Luke Aston reports from Carrigaholt:
Well we are having a great spell of weather here with blue skies and flat seas although it looks like a bit of rain over the next day or two. With such pleasant conditions needless to say it is lovely to be out on the seas fishing and luckily this good weather coincided with a period over which I had a group in for a week so we got to try out lots of marks.
Along with the good weather I think it is fair to say that the fishing has been very good and I would say better than I have seen for a few years. Early last week Mackerel were thick on the ground and easy to catch. As the week went on they became more scattered but this also coincided with slacker tides and our time of arrival at the normal bait marks being at slack water. We seem to be able to catch them better when the tide is running.
General fishing has been great with a great mix of fish and lots of Pollack if you want full on action. Two species that seem to be a lot more plentiful this year are Spurdog and Codling. The codling are mostly small at less than 2lbs but all over the ground and up to 20 a day. This is hopefully a good sign for the future. The Spurdogs have been a good size and we have had two Specimens over 12lb this week, one at 14lb 8oz and the other at 12lb 13oz.
We have only put in one Tope session but there were plenty about and again the size was very good with all fish over 30lb and one Specimen of 43lb which is a good size for a male fish.
So all in all we have been very happy with the fishing and I look forwards to an interesting season.
Luke Aston
Clare Dragoon
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Clare Dragoon is a LOCHIN 366 powered by 650HP engine that operates out of Carrigaholt Co. Clare.
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