Lobster in Mulroy Bay ...

It is amazing what lives in the waters around this island! Twelve year old Darragh Wilson was fishing with his dad and brother on their boat, the Miss Daisy for thornback rays off Kerrykeel, Mulroy Bay when he hooked an impressive fish. He was using a long flowing trace baited with mackerel for thornbacks, which we are hoping to tag as part of the Marine Sportfish Tagging Programme run by Inland Fisheries Ireland. He is involved in this programme as a ‘citizen scientist’ along with his dad Chris and brother Ronan. He thought he had finally hooked a fine thornback on his light spinning gear, as they have proved elusive of late, and the fish fought hard before coming to the surface…. which was when he realised it was not a thornback at all! Something even rarer and more impressive had come up from the depths of Mulroy Bay - a huge lobster!