This post was compiled from angling reports shared on the Killybegs Mariners Facebook page: 
C cormac Burke of the Killybegs Mariners enlisted three fellow KM anglers to try and beat his PB of 23 different species on his annual week of fishing in Co. Kerry. They picked the heatwave week to do it in, and fished marks at Valentia Island, Ventry, Dingle, Derrymore, Brandon, Fermoyle, Castlegregory, Fenit Pier and the Maharees. They managed to get some quality fish, including a specimen smoothhound, an undulate ray, a painted ray, and a very fine bass of 66cm (just 1cm short of the Mariners SAC bass club record length).
But quite a few of the “easier” species evaded them, including pollock, pouting, poor cod, red & grey gurnards, thornback ray and garfish. So, ultimately, they fell short of the magic number, agonisingly missing out on equalling the PB by a single fish. This was their tally for the week:
SEAN HARTE — 15 SPECIES
1. Bull Huss
2. Common Sandeel
3. Painted Ray
4. Flounder
5. Common Goby
6. Bass
7. Smoothhound
8. Conger Eel
9. Goldsinny Wrasse
10. Black Goby
11. Ballan Wrasse
12. Red mouthed Goby
13. Corkwing Wrasse
14. Lesser Spotted Dogfish
15. Tub Gurnard
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JOHN HIGGINS — 12 SPECIES
1. Bass
2. Painted Ray
3. Flounder
4. Weever Fish
5. Common Sandeel
6. Launce
7. Goldsinny Wrasse
8. Ballan Wrasse
9. Red mouthed Goby
10. Corkwing Wrasse
11. Black Goby
12. Mackerel
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CORMAC — 10 SPECIES
1. Common Sandeel
2. Conger Eel
3. Red mouthed Goby
4. Ballan Wrasse
5. Tompot Blenny
6. Black Goby
7. Corkwing Wrasse
8. Tub Gurnard
9. Baillon’s Wrasse
10. Undulate Ray
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PRIONSIAS DOHERTY — 6 SPECIES
1. Bass
2. Flounder
3. Lesser Spotted Dogfish
4. Common Goby
5. Dab
6. Conger Eel
A full report and more photos can be viewed on the Killybegs Mariners Facebook Page.
Go Fishing…
Sea Angling in the South West
