Settled Atlantic Pattern: Bass and Pollack Heating Up on Irish Coasts

This is Artificial Lure with your coastal Ireland fishing report. Around the Irish coast tonight we’re sitting under a fairly settled Atlantic pattern: light to moderate west–southwest winds, cooler clear spells, and only scattered showers. Met Éireann notes sea temps hovering in the low teens, with air temps dipping into single figures overnight in places. That cooler, stable weather has kept the water reasonably clear on most coasts, especially the southeast and parts of the north. According to standard tide tables for mid‑June, we’re on decent-sized mid-month tides, with early morning highs on the south and east coasts and afternoon highs wrapping round to the west. That gives you classic first-light and last-light pushes of water, really important for bass and pollack. Dawn is very early now and dusk late, so your best bite windows are that grey light on either side of the day. Bass reports from the south coast have picked up nicely over the last few days. Local anglers from Wexford through Waterford into Cork have been picking up schoolies with the odd better fish into the 60 cm bracket. Shallow surf beaches and rocky points are both producing when there’s a bit of chop on the water. Soft plastics on light jig heads, small metal slugs, and surface walkers have all been working when fished tight to the breaking water. Fresh peeler crab and lugworm are still top baits if you’re soaking a bait on the bars. Up on the west coast, from Clare up through Galway and Mayo, the rock marks are giving good mixed bags. Mackerel have been showing sporadically off deeper ledges and piers, with strings of fish at peak tides, and that in turn has brought in pollack and coalfish. Simple feathers tipped with a sliver of mackerel, or 20–40 g metals, are doing the job. For the bigger pollack, weighted soft shads in natural colours worked slow and deep along the kelp edges are hard to beat. Flattie fishing has ticked along quietly on cleaner sandy beaches of the east and southeast. Dab, flounder, and the odd turbot are turning up to two‑ and three‑hook flappers baited with rag, lug, and mackerel strip. Smaller hooks and long snoods are getting more bites in the calm, clear water. Two hotspots worth a look: • Cork Harbour & outer headlands: Plenty of schoolie bass, some decent pollack, and mackerel showing when the tide is running. Try small white or sandeel-pattern soft plastics, or fish fresh crab into the gullies after dark. • Clare rock marks around Loop Head: Productive for pollack, coalfish, and mackerel on the flooding tide. Metals and shads work well; keep an eye on swell and never turn your back on the sea. Night tides are increasingly worth your time now. Quiet beaches after dark with a bit of coloured water are prime bass territory. Keep your lures simple: dark silhouettes, slow retrieves, and keep them in the top few feet. If you’re bait fishing, fresh is king – crab, rag, and good lug will outfish frozen most nights. That’s the coastal rundown for Ireland from Artificial Lure. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss the next report. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai. Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn