John Fleming’s guests have been enjoying good fishing for porbeagle over the past days but also had some great mixed fishing as well. The first blue shark of the season was also landed on the Brazen Hussy II.
Read John’s reports below…
Had the pleasure of having Kurt Zimmert from Austria with us for the last 3 days. His goal was to have a chance at a porbeagle.
Within the first 20 minutes on the first day his wish came through. We ended up with 2 nice beagles on the first day.
Day 2 was blowing from the North West and we decided to stay inshore and try for a tope. So not only did he get his first tope but it was also a real nice fish and an Irish specimen of 158cm.
Day 3 we headed offshore again, and within minutes Kurt was hooked up again. He managed 3 beagles with the last one being the biggest of his trip at about 120/140lb roughly.
Nice tope for Kurt from Austria
A couple days later it was,well interesting, blowing very hard from the north east. With a very fast drift we ended up doing 3 drifts for the day. However, 7 fish to the boat thankfully and plenty more runs. Three or 4 smaller fish with Thomas Markey getting the first of the good fish of about 150lb. Kennedy then hooked and landed a fine beagle of 170cm just shy of the specimen he was chasing. Tom Lynch had another fine fish. It is a great day when everyone on board gets a fish with Eamon McGrattan and Darren getting 2 nice fish a swell.
Porbeagle
Finally, another day at the shark done. The porbeagles were a lot more finicky today with 4 dropped fish. We did, however, get our first blue shark of the season and had a nice porbeagle right at the slender of the session. Plenty of big pollack to keep the lads occupied throughout the day too.
Anglers also enjoyed good mixed fishing
Go fishing…
Blue Shark Angling Galway
To book fishing with John aboard the Brazen Hussy II, give him a call on 087 7571320
A regular day is between 9am- 6pm from either Rossaveal, Spiddal or Galway depending on species being sought after. Fishing on the inshore reefs for pollock, cod, ling, wrasse, conger eel and mackerel can be reached in 10 minutes from departure, while our offshore reef marks are within 45 minutes of departure. Our ground fishing for tope, spurdog, ray, bullhuss, turbot, plaice and the giant common skate can all be reached within the hour which ensures the most amount of time is spent fishing.
The shark season usually starts at the end of June and runs into late October, this is the ultimate angling adrenaline rush with these hard fighting blue and porbeagle sharks all being tagged and released safely.
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