An exquisite however bitterly chilly morning greeted a number of of us in Rossaveal this week, as we boarded the Maighdean Mara constitution boat for a day afloat in Galway Bay. The goal was pollack, for analysis sampling, so skipper Kevin pointed the boat west for some tough floor the place he anticipated to search out them.
It has been a really gentle November as much as this week, and water temperatures out the bay had been a positively balmy 12.8C. Rather a lot hotter than the -1 air temps we set out in, however the calm situations meant it felt fairly gentle. We began on some shallow floor, about 14 metres, and from the primary drop coalies began coming aboard in twos and threes. It was super sport, with some actually hard-fighting fish, and a few good cuckoo wrasse in amongst them, however not the quarry we had been after.
As we drifted on to deeper, rougher floor, pollack began to make themselves recognized, their explosive takes had been unbelievable. A transfer to deeper reefs (30m) produced a gentle take of pollack, combined with the odd coalie, cuckoo and ballan wrasse. Fishing slowed over low tide, however when the tide turned the pollack got here again on the feed in an enormous means, with fish coming over the gunwale in a gentle stream. Between 5 rods, there have been 70-80 pollack caught, an identical variety of coalies, fairly a number of ballan and cuckoo wrasse, and a few pouting too. All agreed that by any requirements, for any time of 12 months, it was distinctive fishing, and memorable for November!
Candy Tooth Pollack
Your correspondent introduced alongside a bag of fruit jelly snake sweets from a well known low cost grocery store chain (cough, Lidl!) and shared them round. One of many crew puzzled aloud if a fish would take one. Effectively, we can not say it can all the time work, however the pollack had been so hungry yesterday that two drops with a fruit jelly snake produced two pollack! Future outings might contain a comparability with different manufacturers earlier than we will advocate this one…
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Galway Bay Fishing
An everyday Galway Bay Safari is from 9am to 6pm. The Maighdean Mara will choose up your get together from the pier at Spiddal, County Galway. The boat is yours for the day, although in fact skipper Kevin will advise you the place the very best fishing is to be discovered. Deal with rent is free.
Tackle: Galway Bay Safaris, An Boluisce, Spiddal, Co. Galway.
Phone: +353 91 553888 or +353 86 8547890
E mail: [email protected]
Net: www.galwaybayfishing.com
