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BLUEMOUTH

UK & IRELAND SPECIALIST SPECIES HUNTING

I can clearly remember the first time I saw a bluemouth. We were drifting for blue shark about five miles to the north west of Sybil Head, off the mouth of Smerwick Harbour, County Kerry. An avid species hunter always looking to catch something new or unusual, I had heard bluemouth were occasionally caught over the ground we were fishing.

When I mentioned this my

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