Howdy, I am new to the forum, a N00B.
Firstly, a nephew left me his fishing pole when he visited my partner Jennie and I in 2014. I do not fish, outside of working fishing boats in Alaska in the Summer of 1977. (Though head chef at Sea of Cortez on Pier 39, San Francisco, 1980, so I know how to cook fish and seafood, catching is a different story)
But having lived on a Carer's Allowance (the love of my life, a Dub, has dementia, Korsakoff's), to save money, perhaps it would be worth my while to learn how to fish from a pole as well as lobster pot (I take it that some commercial lobster people may not like us amateurs, but I love lobster, just cannot afford it).
I live 60 meters from Ballytrent Beach/Strand. So I have this pole. I am going to build a crude fishing pole/rod tripod out of wood (I cannot afford a fancy rig). Any ideas? I have wood, nails, even a hammer. I see the lugworm "piles" on the beach, and a friend (as we walk our dogs on the beach) said to use a gardening fork, not a gardening shovel, to dig them up.
I have a friend in Dublin, Shane, he wins all sorts of awards and stuff. I will also ask his advice. I believe that down here the catch I mainly want is sea bass. but any edible fish would do, I need to save money, and we love seafood.
Now, secondly, I have recovered two lobster pots washed up (carried/dragged one for 3km from Rosslare Harbour to home, heck, they are heavy). The other a round one I found not far from the house (of course on the beach, not in the farmer's fields). Both are in good shape, and I found a buoy washed up.
Now, my kayak will not take them out so I will put them on the rocky "shoals" up the beach at low tide. I do not want to impede on anybody's territory (there are others in Ballytrent Bay that put pots way off shore). I want to play the game correctly using the right rules. I have been onto Ian at BIM.
Any tips? Bait? Dead fish heads? I even heard an open tin of cat food to put in the pot?
Nice to be on this forum. I have always chatted with the guys fishing on the beach (one gave me a sea bass once, I ran home and gave him wild blackberries that I washed and froze).
Cheers
Patrick