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Fishing in Dun Laoghaire

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  • 20-05-2014 8:08pm
    #1
    CiscoDisco
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭


    Does anyone know anything about fishing in dun laoghaire can you fish off the peir and or is ther any other good spots along that coast bray into town direction?


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    #2
    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    You'll only get the odd small fish inside the Harbour, you'd have better luck fishing from the ends of either Pier. Try Killiney Beach, better fishing

    21/25



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    Nodster
    Registered Users Posts: 949 ✭✭✭Nodster


    Inside the harbour at the end of the East Pier [out 80+ yards can hook some nice plaice]
    Tight lines ;)


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    MarcinG
    Registered Users Posts: 356 ✭✭MarcinG


    Any good spots around for spinning? I mostly do spinning in fresh water for pike and perch but they are letting me down big time this year (tiny little jacks etc). I managed to get some pollack of east pier in dun laoghaire last year but only small fish (20-30cm with few odd ones in 50cm range). Not a single bite from other pier. Also got once some of slightly bigger pollock/cod (and few pollock 70cm+ managed to escape few feet away from landing net) from kayak (near shaganagh cliffs) not too far out but no luck from shore there. I tried around bray head from boat year before - without luck (got mackerel few times and some dogfish).
    I have decent inflatable boat with outboard and float tube (useless in sea currents i guess).

    i'm using either pilk like spoons, blade lures and red tail plastics.


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    EmptyTree
    Registered Users Posts: 748 ✭✭✭EmptyTree


    I've always thought it strange that Dun Laoghaire harbour wouldn't be much better for fishing. I don't mean at the end of the pier, but within the actual harbour itself.


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    wiz569
    Registered Users Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭wiz569


    EmptyTree wrote: »
    I've always thought it strange that Dun Laoghaire harbour wouldn't be much better for fishing. I don't mean at the end of the pier, but within the actual harbour itself.

    Used to fish inside the harbour were the commercial fishing boats docked, this is going back 35-40 yrs, but fishing was good then, mainly pollack and mackerel and the odd mullet :)

    God I feel old lol


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    HappyDaze007
    Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭HappyDaze007


    I got the young lad in to the fishing 6 months ago, he loves going to the band stand where we could catch nothing but pin whiting and the odd small codling, nothing to brag about but the young lad was astactic, we had to walk to the end of the pier to catch (Sunday) we've not had a blank yet although fish is poor but still, keeps the young lad entertained..
    Keep within the harbour as the other side is just tackle snagging stuff unless float fishing id say..

    With the weather suppose to good this weekend and the tide coming towards dusk things should be good... btw.. we used rag....

    tight lines folks..


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