Smashing 120 pound Blue Shark – first Blue of 2010 for the Rosguill, boated after a mammoth battle lasting 1 hour and 20 minutes. First run it almost spooled Dublin angler, Steven. Beautiful Blue Shark measuring 75 inches fork length with an amazing girth of 33 inches.

The first Blue Sharks of 2010 caught out of Downings were landed on 27 July by a private boat 4 runs with 3 landed – same boat had another the following day. Great to see them back!

Fishing has been Ok recently. Lots of Mackeral now. A lot of Porbeagle Sharks have been caught in the area – unfortunately none by Rosguill….Yet! Blue Sharks should be here within a few weeks. The Limeburner has been fishing ok – perhaps not just as good as earlier in the season. The sandy bays have been Ok with both good and bad days. Wrecks have been fishing good. There sems to be lots of Tope this year & they seem to have migrated earlier than normal onto the Limeburner grounds.

95 Pound male Common Skate for Dutch angler, Ton Etman. First this year – on 3rd day trying!

All is well on the fishing front. Weather, mackeral, reef, general, sand, Tope, going reasonably well.

Tope arrived in big numbers and have been “blowing hot & cold since”

Rosguill’s first ever Halibut. 32 inches long weighing 11.5 pounds. Caught by Dutch angler, Bert Uithol.
So nice, I have shown both sides of the marvelous fish which I thought was a small Tope by the way it fought. Took mackeral baited Hok-Kai (what else!)

Nice day on Turbot with 17 landed. No great size but all respectable. Wrecks fishing poorly now. Mackeral quite patchy. Water temperature now 10.5 degrees centigrade

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Several first of year species. Plenty of mackeral now. Super weather.

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Wrecks OK. Few Mackeral around. Limeburner Ok. Bays OK. Water 9.7 degrees.

[caption id="attachment_399" align="alignnone" width="451" caption="Couple Coalfish"][/caption][caption id="attachment_397" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Happy Hookers"][/caption][caption id="attachment_395" align="alignnone" width="622" caption="String"][/caption]First fishing day of 2010 saw the Rosguill head out to the wreck of the Audacious – reasonable numbers of Mackeral on the way which is nice for this time of year. The Audacious did not fish so well, but after a few drifts the answer became obvious – there was a Porbeagle hunting the Pollack. A shift another 5 miles out to the Empire Heritage produced lots of Pollack to about 7/8 pounds and not too many Coalfish.

Mackeral are now patchy, wrecks good for Pollack & Ling, Limeburner & sand fishing reasonably well.  Sharks are all but gone.

Fishing has been inconsistent lately – some really nice fishing at times and at other times very poor. Blue Sharks really very poor compared to previous years. Porbeagles now light on the ground. Settled weather forecast – perhaps fishing will improve.

Good numbers of Porbeagle Sharks. Some Blue Sharks but not as many as past couple years. General fishing, sand and Pollack fishing not so good at this time.

Fishing as expected. However Blue Sharks are definetly not in same numbers as last few years – water temperature stopped rising around start august and is still only 15 degrees as opposed to an expected 16 – to 16.5 degrees. Lots of porbeagles. Pollack still very scarce on inshore reefs – spoke to a guy who had fished off west Donegal and had lots of Pollack there and plenty of Pipefish present. Sand normal.

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The Rosguill has been taking divers out recently. Reports from other boats are of reasonable catches of Porbeagle Sharks in the 50 -100 pound range. Blues are not as good as would be expected for mid – august, but water temperature seems to have stuck at 15 degrees. Back fishing shortly & hope to have some nice photos to show.