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Shore fishing near Ballyconneely(Galway)

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  • 02-07-2013 1:32pm
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    Moycullen1
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    Hi All,

    I am relatively new to sea angling. My life has been spent trout and salmon fishing but I am keen to give sea angling a proper go. I am going camping with my kids to Ballyconneely and would love to know what I could expect to catch from the shore and how to do so. I have experimented with different techniques over the years including fly-fishing from the shore for bass in Kerry but I would like to try something that others have found successful in Connemara.

    Would try anything, ledgering, spinning etc, etc. All advice greatly appreciated.


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    astonaidan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭astonaidan


    Moycullen1 wrote: »
    Hi All,

    I am relatively new to sea angling. My life has been spent trout and salmon fishing but I am keen to give sea angling a proper go. I am going camping with my kids to Ballyconneely and would love to know what I could expect to catch from the shore and how to do so. I have experimented with different techniques over the years including fly-fishing from the shore for bass in Kerry but I would like to try something that others have found successful in Connemara.

    Would try anything, ledgering, spinning etc, etc. All advice greatly appreciated.

    Might be a bit late, but what I would do there is just use a beach caster and german sprats spinners, old school I know, but it does the job.
    The main fish I get there is pollock and sometimes mackerel


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    Moycullen1
    Registered Users Posts: 223 ✭✭Moycullen1


    astonaidan wrote: »
    Might be a bit late, but what I would do there is just use a beach caster and german sprats spinners, old school I know, but it does the job.
    The main fish I get there is pollock and sometimes mackerel

    Thanks for that. I had a good look around when I was out there and will definitely bring the gear out later in the summer. I saw a lot of sand eels in the water so might even try for a sea bass in the surf. A local told me they get the odd one out there. Good stock of flat fish also which can be gotten by dragging lug worm slowly along the bottom.


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