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

All is as expected – water temperature now up to 10.5 Celcius. Wrecks producing lots of Coalfish and some reasonable Pollack and Ling. Limeburner fishing good for the time of year and Mackeral available although can be extremely patchy. Season will shortly be getting into full swing.

April & season starts mixed. Water temperature is low – end April at 8 to 8.5 Celcius.
Reasonable numbers of Mackeral around and couple of Herring. Lots & lots of small Coalfish. Fished the Audacious and could only get small Coalfish – not enough Mackeral so guys had to use feathers & jellys. Tried the Devonian & Roscommon using whole Mackeral to keep the coalfish away and had reasonable numbers of good sized Pollack and Ling. Limeburner grounds fishing as expected for April – few fish, Red Gurnards & couple Whiting.
Looking forward to May and onwards……………

2007 season ends well. October fishing was good. Looking at the season as a whole the really big story is the numbers of Blue & Porbeagle Sharks and the size of the Porbeagles. Blues made a real comeback in 2007 with average runs per day in the region of 4/5. There were quite a number of Porbeagles caught in the 80 – 90 pound range.

The Rosguill had the following 38 species caught during 2007:-
Mackeral
Herring
Cod
Pollack
Coalfish
Ling
Common Skate
Blue Shark
Porbeagle Shark
Tope
Whiting
Spurdog
Plaice
Turbot
Dab
Flounder
Brill
Thornback Ray
Homelyn Ray
Cuckoo Ray
Blonde Ray
Ballan Wrasse
Cuckoo Wrasse
Tub Gurnard
Red Gurnard
Grey Gurnard
Haddock
Lesser Spotted dogfish
Conger
Scad
Torsk
Poor Cod
Pouting
Lesser Weever
Sandeel
Long Spined Sea Scorpion
Hake
Garfish

Rosguill’s first ever Garfish caught close to the Laurentic

Rosguill spent her first day Shark fishing – 7 runs – landed 5 Blue Shark and a 30 pound Porbeagle.
Also caught a 80 pound Porbeagle which was hitting Pollack while on a wreck trip to the Empire Heritage.

The Rosguill has not been doing much fishing recently (been taking divers out), but there are good reports of Blue Shark & Porbeagle Shark.

Fishing in latter half of July has returned to normal. Fairly good fishing at the Limeburner with the usual species, Grey,Red &Tub Gurnards, Haddock, Cod, Whiting, Spurdog, LSD etc. (few Haddock, Cod & Whiting but some). Mackeral are now abundant and water temp is 14.5 – 15 Centigrade.
Blue Shark still have not shown – another Charter boat spent 1 day looking.
Tope are inconsistent – some days 4 runs and others 20 or 30 runs.
Rays are good and flatfish also. Wrecks fishing well although no more Torsk. No Scad so far – last year there were a few around even in June.
The Rosguill boated its first Common Skate of 2007 – Female of 144 pounds – lost another run on same day.

Very nice Brill from Tory Island

Big Ling and happy angler

First Common Skate of 2007

First Blue Shark of the season was landed by another charter boat from Downings on 28 July 2007

Fishing has improved with still the odd bad day – one particularily bad one at Tory Island. Really good day on the wrecks when along with good Pollack & Ling, very unusually caught 5 nice Cod to 7 pounds. Tope back in their full glory with 30 runs in 3 hours. Loads of Mackeral and Limeburner fishing OK. Water temperature now around 57 degrees Farenheit/almost 14 Centigrade.
5 Wreck Cod!!!

Weather remains unsettled and fishing inconsistent.
Tope – the Rosguill had its best ever day on 10 June with 52 runs and 30 Tope boated – only to return on 19 June and NIL – NULL – NOTHING – ZIP – NEIT
Wrecks producing reasonable Pollack, vey poor Ling fishing. Limeburner grounds OK – small numbers of Haddock, Spurdog, small Cod etc. (plus the usual 3 Gurnards)
Sand normal – great days and poor days.
Nice Plaice

This past week saw fairly poor fishing after such a great season so far. Whole day Tope fishing – no Tope! Very few fish on the sand and wrecks mediocre.
East wind???
Nice wreck Cod

Mid June & fishing is going well. Good numbers of fish and species. Lost 2 Porbeagles, but boated good numbers of Tope. Coalfish on wrecks – hard to get to the Pollack & Ling. Ray & Flatfish good. Rosguill boated its first ever Hake.