Summertime
The fish have been jumping but it has been a bit more difficult to entice them to take. Having said that we have landed 8 since my last update which considering the low water, high temperatures, clear blue skies and calm conditions is actually excellent.
Paddy Laverty was first off the mark on Doolough on the 3rd with a relatively fresh fish of 10lbs from Fisherman’s Bay. Peter Davis also had one off Fin on an Ally shrimp weighing in at 8lbs11ozs.
We managed to land three on the 7th, two off Doo, with Manfred Wolf having one of 11lbs at the Boat Pier and Kurt Roth landing one of 9lbs from the Ivy Rocks. Finally Charles Harbottle had a fish of 7lbs2ozs off Fin on a Delphi Collie at 25mins to midnight (which even Urs would consider late!!).
The 8th, Barry Brown had a sea liced fish of 3lbs8ozs off Fin on a Delphi Collie.
Finally yesterday the old maestro himself John Mills got the Willie Gunn back into fashion when he landed a fish of 9lbs8ozs off Finlough. Amazingly it was John’s first fish of the year; so well done to him.
D.McEvoy