John Fleming of Blue Shark Angling Galway had a group from Wicklow Bay SAC fishing with him over the weekend. The target species was porbeagle shark, but a sloppy day on Friday meant that they were difficult to target, so the lads had to settle for a single blue shark along with a range of regular species.
But it all came good on Saturday, as the weather settled, allowing them to fish a more productive mark a bit further offshore. And there will have been plenty of sore arms come evening time as they manage 9 porgies between them, ranging from 100lb all the way up to 250lb.
Go Fishing…
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Skipper: John Fleming
Licence:1011 (11 passengers and 1 crew)
Base: Rosaveal, Spiddal, Galway (Depending on species)
Operational area: Rosaveal, Spiddal and Galway up to 20 miles to sea
Notes: A regular day is between 9am- 6pm from either Rosaveel, 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 addrenaline rush with these hard fighting blue and porbeagle sharks all being tagged and release safely.
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