Kit Dunne of Wicklow Boat Charters reports on a great day out after spurdogs…
After a 7 week spell of wind and cancellations at last we got out to the deep water NE of Wicklow for the Big Spurs. After a flying start with the first Spur for visiting German student Luk, we had steady catches for 3 hours. After a review we estimated more than 30 Specimens out of 100 plus Spurdogs, all over 1m, there were a lot of tired arms today.
Longest Spur went to Joey Gough for his 119cm fish, he also boasted many double hauls with 2 specimen at one time. Warren Doyle made an exceptional haul of 3 Spurdogs 2 of which were over 12lb specimen weight. Joe Byrne wasnt going to be left out as he landed his specimens.
Well done to Paul Kavanagh and his visitors from Eirlingua Langauage School, they landed the first Spur and 3 Specimens, new to angling they were in awe and took a rest with 1/2 hour to go. This was my chance to drop a line or 2, and claimed 3 specimens to end my day and start my tally for 2023.
It was great to see such numbers as it has been building for a number of years now, such a shame our government have opened the commercial fishery for them again.