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With a lot of hot weather about some of our members have been out and about trying for a few different species. Al Marsden had a good day on the rays with some nice specimens. Jānis Liseckis was more than happy with his bass session. Lee Mullan had a nice smoothy from the North Coast. James Wade had a lovely sized rockling. Drew McMinn crunched out the mini's and Dan O'Neil had a lovely mullet on his last cast which put up a fantastic account of itself.

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Some of our smaller catches over the past month. Locations: Waterfoot pier, Port Muck and Benone Beach. Plenty of small pollock taking lures and mackerel feathers. Three flat fish ( I think they are turbot but I’m unsure) caught on Benone beach using a two hook flapper. Catch and release for all.

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Please forgive the lingo

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Fish of the month for June ** Sponsored by Rooney Fishing Supplies**

Great to see a lot more activity and species coming in in everybody's reports and this month it goes to Paul Hill with this lovely cuckoo wrasse while he was participating in the wrasse hunt.

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Some nice fish and crustaceans being caught by federation members at the moment. Garry McCurry had a fine North Coast shore Tope of 21lb along with the start of the Garfish. Drew McMinn was catching away on the minis and pollack. Paddy O'boyle was building up his species list nicely and Dan O'Neill had a pier caught PB Plaice. Matt Ormesher was on the rays again with a mixture of other species including dragonets. And Jānis Liseckis had a mega battle with a lobster, Janis won in the end!!

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Keep an eye above you, especially on piers etc.

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Some nice fish starting to turn up for shore anglers from the federation. Good to see it heating up though a bit on the late side.

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Federation member Al Marsden writes a nice account of a session on board Portrush Skipper Paul Graham boat the Lady Karen.
Time for another fishing round up 😀
Mark BG took a run up the coast with me last wednesday for a 4 hour shore session to targets flatties. The fish were about in good numbers with flounder, dab and plaice coming in 2 and 3 at a time 😊
Nothing massive, but the rods were nodding away all afternoon until they gobbled up all of our ragworm. Great wee impromptue session 😁😁
Sunday saw myself, soupy Sean Skull Feeney and big tommy head out onboard the lady karen from portrush (skippered by Paul Graham ) for what turned out to be the best boat trip so far this year from the port.
Mackerel were still thin on the ground with only 1 getting caught the entire day but 1lb whiting were abundant. This ended up doing us a good turn as very quickly something kept stealing them off our hooks. So the light traces were put away and heavy rigs baited up with whiting fillets or whole whiting were sent back out to see what was about 😉
I was first to hook up with a double shot of 7lb spurdog coming up and then the fun began in ernest with others hooking up 😀
Tommy got the biggest fish of the day measuring in at 117cm. It was a brute of a spur that was as thick as my thigh and he was pulling some faces trying to hold it for a photo 😂😂😂
After a few hours of frantic spur action we decided we'd had enough and set off to target some pollock and other species. I think we ended up with tub gurnard, scad, ballan wrasse, pollock and coalies.
All in all a great days fishing 😎😎😊😄

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We had 19 anglers manage to catch with top three as follows:

1st Paul Beggs 46cm

2nd Colin Reilly 43cm

3rd Diarmaid Adams 42cm

Next leg is Pollack in July.

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