Fishing on the Dingle Peninsula Part 2

 So on from the Loch gates and we enter into Tralee Bay. I heard a story one time of a punt boat just off Annagh point, as it was anchored, on a clear sunny day you couldn't see the mud flats through the clear water with the amount of ray! Tralee Bay is world renowned for its fishing. Its a haven for returning Sting Ray and Monk-fish. Its the sea anglers mecca for shore fishing and every year hundreds of anglers return to fish for monster stingers. There is plenty of marks to fish from with the most popular ones being Gayners and Derrymore Point. Most people do not know this but you will here it here first, the majority of specimens are not caught in Derrymore Point. The anglers say they have caught them at the point but its not true. Now I have no doubt that plenty of specimens are caught at the point but the biggest ones are caught inside Tralee Bay. Marks like Annagh and Bunawonder. These are the marks where the huge records have been caught. 

Less Known Mark in Tralee Bay, Summer 2021

I remember about 7 years ago, I was in Bunawonder luring for Bass. As I was wading through the water, I stepped on a huge stinger. When the stinger decided to move, I got a desperate fright when all of a sudden about three more monsters moved with him. They were like UFO's underwater. For a long time I have been trying to figure out why is it that Tralee Bay attracts such a huge amount of species! Between Monkfish, Stingers, Undulates and Thornbacks we are spoiled for choice here. Personally it comes down to two things. Sex and Food. As I have had tyres set in the bay since a teenager, I know there is an abundance of food sources! Common crab and rag-worm can be found in the bay in huge amounts. Also its a bay that has the perfect water type which doesn't become too fresh rather than saline because there isn't a huge freshwater source. Also the terrain is perfect to procreate, with vasts amounts of mud flats and mussel beds.

Looking down on Tralee Bay, Summer 2021