Past week fishing has slowly being returning to normal.  Average fishing on the Limeburner and the Bays.  Had a good day on the Audacious with lots of good Pollack.

Cannot wait until this poor period ends.  Fished far wreck - 8 Pollack, 2 Ling and millions of Coalfish.

Seems to be a few Megrim around this year.  Two boated on Rosguill & another 2 on another local boat.

3 tope boated and another boat had a good number of runs.  Hopefully they will be here in numbers from now onwards.

Fishing remains poor to average.  Plenty of Mackeral.  Wrecks have loads of small Coalfish and few good Pollack and Ling.   Tory fishing poorly.  Limeburner and Bays fishing average. 

Rosguill saw her first Tope of 2008 - fine Tope of over 40 pounds - tagged and released.  However, just one Tope for early June was very disapointing.  Another small boat fishing nearby had 2 Tope - again, very disapointing.

Spoke to a local SCUBA diver - he stated that the visibility is absolutely atrocious at the moment & in his memory had only happened once before in 1997.  Then also the fishing had deteriorated, but had recovered in a few weeks when the vis had also improved………………..?????

Fishing on the last week of May has “nose dived”!      Wrecks have lots of small Coalfish and only a few Pollack - no numbers of good sized wreck Pollack and very few Ling.  The Limeburner grounds are fishing average but the Bays have simply stopped producing.

I suppose this is what “Fishing” is all about.

The weather has been fairly settled for around 8 weeks now with mostly east winds & I wonder has this affected the fishing? 

Rosguill had a 2.12 pound Red Gurnard - nice specimen.
Mackeral have returned - good numbers. Reports of Tope caught in Lough Swilly. Limeburner fishing well.
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The Rosguill headed to the Tope mark and no runs!!! In 2007 the Rosguill’s first trip to the Tope grounds was on 30 May and we had 20 runs that day. Mackeral almost completely dried up - on one day caught absolutely none. Rays & Flatfish in the Bays are fishing OK