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July 13th, 2008
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Went to west cork lastnight at low tide good vis in places saw no bass but huge numbers of mullet. Strange to see so many in one place, all around and beneath me including some large ones. Didn't spear anything.
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July 13th, 2008
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Saturday I went West, to a big headland, to try for some pollack.The wind was forecast Northwest, which would have been good. What it actually did was to blow from Southwest, which made a chop. I found few decent pollack and ended the day with one 4.2lb fish.
Today went much better! I went East this time, to try a rock one mile offshore, but sheltered from the Southwest wind by a big headland. When I got there I counted seven seals entering the water and most of the time a seals head was poking up nearby. In spite of that I saw good pollack from the first dive and soon had one, the biggest of the day as it turned out. Three angling boats arrived shortly after, towing lures round the rock in wide circles. I didn't fancy being hooked so I moved to the nearby rocky point that the boats had come from. The fish I saw caught by the boats were all small. I did better in both spots, catching 5 fish off the point to total 6 pollack in 30 dives. 2008_07130002.JPG 2008_07130004.JPG 6.5lbs, 5.9lbs, 4.5lbs, 4.2lbs, 3.4lbs and 2.9lbs. The rocky point can be seen in the background of the second photo.
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July 13th, 2008
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Im from kilmore Quay in wexford there are great spots for bass and big big pollock out at the saltee islands the vis is usually quite good there to.
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#499
July 13th, 2008
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Welcome irishhunter, good to find a spearo from the sunny south east. i've been hearing stories of big bass in the waterford/wexford region on angling sites. have you speared anything big yourself
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July 13th, 2008
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Thanks bf il try that. Anyone hear how feargus got on?
Hi irishhunter, welcome to the board. interested to hear a few reports from your kneck of the woods. I was just wondering donnachad, do u not like mullet? or was it just not that sporting with so many all around?
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#501
July 14th, 2008
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message posted by Bennyb who was at the double dip comp:
"I just got back from the comp. Feargus did some great dives, he did a 25m Free Immersion dive on Saturday and got a white card (= successful dive). Today he was attempting a 35m Constant Weight dive but unfortunately was disqualified for a rule violation before the dive. I think he also had equalisation problems and didn't make the depth. But he was still smiling at the end of the day. I think the shock for all was that Feargus wasn't the only Irishman there! Brian Daly also competed and had a successful 30m Constant Weight Dive and 35m Free Immersion dive, which I think are both Irish records. Word on the street is that they're both working on an Irish team... Nice work to the pair o' paddies!"
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July 14th, 2008
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Thanks for the support lads I posted a small report in the good luck thread. I will try to follow up with some pics etc shortly. Back to work tomorrow.
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July 14th, 2008
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well done guys.
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July 14th, 2008
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hi,
my first ever spearfished fish. fished couple weeks ago in Dalkey. took me 3 hours to find fish and speared. i found lot of small pollock , size was to small. i try to go out more this week. hope get more luck. 
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#505
July 14th, 2008
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nice mullet danas. how was he to eat? never tried them and never bothered to spear one either.....congrats on your first catch
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#506
July 15th, 2008
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hi guys! Yesterday in Beara Peninsula i cutch conger,i was tryed before many years ago smoked eel from fresh water ,but i dont know how is better cooking conger from sea,is it test good or bad?
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#507
July 15th, 2008
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pollack taste to me much nicer. my family like to eat fish. i eat all kind of fish.
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July 15th, 2008
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They are not the same to eat as a freshwater eel but are still good to eat. Once they are more than a few pounds weight they get difficult to kill and they can bite a bit too. Huan Tan - Comments/Description Check out the conger on the above link.
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#509
July 15th, 2008
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congrats !!! it is many more in there  waiting to be speared. how deep was fish?
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