It was an another short afterwork fish session. We headed down to St. Mullins for an annual shad fest. But this time we witnessed something special, which could be seen roughly once every 412 days. The supermoon phenomenon.
A supermoon is the coincidence of a full moon with the closest approach the Moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, or perigee, leading to the technical name for a supermoon. 6th May was the date for this year perigee. How it impacted on our fishing? It’s hard to say. Things were very slow, shad didn’t play the ball. We had many contacts, but managed to land only two fish on the ebbing water.
I think this year is very weird, everything is late and there is not huge number of shad in the river so far.
David
http://ecoastfishing.blogspot.com/
Stephen Brennan of irishsportfishing.com also fished St. Mullins at the weekend. Stephen, Dave Fitzpatrick and Ronan O’Halloran had great fishing catching around 40-50 fish, with 8 or 9 over the specimen weight. The fish fell to a slowly retrieved Tasmanian Devil. All swam away unharmed.
You can see his full report and see some excellent photos of shad at http://irishsportfishing.com/2012/05/07/shad-fishing-st-mullins/
