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.

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.

A whole day on the Turbot & Brill grounds produced just 5 good sized Flatfish. Wrecks not so good. Another Downings charter boat had a day on Blue Sharks - 2 August - landed a large Blue Shark of around 100 pounds. Water temp now 15 degrees

Rosguill’s first ever Bull Huss and on the same day the second Common Skate of 2009. 85 inches long and 67 inches wingspan - estimated weight of 193 pounds. Both caught along with 12 Tope runs on a new mark………..”I will return”!
However, sand fishing has dis-improved and Pollack on the inshore reefs remains poor.

Fishing continues apace. Good fishing everywhere but still no great days on inshore Pollack. Tried for Blue Sharks to no avail - they cannot be far away as water temp is now up to 15 degrees. src=”http://www.rosguill.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ling.jpg” alt=”ling” title=”ling” width=”550″ height=”536″ class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-291″ /

Fishing remains normal - good sand fishing, limeburner good, wrecks good, Tope OK, awaiting arrival of Blue Shark which should be here within 2 or 3 weeks. Big story so far is the lack of pollack on the inshore reefs. I now believe that the “problem” is the complete absence of pipefish which are the stable diet of Pollack in the early part of the year. Cannot blame the trawlers!!!

A Common Skate measuring 78 inches long and wingspan of 60 inches was boated on Rosguill after a battle of 65 minutes. Estimated weight 160 pounds. The Skate took a mackeral flapper on the second day of the season when the Rosguill anchored up on her favourite Common Skate mark.

After a 2 week period of settled weather & some great fishing, things have returned to normal. Whole day Tope fishing for 1 Tope & wrecks fishing Ok - have to work for the good fish.

Amazing day - after a long settled period one day wreck Conger fishing produced 47 congers to 27 pounds with 6 over the 20 pound mark.

15 Tope runs and the last run was a bit of a surprise - a full one hour later Robbie Breek from Harlingen, Holland, landed a 94 pound Porbeagle - 1.5 miles from hook-up. 34 inch girth and fork length of 57 inches.

63 Ling on the wrecks in one day -almost unbelieveable.

Mackeral are now here in considerabe numbers. Water temp up to 12.5 centigrade. All types of fishing as expected, except reef pollack which have not yet appeared in quantity or quality…..strange for mid-June.

This photograph shows the first Porbeagle landed on the Rosguill in 2009.  A fine fish of over 100 pounds, tagged & released.  The most unusual thing about the capture is that the fish was really only  ”technically” landed by English angler, Michael Bridge, while fishing a whole mackeral for Pollack on one of the large wrecks off Dwnings.  He had wound his mackeral as normal up to the surface and when the Mackeral was around 3 foot from the surface, this Porbeagle took a swipe at it.  I asked him to drop his bait back into the water & grabbed the tailer.  As he lowered the size 4/0 Mustad Uptide Viking hook with 50 pound mono line the Porbeagle hit it and literally less than 2 seconds later I had tailed it.  What can only be described as a fight equalling a round with Mike Tyson ensued with the Porgie then being boated, tagged, photographed and returned alive & kicking before it really knew what happened!!!

Mixed fishing and normal for time of year.  Mackeral still not really plentiful.  Pollack so far this year seem to be poor on the reefs - offshore wrecks OK.  After 18 Tope runs last week, only had 4 more recently.  One Ok day on Conger and another good day.

18  Tope runs - one landed and spat out a 14 inch squid!

End May and fishing has returned to normal.  Limeburner fishing well, Wrecks good, enough Mackeral  & water temperature up fast to 11.5 C.

The Rosguill landed her first Tope of 2009, smallish male around 20 pounds and also a rare Blonde Ray for these parts.  Mackeral have disappeared and fishing generally has been very poor, Tory, Wrecks, Reefs & Sand.  Strange after a very good start in April……………..

……………………the very next day after putting this story up on FISHING NEWS………….. millions of Mackeral inside Mulroy Bay and a good days fishing on the sand - 6 Turbot, 1 Plaice, 6 Thornback rays, 15 Dabs, 80 or so Doggies & 1 Homlyn Ray for 3 Anglers