Had a good day, weather good, walked up estuary and seen a large colony of seals basking on a sandbar. Started fishing but only caught one small sea trout which was realised unharmed. Over the course of the day I saw several good sea trout between 2 to 4lb. My fishing was interrupted when two large seals started hunting fish right in front of where I was wading and a large salmon breached twice close to where I was standing. NO point fishing when seals are hunting. So I walked back up the estuary and gathered cockles. I steeped the cockles overnight to allow them to expel the sand. The next morning I walked up cave hill and had some nice blackberries and hazel nuts from the hedges on the way up and down. When I got home I cooked up the cockles with spaghetti (Italian style) they call it vongole and use clams but it works well with cockles. Freebie from the sea delicious.
Hmmmm you've got my mouth watering. I haven't gathered cockles for years.
hi Glen
wer do u do ur fishing?
Club waters at Hollywood and Downpatrick or anywhere I can get a line in the water. How about you?
All over Ireland, big western lakes Mask and Conn,central lake Sheelin for trout,crappy DCAL waters, as i get over sixty concession permit lol salmon on the Roe, sea trout Dundrum. Mackerel Co Down coast. I luv wild trout fishing but fish stockies some times. have been flyfishing 37years. Season nearly over tight lines for the rest of it Glen.
Brilliant, can't beat a bit of foraged seafood if you can be sure of quality. Dowser treated me to an awesome Seafood Tagliatelle with a few years back. Was awesome, I'll not be forgetting that one in a hurry!
http://www.ni-wild.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1752.0
Hi Redleader,
You and Dowsers camp looked good and your foraged seafood tagliatelle
looked great.I love seafood and the last time I gathered wild oysters was in Galway bay.Theres not too many wild beds left in Ireland.
All the best.
some pics from outing, I hope,
https://imgur.com/a/zDO6s
Lol,having trouble posting pics dono if it's me,imgur or iPad.
Getting a bit frustrated now!