Graeme Pullen well known English Angling Journalist with Dutch and Irish anglers had good sport with the Blues off Courtmacsherry on the 18th June.We steamed to a position just south of the wreck site of the Lusitania where the ground fishing is good there, in the event of no Blues showing up.The rubby was organised by Graeme and his son Mike and with a slight breeze from the west we had a good trail going.With the tea just made the first run went off at 1300hrs followed by another ,then another,I thought first that we were going to have the mother of all tangles but we actually had 3 Blues on at the same time,Mike was first to land his, a Fish of 1.6m,Jack Chalane my nephew just turned 13 showed us why hes so good at Football and Hurling using his strength to finally land a Blue of 1.96m after a struggle lasting 30mins.Another was landed by Mike soon after followed by  Chris and Geerts with 2 fine fish with the 2 Martins(Martin Langeveld and Martin Klock) landing the last 2,one a fish of 1.96m.With 7 runs we landed 7 and tagged 7 a sucessful days sharking.We also caught plenty of big whiting and haddock.(see Gallery)

With an English group catching good Pollack,Cod,Ling and conger.The Belgians landing conger to double figures and the Dutch landing Skate to 160 and 70 lbs and catching loads of Pollack and conger ,Catching the first Shark of the Year and landing over 40 Ling off a wreck it has been a great weeks fishing Congrats to all,Make sure you look up the Pic Gallery.

On Sunday the 17th May the Lady Patricia skippered by Niall O Sullivan, fishing with anglers from England,Lithuania,Turkey and Ireland caught Pollack.Cod ,Pouting,Wrasse,conger and Vadimas Litvinovas landed a Skate of 159 lbs.The fish which was returned was a female with a length of 78inches and a wingspan of 60 inches.2 other skate were hooked but after a long fight both fish were lost as the fish spat the hook.(see Gallery)

Last weekend produced some good results ,fishing on the inshore reefs produced Cod to 5 kg,Pollack to 4kg and some good conger and ling.Mackerel were being caught but were patchy.(see Gallery)