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West Cork - Rock Fishing - Anything worth catching now?

  • 01-03-2013 10:52am
    #1
    trotter_inc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭


    Hey guys...

    Beginner angler here...I started fishing off the piers/rocks around the Clonakilty - Rosscarbery coast last summer, mainly catching mackerel and the odd pollock.

    I tried to find a calendar online which shows the species which are available to catch at the different times of years, but I am unable to find one. What's available to catch at this time of year around the West Cork coast? I know Mackerel aren't available until later in the year but is there anything worth catching now? Any tips on bait, lures, good fishing spots, etc would be appreciate too.

    Thanks for the help!


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  • #2
    mawk
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    Bass, codling, whiting, dogs, coal fish, pollack, flounder, should all be very catchable.

    Lots to be caught all year really. But its still kinda early for lure fishing in ernest. Bottom fishing with bait is a better choice now


  • #3
    .red.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,380 ✭✭✭.red.


    You might catch a few fish but at the moment it probably isnt worth the effort. The easterly wind for the last week will have killed off the fishing a little and the cold snap wont make it any easier.
    Try to find deepish water and use soft plastics and fish them very very slow and you might get lucky. If the easterlies pass and the weather/water warms up a little then it will start to pick up a bit.


  • #4
    mattcullen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 288 ✭✭mattcullen


    if you have a salmon and seatrout licence, try and find out is there any estuaries etc in the area where you can fish for them spinning lures such as hansen strippers, pboy jigs etc. maybe wait till the easterlies die off though

    never fished the area but maybe here?: http://www.rosscarbery.ie/fishing.php


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