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.

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.