Sunny Tralee Bay Fishing

We started of the day by going back to Derrymore strand on this glorious spring day. We had no idea where to go when we got down there as we had never been there before. We ended up just a couple hundred yards from the first entrance. On my first cast I mounted half a crab on a size 1-0 hook. As I cast into the dark deep murky waters immediately I could feel the fish were on the way to my bait. And within 5 minutes I had a bite. It had the characteristics of a flounder. I left it for a minute before reeling it in. It was a flounder and it had swallowed the hook.

 As dad unhooked the fish I recast using the same bait. We put the fish back and I went to my rod I noticed another bite I knew what it was strait way it couldn't be mistaken. It was a bass and it put up a good fight. In the end up it turned out to be 45cm. Not my biggest but not my smallest either, he went back safe and sound.

We got nothing for about another hour after that. I set up my shimano vengeance estuary rod and cast it out. My ragworm bait tempted my first ever plaice. It was 20 cm long and fought hard on my little estuary rod. Sometimes its hard to identify small plaice from founder. A good tip is looking at the underside. if there is a herrinbone effect then its a plaice. A flounders underside is plain white

 Nothing was caught after that so we decided to pack up and go to the pier in Fenit.

We arrived and I decided to bait up for wrasse.The hot weather we've been having has drawn in plenty of different species. One of which is the wrasse this hard fighting little species is a must do on light tackle. I dropped down my gear and within minutes I had a bite and it was a perfect Corkwing Wrasse.

 We just hit the right spot and  it went on like this for about 2 hours,  non stop fish after fish. We left and went for chips and that ended our day in tralee bay.

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Tight lines 

Eoin Angler

Co. Kerry 

Ireland