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CORK ANGLING
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Fishing in Cork & County Cork |
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Ballycotton - East Cork Angling |
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Ballycotton has on offer two deep sea
licensed charter boats based in
Ballycotton Harbour. Fish which can be
caught here would include blue shark,
conger, pollack, ling, coalfish,
garfish, pouting, whiting, wrasse etc.
Garryvoe offers shore fishing, and
catches can include thornback and
painted ray, bass, conger, dogfish,
codling, whiting and flatfish. Also
worth a try are the shore fishing from
Ballybranigan Beach for pollack and
mackerel and conger eels, Ballycroneen
for good wrasse fishing, also pollack
and mackerel, Ballyandreen for flatfish,
bass, coalfish. Launching near
Ballycotton Harbour small boat fishing
offers ray, flatfish and dogfish. Best
to fish in June to October for
blue shark and September to December for
ray, codling, dogfish, flatfish. |
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Bantry - West Cork Angling |
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Bantry Bay and Beara Peninsula offers
the following fishing areas for various
species:
Ballydonegan Strand offers bass and flat
fish on sandy beach at mouth of stream.
The pier offers dogfish and flatfish.
Dursey Rocks offer good wrasse fishing
on north western side of cable car and
pollack and mackerel. Dursey Sound
offers fishing for wrasse and spinning
for pollack. D.O.D Pier offers thornback
ray and dogfish and mullet. Coarrid
Point enjoy fishing for ray, dogfish,
conger and three bearded rockling.
Zetland Pier the Angler can fish for
flatfish and dogfish. Coomhola Estuary
enjoy fishing for flounder. Reenydonegan
Lake fish for dogfish and flounder and
some thornback ray. Bantry Pier offers
fishing for conger and dogfish. Gerahies
Pier has fishing for mullet and conger.
Goats Path has mackerel and pollack and
wrasse. Collack has wrasse and pollack. |
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Beara Peninsula - West Cork Angling |
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Beara Peninsula deep sea angling has
three deep sea licensed charter boats
based in Castletownbere offering blue
shark, ling, pollack, haddock and
coalfish in the area. Good shore fishing
can be found at Dursey Sound where the
Angler can find wrasse and pollack
and with bass on offer at
Ballydonegan beach. September to
November are the best time for shore
fishing for bass, pollack and wrasse.
Bantry Bay, Kenmare Bay allow small
boats to operate and fishing there can
provide ray, huss, flatfish, spurdog and
conger. General fishing off reefs off
Castletownbere is good. |
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Cork Harbour - Cork Angling |
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Cork Harbour has 10 deep sea licensed
charter boats based in Crosshaven,
Glenbrook, Cobh and East Ferry and all
boats have tackle hire. Fishing June to
October offers Blue shark. The Angler
can choose from pier, beach, estuary and
rocks which can yield a wide range of
species such as wrasse, conger, bass,
ray, codling, dogfish, mullet, mackerel,
dabs, plaice, flounder and whiting.
Small boat fishing offers very good bass
fishing in Summer. From June to October
best to fish for blue shark, and all
year round for cod and ray, and
September to January, shore angling
offers codling, whiting, coalfish and
dabs. Cod and whiting best caught during
the hours of darkness, Cobh would be a
good area. |
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Kinsale - West Cork Angling |
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Kinsale Sea Angling has several licensed
charter boats in Kinsale. Species on
offer include blue shark, pollack,
ling, conger and coalfish. The famous
Ling rocks good for pollack, ling, cod,
and conger and the wreck of the
Lusitania, close to the Old Head of
Kinsale. Onshore fishing at Bandon
Estuary good for bass and flounder and
Garretstown Strand offers good bass
fishing. Small boat fishing in Sandy
Cover offers flatfish and dogfish and
bass. Best time to fish for blue shark
being June to October.
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Mizen Head Peninsula - West Cork Angling |
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Mizen Head Peninsula offers deep Sea
Angling using Charter boats based at
Schull and Goleen. Reefs off Mizen Head
offers excellent pollack fishing also on
offer are the blue shark, conger, bull
huss, ling, coalfish, cod and pouting
and some of the best haddock fishing in
Ireland. The Angler may also come across
the common skate and thornback ray. The
best shore fishing areas include
Crookhaven, Barley Cove and Dunmanus for
pollack, wrasse, dogfish, bull huss,
flounder, conger, dabs and wrasse and in
Ballydehob Harbour are sea trout and
bass. Schull & Goleen offer good small
boat fishing for ray, dogfish, plaice
and some turbot and Dunmanus Bay offers
wrasse, pollack and conger. |
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Clonakilty, Union Hall, Baltimore - West
Cork Angling |
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West Cork has licensed deep sea charter
boats based at Clonakilty, Union Hall
and Baltimore and allows for fishing of
blue shark, reef and wreck fishing.and
the species on offer here can be pollack,
coalfish, conger, cod, common skate etc.
On shore fishing at Clonakilty estuary &
Inchydoney beach allows for bass fishing
while large mullet and gilthead bream
can be found at Rosscarbery Estuary.
Clonakilty, Union Hall and Baltimore
goof for ray, dogfish, flatfish, bull
huss, pollack, wrasse and conger by
small boat. |
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East Cork |
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Knockadoon Head fishing here offers
pollock & mackerel and wrasse, conger
eels and dogfish. Ballymacoda can offer
flounder, plaice and dogfish. Youghal
Quay can offer the Angler mackerel,
conger eels, rockling, codling, whiting
and coalfish. Pilmore area offer
flounder, bass, and dogfish. The Abbey
Youghal and the area across from it
offers fishing for flounder, or bass in
late Summer. |
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Courtmacsherry - West Cork Angling |
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Courtmacsherry, Angling in West Cork
offers shore fishing for bass and
flounder. Mullet can be fished for at
Timoleague and conger at Courtmacsherry
Pier. Timoleague is good for small boat
fishing for bass and ray, flatfish and
dogfish in the bay.
When to Fish: Seven Heads offers fishing
for the common skate. |
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Last modified:
Sunday November 20, 2011
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