People: Just me
Duration: 14.30 - 20.45
Tide: HW at 16.15
Weather: Over cast, spells of sunshine, calm sea
Bait: rag, mack, sandeel
Rigs: Pulley, 1 hook, 2 hook ledgers, float
Results: 6 Wrasse ( Corkwing, Ballan), 14 Dog's
Report: Arrived at the mark to find nobody else around, and was quickly set up and fishing with a 2/0 pulley baited with sandeel out at around 120 yards, and a simple 1 hook ledger rig with the hook around 12" of the bottom fished down by my feet, baited with rag.
Didnt have long to wait for bites on both rods, it was a tell tale doggie bite on the distance rod, so left that will I attended to the rod close in, reeling in resulted in a very small female corkwing wrasse.
Left that rod down while I reeled in the distance rod, sure enough a doggie.
2 fish in my first 10 minutes.
I re-baited and put both rods back out.
Straight into bites again on the rod close in, but not hooking into a fish, this continued for around an hour, very small wrasse picking at the bait I presumed.
I was catching dogs with every cast on the distance rod, so had decided to change tactics and try for some flats.
I set up a 2 hook rig, baited with rag and mack, and put it out around 75 yards.
It was only out for around 15 minutes before I got a double of dog's.
All the while I was getting bites on the small rod, but missing them, only catching the odd wrasse - frustrating as hell
I had become bored with catching the dogs, so set up a conger trace/bait and dropped it in down the side of the rock face - more in hope than anticipation I might add :roll:
A couple more wrasse on the other rod, and plenty more missed bites, at least kept me busy, until..........the conger rod was tapping away.....no it couldnt be my first conger surely......struck, reeled in, a bit of weight........a doggie :shock: Damn you doggies, dont they just get everywhere.
Biggest wrasse of the day was only around the 25cm mark :oops:
The highlight of the session was to see a dogfish swimming around by the kelp/rock below where I was fishing, by now I had packed up the big rod and had just left the wrasse set up down. I scrambled for my camera, as I though it would make a great shot. It was strange to see him (or her) swimming so high in the water, in and out of the kelp, and though it was only a matter of time before he hunted down my bait (which was never more than 10 feet away from where the doggie was swimming), sure enough he found the bait, the tip started going, and he was to be the last fish of the day.
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