Glorious killybegs and giants jumping.

Hi all,
By a stroke of amazing luck last Sunday the 4th of September the forecast changed for the better at the last minute. With the forecast being up and down all week we had near give up when the forecast changed for the better on Saturday morning. So car packed and down to Killybegs for the night for an early start on Sunday.

Not as calm as hoped , 5am.
5am came and it was blowing a stiff breeze and was no where near settled enough to think about heading out. So it was back to bed for another hour until it got bright at least.
6am still a bit breezy but it was still breezy but we where well sheltered from the land.
So a slow rig up and out we went, witha good session on the ballan wrasse, squid and maybe some cod.

First stop was not very far away, but it is a regular spot for fantastic sized cuckoo wrasse. But they were no where to be seen. It was very quiet we had a couple of small ballans and that was it.
So on we went to another mark close in and I was looking for cuckoo's and ballan wrasse.
They were at home and we had some good fishing but none of them of any real size. But big enough for a good scrap on the light gear.

They were good fun and we had quiet a few over the next hour or so.

So with a change in order I upped my bait sizes in hope of ling or small conger and as fished one rod for wrasse the other was baited with mackerel and sandeel with a dose of Bioedge shrimp wand.
It wasn't down very long altogether when I got a nice take and a short wrestle brought up a grand ling of 4.4lb I was happy with that.

That was a good start but still no decent cuckoos', another move along the ledges produced lots of ballan and at last the cuckoo's came out to feed. We had a good few none breaking the specimen size but great to see them. 

Some cracking colors in the male cuckoo's. 

Again the heavier set up was doing it's thing fishing away and again another good take, this fight felt decent and was similar to a conger kind of fight with out to much reverse fighting from him. 

But to my surprise it was a very nice bullhuss. Also nearly jet black. One cool looking huss.

We were having a blast and the fish were flying in, many different species. At least 15 in total and this little comedian came in ink the hell out of the kayak as he buggered off lol.

I also managed a good few goldenshinney, they are comical how they wreck a small bait. If they grew to 10lb we would need wire traces for them.

With Mike spotting my fine Golden Shinney he was over to try poach my monster shinney lol. 

With that we where for heading out deep to see if we could catch a few of the rarer species that frequent the deeper water around Killybegs. 

But it was savage quiet out there. I had a few nice whiting and Mike's luck was in as he haul up 2 or 3 doggies up from 180ft of water. I was crying laughing. 

This was us some 1.75 miles out. Ah it was glorious out there. All that was needed was for Mike to get another doggie out of that depth lol. 

But a\as we were about to head back What sounded like a huge wave crashing turned out to be huge tuna. One was a monstrous size and the rest were around the 300lb plus size. We paddled around a few times and saw the 3 more times over the next hour. It was an unbelievable sight and was worth the trip just to see them. We were not close enough to get any pics but maybe the next time I'll get a few on camera.

But with that it  was time for home and we had a few stops for bait. Hitting some fine scad 1 of which was 1oz shy of specimen weight. I also had the camera down and got some very unusual video of squid and mackerel working together. So if I can clean it up enough I'll get that video up soon.

Thanks for reading tight lines everyone.