Skipper Luke Aston was back on the water last weekend to kickstart a busy season, and what a couple of days they had, with blue skies and a calm sea. All they needed was good fishing, and that was available too. Although mackerel were in short supply,

Luke: On Saturday we tried for mackerel around Loop Head but only got 1 and a few coalies. Moving off the fishing picked up as the tide started to fill. Drifts on the reefs were producing plenty of coalfish with a scatter of pollack and some spurdogs. We even got a few strings of mackerel and a fine ling.

Nice pollack
Ling
Finally some mackerel!

Sunday

A drift Sunday morning at the Loop produced no mackerel but a nice mix of pollack and coalfish. Moving out onto the reefs to mix it up a bit, the best of the fish was this ling and spurdog, both over 12 lbs.
A quick stop on the way in did provide 20 or so mackerel and a heap of small coalfish.
Spurdog
Another fine ling

 

Go fishing…

Clare Dragoon

Clare Dragoon is a LOCHIN 366 powered by 650HP engine, skippered by Luke Aston and operating out of Carrigaholt Co. Clare…

I have some offers up on my web site www.fishandstay.com and if anybody is interested in putting a trip together please do get in touch. Also I Twitter from the boat on @fishandstay and try to update my face book page www.facebook.com/CarrigaholtSeaAngling fairly often!To experience some of the best deep sea fishing available in Ireland contact Luke.
Telephone: +353 65 9058209 or +353 87 6367544
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