Fav mark, Limerick, 01-sep-2013

People: Me

Duration: 10:20 until 14:20

Tide: LW flodding

Weather:Westerly breeze. Cloudy

Bait: Sand eel and Squid wraps

Rigs: Pulleys

Results: 1 thornback ray and 10 dogs

Report: On arrival I opened my cool bag to pick out the first bait to defrost and noticed my frozen mackerel was missing. After searching my car and ringing home there was still no sign. Never mind a smell will arise from somewhere over the next few weeks and I'm down to refrozen mackerel that I don't trust in my freezer anyway.

By the time I was ready to cast out the wind started up and was causing a small bit of a wave that made me worry about the chances of catching ray if it were to picked. Never fear this mark always produces and my first cast went slack line. I could barely move what was on and after a back breaking tug of war I landed this ray from 30 yards out.

On my second rod I had a double shot of dogs. After that, I had dogs through the session but as it went on I had to cast further out to get them and were ripping the bait off the hooks without getting hooked up with two fish coming in tail hooked. Half way through the session I had another though fight with a ray that went to ground on the way in. Though I did get it to move again it locked up and was eventually lost.

Fav Mark, Co. Limerick, 25-Aug-2013

People: Me as I've no one to fish with anymore

Duration: 10:20 until 15:00

Tide: Spring Ebb

Weather: Mild and cloudy

Bait: refrozen mackerel, Sand eel and Squid

Rigs: Pulley 4/0 & 2/0

Results: 11 dogfish, 2 ray and a Huss

Report:

You know you haven't been fishing in a while when you open the cool box to see dead flies that have gone through the full life cycle from maggot to caster to fly. 

I got here just before the post high water tide run the lasts around an hour before the water runs upstream again. On the second cast I had a dogfish. Which was followed as the tide started to run by a wacking great bite with the fish running off down the ebb flow. I had a stop start fight of a Huss diving into rocks and I was delighted to see a large tail waving out of the shallow water as I brought him gently in as he had his teeth around the penel sand eel squid.

 This was followed by more doggies and this small ray. Earlier in the tide I lost two doggies and rigs on the way in to the rough round. These were recovered later on in the tide as it ebbed and released but not counted in my results.

 I continued to get doggies slowly through the session with no missed bites until lunch time when things went quiet. As every angler knows the best way to get bites is to get out a sandwich. On doing this I couldn't get keep a bait on the hook for doggies but couldn't hook them. I brought the bait closer in, in the hope of avoiding the bit robbing dogs and getting a decent ray but just started hooking up  the dogs again but I did get this double shot.