Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Carig west Co. Kerry 10th-October-2010

People: me
Duration: 12:50pm until 4:30pm
Tide: 13:59 (0.3m) 20:21 (5.1m)
Weather: NE breeze, Cloudy mild with a mist
Bait: Eel, Squid and mackerel frozen
Rigs: Ledgers, pulleys, 3 hook flappers size 2s, 3 hook golds size 2s
Results: a dog and a strap
Report: I could have had my dinner mid-day and fished into darkness but with a 5.1m tide I could have been cut off or worse the water went around my car. The car probably would have been ok but the weed from the 5.3m tides the day before went over a lot of the road to this place and I don’t know where’s safe and where’s not. John Lynch used to reckon this was a low water mark but that could have been for whites and dabs. I’ve always had my best fishing on the flood but this would be a strong tide to fish the whole of the flood here.

I fished one rod with paternosters interchanging them and the other with pulleys and the occasional ledger. I fished in the middle and with the water being so low I could see the weed to my left and fished the paternosters to the right to avoid tackle losses. LW was a wash out. After an hour I did hear my rachet click on the big bait rod while I pulled out of a snag but that could have been anything. Around 3pm, the water had started to flood and I saw my pulley rod twitch. This had been mack/squid and when I reeled in with no weight I could see why there was no fish, the squid had masked to hook point due to the crabs as it was left out a long time rather than bad bait presentation. Squid sand eel penel was sent out to the same spot and after 5 minutes I had a doggy to the top hook of the 2/0 penel. I fired out the flapper in the same spot with sand eel as well as another penel but nothing

At this point I switched the paternoster to ledger and pulleys under the rock platform. This can give decent huss and straps. I was obliged by a small run after 3:30 that resulted in a small strap of around 1 Kg. After 4pm the weed started to run with the strong tide. After losing two rigs from the weed pulling the rigs into snags I kept everything close in and by 4:30pm even they were under threat. At that I went home. I didn’t take any photos but here’s one from the past.

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