Fishing in latter half of July has returned to normal. Fairly good fishing at the Limeburner with the usual species, Grey,Red &Tub Gurnards, Haddock, Cod, Whiting, Spurdog, LSD etc. (few Haddock, Cod & Whiting but some). Mackeral are now abundant and water temp is 14.5 – 15 Centigrade.
Blue Shark still have not shown – another Charter boat spent 1 day looking.
Tope are inconsistent – some days 4 runs and others 20 or 30 runs.
Rays are good and flatfish also. Wrecks fishing well although no more Torsk. No Scad so far – last year there were a few around even in June.
The Rosguill boated its first Common Skate of 2007 – Female of 144 pounds – lost another run on same day.

Very nice Brill from Tory Island

Big Ling and happy angler

First Common Skate of 2007

First Blue Shark of the season was landed by another charter boat from Downings on 28 July 2007

Fishing has improved with still the odd bad day – one particularily bad one at Tory Island. Really good day on the wrecks when along with good Pollack & Ling, very unusually caught 5 nice Cod to 7 pounds. Tope back in their full glory with 30 runs in 3 hours. Loads of Mackeral and Limeburner fishing OK. Water temperature now around 57 degrees Farenheit/almost 14 Centigrade.
5 Wreck Cod!!!

Weather remains unsettled and fishing inconsistent.
Tope – the Rosguill had its best ever day on 10 June with 52 runs and 30 Tope boated – only to return on 19 June and NIL – NULL – NOTHING – ZIP – NEIT
Wrecks producing reasonable Pollack, vey poor Ling fishing. Limeburner grounds OK – small numbers of Haddock, Spurdog, small Cod etc. (plus the usual 3 Gurnards)
Sand normal – great days and poor days.
Nice Plaice

This past week saw fairly poor fishing after such a great season so far. Whole day Tope fishing – no Tope! Very few fish on the sand and wrecks mediocre.
East wind???
Nice wreck Cod

Mid June & fishing is going well. Good numbers of fish and species. Lost 2 Porbeagles, but boated good numbers of Tope. Coalfish on wrecks – hard to get to the Pollack & Ling. Ray & Flatfish good. Rosguill boated its first ever Hake.

The Tope are back for 2007. Reasonable numbers – usual sizes, 20 to 40 pounds.

Dutch angler, Piet Van Dorp, landed a specimen Torsk which just squeezed in at 6.03 pounds.

Fishing to date has ben reasonably OK. Lots of Mackeral, wrecks have been fishing OK – though small Coalfish have now arrived!

Tried first week for Tope – none. Few flatfish and Rays.

April saw the start of the fishing season for the Rosguill and surprisingly there are a lot of Mackeral around, especially about the Limeburner grounds. The Audacious had one poor day and one OK day. Good numbers of Whiting although mostly very small. Surface Water temperature was 10 degrees Centigrade during the spell of good weather but fell half a degree when the wind came.