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Weird days fishing on Ramor....

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  • 19-03-2012 8:40pm
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    shamwari
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    A few of us fished Lough Ramor this morning at the harbour in Virginia. Between us, we caught around 20 small roach on spinners, and most of these were caught by foul-hooking - usually through the back. I've never caught a roach before on a spinner, let alone seen so many caught by simple foul hooking like this.

    Anyone seen this before and / or have an explanation for it....:confused:


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    Quiggers59
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    shamwari wrote: »
    A few of us fished Lough Ramor this morning at the harbour in Virginia. Between us, we caught around 20 small roach on spinners, and most of these were caught by foul-hooking - usually through the back. I've never caught a roach before on a spinner, let alone seen so many caught by simple foul hooking like this.

    Anyone seen this before and / or have an explanation for it....:confused:

    at this time of year the Roach are probably shoaling up for spawning,so you may be running a spinner through huge shoals of roach. In such a situation it might be best to change method or location as foul hooking fish is not the hobby we choose It's a personal opinion so please do not take it as a pompous lecture.


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    Bizzum
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    Quiggers59 wrote: »
    at this time of year the Roach are probably shoaling up for spawning,so you may be running a spinner through huge shoals of roach. In such a situation it might be best to change method or location as foul hooking fish is not the hobby we choose It's a personal opinion so please do not take it as a pompous lecture.

    Close but no cigar!
    The Roach spawn there in the Murmod river generally early may (water temp/level dependant). This time of the year, or more specifically from about Nov to April, the Boatpond/Harbour area is packed thick with Roach, Hybrids and perch. So as suggested above you were simply spinning through thousands of fish.

    This is the one of the reasons the single barbless hook/no keepnets Bye Law is in place there in the Boatpond.


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    shamwari
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    Thanks for the opinions. We were there for pike and moved elsewhere to another lake - our line of thinking was that the presence of pike would have scared the roach away, so, so many roach = zero pike. No joy either at the other lake. Incidentally, we were fishing in the lake where it met the river, a few others fishing in the harbour itself had no luck, which I think was unusual for it.


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    Bizzum
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    shamwari wrote: »
    our line of thinking was that the presence of pike would have scared the roach away, so, so many roach = zero pike.

    Not a chance! There are millions of them there.
    This time of the year it's more likely the pike are thinking of spawning and are off for the reeds.

    Personally I think it's time to leave the girls alone to spawn buts thats another debate!

    What other lake did you try today?


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    shamwari
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    Bizzum wrote: »

    What other lake did you try today?
    Mullagh lake. Dead as the preverbial door nail today. Tried it last year and had a very good day then.


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