Still reasonable fishing – if the weather would allow the Rosguill go wherever.

Fishing September good – Blue Sharks gone? – spoke too soon – caught 2 Blue Sharks very next day – 13 degrees water temperature.

But most other species OK.

Nice female 173 pound Common Skate – first this year on board.

Nice day at Turbot and Brill. Sand fishing Ok. Also Limeburner for the “usual suspects”. Blue Sharks are fairly poor – a few around but not big numbers. Few Tope at Limeburner. Mackeral fairly good numbers. Water temperature 2011 barely managed to reach 15 centigrade – probably main reason for low numbers of Blue Sharks. No Porbeagles around.

A close up photograph of a tooth from a Blue Shark – makes a “kitchen devil” look positively harmless!!!

Some nice Blue Sharks. The 90 pound male took the bait and after a very strong run was struck by the angler…………the line went slack and the angler wound in…….the Blue was running towards the boat unknown to the angler who thought that it was truly gone………………..just as the swivel came out of the water the Shark breached the surface, turned and ran again……..never saw a Shark before which ran almost the whole way back to the boat……amazing!

Rosguill boated 2 Blue Sharks – 55 pound & 35 pound. First of the year & although the second day fishing for Blues, reports from other skippers are indicating that Blues this year are not good

Lots of Mackeral – at last.
Porbeagles have been inconsistent to say the least – occasional catches by some boats – one private boat had 12 in 2 days a couple weeks ago. The Rosguill still has to land a Porgie for 2011.
Reasonable numbers of Cod around this year, including some nice 2 – 4 pounders. Haddock have also made a long awaited comeback, with an almost guarantee of catching one or two on the Limeburner grounds per day.
Wrecks are as normal, including the odd resident Porgie.
Tope numbers good, although a distance away. They should now be on the Limeburner grounds but not in great numbers.

Rosguill lost a Porgie yesterday on the Roscommon – took a 10/12 pound Ling – was never going top be boated but would have been nice to see it.

A private boat lost a huge Porgie (according to the anglers) today – had it to the side of the boat and estimated several hundred pounds.

The same private boat landed a 40 pound Blue Shark to day and there was a sixty pound Blue Shark landed yesterday by another private boat.

THEY’RE BACK!!!

The most remarkable thing this year so far is that Mackeral remain very “patchy”. By mid-July they should be everywhere and anywhere. Some days it is a struggle to get the morning’s quota.

Caught a Scad today! Tope fishing is very good. Also Turbot and Brill are good – so far. Limeburner & wrecks fishing well.
No sign yet of Blue Sharks – water is 14 degrees right now so hopefully by mid-August we should see a few around. Porbeagles have not appeared as this past 2 years. Unsure why, but there have been reports of a few 200 pounders being caught – I have not seen one this year despite trying on quite a number of occasions for them. Conger good. A lot more Haddock around the Limeburner than this past 4 or 5 years – hope that continues. And some Cod – twice have caught 2 or 3 Cod on a wreck on a single visit.

Weather has greatly improved this past few weeks and perhaps has something to do with some really nice fishing days.

- quote by a member of East Belfast Sea Angling Club as they re- obliterated the club records for Turbot caught in a day. Super Turbot fishing on board the Rosguill with 43 Turbot and Brill caught. Best angler with a new club record – 8 Turbot.

The same club had fantastic Turbot fishing in 2010 on board the Rosguill & believed that day could not be beaten. Amazing.

Fishing has improved. Poor Tope & Conger but other species not so bad. Mackeral still unusually patchy for mid June.

Top photo shows a Pollack which had just eaten a Launce.

Bottom photo shows that the Launce had just eaten a Sandeel.

Stubbornly, the quality of fishing like the weather fails to improve greatly. There are, however, a few good signs – the Pollack reef fishing this past 4 years or so has been particularily bad – but this year at Tory Island the Pollack reef fishing is effectively back to the good old days. Tope also are fairly good.

Fishing has improved with reasonable showing of Tope, some Spurdogs, medium sized Turbot, lots of Mackeral, reef Pollack. Lost 2 probably Porbeagle runs and after a 35 minute battle with a Common Skate, it spat the hook.

The worst of the May winter weather has gone to be replaced by more summer unsettled weather.

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Fishing remains poor after a bout of very bad weather lasting around 5 weeks. Water temperature 10 degrees centigrade. A few nice Pollack on the wrecks, some whiting still around. Sand average. Weather is set to settle & fingers crossed!

Poor fishing this weekend. A few Mackeral. A few other fish, but not a lot going. Lost a couple Tope in the Swilly.

Mackeral have gotten less plentiful. Wreck fishing not as good as in April. Reports of Tope & Porbeagle around.