once again we seen some settled spells during april allowing us to push that wee bit farther offshore and were rewarded with a good few specimen fish (gallery 2009 so far) mackerel are becoming abundant offshore but are still reluctant to move into the bays in any numbers.this year thanks to joseph bradells belfast we will b running a competition for a top of the range okuma reel and i have decided that will go to the heaviest conger this year caught aboard predator II.
march was a better month with the specimen count growing the weather was more settled resulting with more offshore trips.end of feb we attended the dublin award ceremony with the predator bus and march saw myself in rotterdam with the dutch boys (photoes in dutch section) . mackerel are starting to appear in small shoals offshore and its only a matter of weeks and they will move inside.pollack have started to come onto the reefs with the usual scouts first and the larger ones will follow whn the mackerel move inside
february seen a couple of weather windows for us to get some offshore stuff done and it paid dividends with a good few specimen fish being landed with nicholas mcalorum bangor recording an amazing 6 specimens in the same day along with some nice congers.dublin was the venue for the specimen awards on 21st feb and as usual the bus travelled down south with the specimen hunters to collect their awards.march i will see a lot of my dutch friends collect their awards in rotterdam and a few months after that they will be back on our shores hunting again look forward to that.
january was not a good month as the weather kept us inshore most of the time plenty of pollack,mackerel,herring,coalfish,codling and the odd huss or two so hopefully february will be better giving a little settled weather inabling us to get across the channel into the deep holes where i know the goods will be waiting for us.
Despite the weather we had a terrific season last year recording 116 irish specimen fish and 3 new irish records spurdog,herring,and black mouth dogfish the awards are in the red cow in dublin and as usual we are running a private coach to the event and on the 25th march i will fly to holland to see my dutch client recieve their awards at the visma and anyone in holland wishes to speak to me then i will be there on he 26th and 27th of march. We hope for a better summer this year so we can push offshore more often.2008 was a good year for large skate with us recording 7 skate over the 200lb markand will finish this off by wishing you all a happy new year.
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