WEATHER: North Easterly, Gale force winds, Rainy at times with complete cloud cover.
TACKLE: Pike spinning rods with 80lbs braid.
12ft carp rod with 30lbs Mono.
Large selection of lures, Deep/Shallow divers, poppers, spinners, jerkbaits etc..
Landing net, scales, unhooking equipment.
METHODS: Spinning and trawling.
Fishing between shelfs, shallow rocky water, and along a long shelf with a big rock at end of shelf.
Went out fishing a lough in Monaghan on Saturday. Wind was very very strong and made the fishing really difficult.
Done some spinning with no luck, so decide to trawl a variety of lures.
After trawling for only afew minutes I got a serious knock but no hook-up.
Continued on that line then swung around to cover the ground agian, great success after using a deep diving plug in about 6-8m of water.
Hooked up to a decent pike that gave me a great scrap,running left, right, shallow, deep, front back sides and under the boat.
I managed to land it, get to the bank, give it some watering, weighed and picture within about 2minutes.
Weighed in at 12lbs 8oz.
Done some spinning with no luck, so decide to trawl a variety of lures.
After trawling for only afew minutes I got a serious knock but no hook-up.
Continued on that line then swung around to cover the ground agian, great success after using a deep diving plug in about 6-8m of water.
Hooked up to a decent pike that gave me a great scrap,running left, right, shallow, deep, front back sides and under the boat.
I managed to land it, get to the bank, give it some watering, weighed and picture within about 2minutes.
Weighed in at 12lbs 8oz.
Continued trawling after that, had a few knocks but nothing connected.
Switched to a large Alien eel lure, quite deep lure but fished it over shallow ground, thought I caught the bottom but my reel screamed out line, but gave up shortly, an 8lb fish was in the net.
.Switched to a large Alien eel lure, quite deep lure but fished it over shallow ground, thought I caught the bottom but my reel screamed out line, but gave up shortly, an 8lb fish was in the net.
Few more jacks over the day but 12lb 8oz was the best weight and my PB.