Within a few years of owning my first boat I started to develop itchy feet. I wanted to explore the fishing further afield than off the Welsh coast of the Bristol Channel and having already fished in Ireland on numerous occasions it was the mouthwatering prospect of fishing there from my own boat that held the greatest attraction.
One day I read an article written by Phill Williams. It profiled the small boat fishing in Tralee Bay on the north-east coast of the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, and it was here that I started to focus my attention. I managed to obtain Phill’s phone number and he could not have been more helpful, freely providing me with all of the information I needed: where to stay, the best places to launch and, most importantly of all, some of the most productive areas to fish.
Phill, who became a very good friend, had been accompanied by Kevin Linnane from the Irish Central Fisheries Board, and their trip had been based at the commercial fishing harbour of Fenit. Fishing almost exclusively within the shallow water within Tralee Bay they had caught skate, monkfish and tope, and it was these that would be the primary
