When you see your line ‘jump’ across the spool, you have exactly the same amount out, so stop the spool.
Next, we set about marking both ends of the wreck on the display. What the others said is top advice. Fishing in Kerry – Valentia Island – Pt2, * Kingdom Come!
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(This feature originally appeared in Irish Angler Magazine in 2005). Wreck-fishing may be a roll of the dice, but a solid game plan often produces surprising results. I apply constant pressure in an attempt to keep the fish out of the wreck. I select my Penn 535gs loaded with 40lb braid for the heavier rod. The 8/0 hook is well set in the scissors of the jaw, but a quick wrench with the ‘T’ bar has the hook free.
Wreck Fishing The Anglesey coastline and beyond is littered with many different types wrecks (there are over 200 around the Anglesey coastline alone). Hey gang, we started out with thick fog this morning but then the sun came out it turned out to be another beautiful day. We were discussing tactics for catching ling from deep-water wrecks when it began to dawn on me that we had not been wreck fishing for ling in …
Either way I manage to get the fish near the boat but looking down I cannot see any colour, when suddenly the fish shows, and it is the cracker of a ling! eBay Digital Cameras and Camcorders for sale... VerticalScope Inc., 111 Peter, Suite 901, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 2H1, Canada. We are both using a Penn Tidecutter 20/30 (20 to 30lb line class) rod. There is only one down side to such calm weather conditions; it was so calm that Skua, our dinghy, would struggle to drift. Now we had a conundrum. Be prepared for: conger, bream, pollock, rasse, gurnard, turbot and ling!
Sea bass, flounder, cobia, triggerfish, false albacore and spadefish can show up anytime. Please quote TopFisher.eu where due!
Naturally, the day ends with a couple of celebratory pints in our local pub in Guileen, The Guileen Arms, where we can relax and look back. Our sounder’s output is set to 200mhz, in order to give us better penetration and resolution. This in itself takes a long time, but the gratitude received is well worth the effort. Setting off at dawn, as the sun climbs above the horizon, is the best way to start any day. Get this months Sea Angler. In recent years, catches of cod have been very good indeed.
While chatting to a couple of fellow dinghy anglers from Dublin, it occurred to me that I have been neglecting my wreck fishing. One bait, one fish. I wind down and feel some resistance so I strike hard. Summer bait catching is nothing less than a pleasure. John of the Fish Locker shows us how to catch conger and ling.
Sean gets out the scales and soon announces that the ling is surely over 27 pounds in weight. Using the plotter, we set up a grid around our coordinates and begin to criss-cross the grid in order to locate the wreck. JavaScript is disabled. The first drift, while being a short one, will allow us to determine the speed and direction of the drift. We didn’t have to wait long. The Irish sea has an abundance of both deep and shallow wrecks which play host to many different species of fish.
The smaller ling tend to get to the baits first, but if the drift slows down then the bigger fish get a chance. Our first drift over the wreck produces a fish immediately, a good ling. The West Cork wrecks would yield fish; of that there could be no doubt. Jim C goes in search of big ling.
After a great fight he saw a large ling looming from the deep. A point worth making is that it is best to use a reel without a level wind when fishing for mackerel.
Within a few days the weather had settled into conditions so calm that we could go anywhere that our range would allow, up to 40 odd miles.
Our traces are simple, but they are constructed carefully. For good measure we take a quick spin around the area to check if there are any other pieces of wreckage around the main body. * RIBS and SIBS – Getting afloat on a budget. Fishing in Kerry – Valentia Island – Pt1. When the drift is slow it is very hard to produce results with shads, our preferred method for coalfish and cod. Types Of Fish We Catch. As we do not really know what to expect, in terms of the size of fish we are likely to catch, we tackle up on the heavy side. If the stamp of fish proves small, we will each change over to a Penn Tidecutter 12/20 rod (12lb to 20lb line class). It is simple; one hook produces just one fish.