Tag: skate
Specimen 222lbs skate at Rathlin island
19/03/12 A shift into very deep water behind Rathlin island produced this stunning large female skate estimated at 222lbs for Andrew Logan from the...
A first skate on a sunny Sunday at Red Bay
After a great day at the Irish Specimen Fish Awards on Saturday it was back down to the nitty gritty on Sunday hunting big...
Plenty of conger, bullhuss and specimen spurdogs on Predator II
The first day this year we got a weather window we decided to head up north of Rathlin Island 27 km from Red Bay. ...
Anglers fishing from Red Bay confined to shallow waters
The weather has not been kind to us up here at all. We have only managed to get out to the deep water once...
Big congers and small skate on Predator II
A few settled days allowed me to shift across the channel into the deep water holes hunting specimens. We caught all the usual suspects...
183lb skate on 12lb rod plus lots more great inshore fishing
Terry Jackson, specimen hunter and angling writer, sent us this report from a recent sea angling trip:
On a recent trip aboard my Red Bay...
Late season blue shark and more at Courtmacsherry
The season for visiting groups of fishermen from overseas is drawing to a close and the last group we had at Courtmacsherry was a...
Skate to 140 lb for anglers off the Antrim coast
Last week we went back to basics hunting the deep water holes for skate, conger, spurs and so on. A few skate were taken...
Shark season finished at Red Bay, time for cod, conger, skates and the rest
That’s another year came and gone for the sharks as far as I'm concerned and now its back to basics. There are a few...
Excellent deep sea fishing including a huge specimen bass of 16.5 lb. for a...
Charter skipper Mark Gannon reports that the fishing in Courtmacsherry in the last week or so has been good with plenty of fish in...
