of got more ray. I hate swinging a lead in confined spaces so hopefully that was the reason for my poor casting. If I could have fished the day before with a SW wind and cloud it may of improved things. Anyway I was happy enough to get this fish before 8pm and the wee ray when I was packing up.
Duration: I fished 6.20pm until 10:30pm
Tide: 19:01 4.70m 01:10 0.70m
Weather: Warm sunny evening without a ripple in the Estuary
Bait: Mack, Eel and squid, black wrap
Rigs:
I used 3 hook size 4 paternoster and boom rigs on the close in rod
Two hook golds size 1/0 and 1 and up and over
Results:
Two ray to the bottom hook of the golds 1/0 hook approx 5/6 lbs and 1lb. The rest of the lads fished to 11:30pm and blanked
Report: Had the dabs spaced through out the session to wrap tipped with mack around 20 or 30 yards straight out. I had hoped to get the dabs in the numbers and have a go for tope in Galway but as they were so thin on the ground I released all but one who had swallowed a hook.
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