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| Hard work with soft lures |
 Danny Parkins and his fishing buddy has just returned from a weeks shore fishing the southwest coast of ireland for Pollock with light lure rods and grubs and shads. Danny used a pair of Savage Gear Road Runner spinning rods loaded with 4000 size reels and 30lb braid, and the results were amazing.
-Between the two of us, we nailed over 500 Pollock - 300plus of which weighed 4 to 6lb - with a dozen Pollock over the 6lb mark. My biggest Pollock landed from the rocks weighed a whopping 8lb 7oz! We fished exposed cliffs and rock faces out in the wild Atlantic Ocean on the beara.
Numerous times, we landed a fish in every cast. And it went to the point where on some marks, we landed six or seven 5lb plus fish one after the other. Our arms ached with pain as these fish would crash dive 30 odd foot back down to the reefs. Even with the drags on full and hands on the spools, we could not stop most of the Pollock from running under the rod tip.
We also caught cuckoo wrasse, ballan wrasse, bass and mackerel - as well as a first for me and an extremely rare catch from the shore on lures - a decent John Dory!! All fish were caught on the Savage Gear grubs in four inch, 4-5inch, Cannibal Shads and Dying Minnows.
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