Skipper’s Diary | Kilmore Angling

Thirsday 22th May

Weather Outlook

Tomorrow’s weather is good light wind’s and warm , Saturday on the other hand is looking windy and wet although will stay dry in the Southeast Sunday is windy with SW wind and heavy showers . the early days of next week remains unsettled but from friday the weather settles again with wind easing.

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Next Availability : the first week in June

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Fishing Reports for May 2025

Tuesday 29th & Wednesday 30th

The weather was very fine Sunshine & calm seas for the two days , With the Swansea boys on board the craic was good too And now to the fishing which saw plenty of Pollack and some good ones landed too , with Cod Coley Wrasse and we also landed a Bass which got me thinking about the next days, every fish was returned alive today including the Bass. and along came Wednesday and we were on the Bass from the start but we left them to fish the far Eastern marks when the tide suited, there we landed lots of Pollack again with some Coley and Wrasse then when the tide turned and got strong to East we moved to a Bass mark and Landed and returned over 20. summing up we had a great couple days out with all Fish returned alive

Thursday 1st May

The morning session saw good Bass Fishing every one landed some then it was on to the East marks again but today the fish were very shy there compared to the previous day we had few more Bass on the way home, every one had a good day, the Bass on the light gear made it

Friday May 9th

Went West to Hook Hd Grounds I hadn’t being up to there for a couple years we always done well there but today it was very disappointing just a few fish there might be other factors at play up there which i wont go into here

Saturday May 10th

South of the islands today for the slack tide fishing was good there and plenty good fish landed too while the tide was easy , eventually the tide made strong and we mover into inside marks which didn’t produce much only small pollack . everyone had good day especially the two novices who landed the most I saw one lad get 4 large Pollack together.

Saturday evening Bass Trip

Out lure fishing for Bass this evening and we were straight into them from the start we landed 15 Bass (best was 65 cm) (Florin landed 8 bass) we were also getting very nice Pollack ,total for the evening was 15 bass of which 11 were released and about 50 Pollack half were released thanks to lads for that

Tuesday May13th

Paul and lads out today and a great day out it was too , even though the chill was still in the air . the Fishing was steady all day and some vey good Pollack landed on the lures and some good cod too, the fish came steady all day

Wednesday 14thMay

Out this morning with a small crew plenty fish and some really good size ones mostly Pollack and some Codling through them

Evening trip

Evening trip for the bass Pollack about but we only landed 1 Bass . thats bass fishing for ya

Thursday 16 May

Small crew out today . Gentry from Dublin thats enough said on that. We were out on the outside marks in the morning and midday and was plenty of good Pollack on the go Paddy got a very nice Cod all in all a good day out with friends

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Uptiding Winter Fishing

As the Autumn roll’s on and winter approaches Autumn Dream will be changing tactics too . During the April to October season we generally fish clean water with good visibility and mostly on the drift , as Winter approaches the sea bed sediments get stirred up with bad weather reducing water visibility to zero at times , to counteract this we must Anchor up and fish with bait (uptiding) drawing Fish to us, species like Huss, Conger, Tope, Cod, Ling, Bass and others.

Will be starting fishing at anchor on the week starting 18th November (neap tides)

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Lure Fishing Trips

I do Lure Fishing Trips its great fun on light gear (spinning rods) For Bass (bag limit 2 fish per person) Pollack ( Min Size 40cm) & Cod (min size 40cm) with some fish to double figures. we prefer persons have own gear but we can supply, I would recommend Weston Sandy Andy or Savage lures, of at least 20g to 40g for shallow Marks and 40g to 60g for the deeper marks

Murphys Tackle, Wexford for all your equipment for lure fishing

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Clean Ground Fishing 2025 season

Autumn Dream will be exploring clean ground fishing on the Sandbanks and in the Sandpeaks targeting Plaice, Brill, Turbot, Blond Ray , Cuckoo ray, Sandy ray, Painted ray ,etc

I will be drawing on the many years of experience fishing these grounds many years ago catching the above species, these same grounds haven’t being fished for decades now. the first trips to this ground will start in late spring

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Tope trips

November 2024

Tope were still about in November in deeper water East of the Bore Reef in 30m water

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Whale & Dolphin Trips

The whales were spotted just West of Saltee isl the last week of April a pod of about 15 Minke whales

and a couple were East of the Little Saltee Isl the 1st May

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Regards Eamonn

Autumn Dream

087 2135308