Shannon Estuary gives sea anglers respite in west Clare

It’s been a huge change in the weather this week, with much wetter and windier weather now in place, and the high pressure of the last few weeks a distant memory. Charter boat fishing is a fickle business, with weather often spoiling pans to get out, but at least in west Clare, charter skippers have the shelter of the Shannon Estuary to get afloat and give their crews a bit of sport.

Skipper Luke Aston of the Clare Dragoon found some nice steady fishing in the estuary on the ebb tide, with some nice thornback ray and doggies coming aboard.

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Luke reports the fishing before the break in weatehr was very good, with plenty of coalfish and good catches of pollack too, and decent catches of mackerel for bait too. Fishing in under the cliffs of Loop  Head someone snapped this great photo of the Clare Dragoon…

Skipper Sean Maguire of the Isle of Aran also reports really good fishing before the rain came, with good pollack fishing in particular to bait and lure.  This week the shelter of the estuary proved useful, with plenty of dogfish providing sport, but no ray to show for their efforts.

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Isle of Aran

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Clare Dragoon

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

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Sea angling in the Shannon Estuary and the Clare coast