Ian O’Shea, who guides for Bellavisa Angling Centre in Cobh, took a day out to go fishing in West Cork…
We had a trip with Kieran Collins last week out of Baltimore. We had some very nice huss all over 13lb. Dave Quirke had one just over 14lb.
I got a run first skate on, but the fish dropped it. Then, about 20 minutes after going back down I was hooked up again. It took awhile to get him off the bottom but when I did he came up slowly and with a lot of hard work. When we got onboard and measured, it was 210cm long 160cm wide.
Not long after Kevin McG hooked a fish it ran like hell. When we got him up it looked like a shark had bitten its tail off a while back.
