People:me
Duration:7.30 am-3.30pm
Tide:low around 6.30am,
Weather:sunny, warm, i shower
Bait:rag,mack
Rigs:float, 1 hook clipped down, feathers
Results:5 pollock
Report:Arrived with high hopes after having a good session here in june catching wrasse and pollock with shamoo0804. Set up the float rig but the water wasnt too deep in close so I changed to a 1 hook clipped down baited with rag and mack and cast out as far as i could.
This worked for me the last time when i got a large ballan wrasse, but alas this time I lost the rig :cry: . This is rough ground and you can expect tackle losses :oops: .Back to the float setup and at 8'30 approx i got the first pollock :lol: . I thought this would be the first of many but it was another 2 hours till I got the second :roll: . In between i took my eye off the ball when a nice yacht anchored nearby, and when i finally realised the float had disappeared it was too late ,and the wrasse ( I PRESUME :shock: ) had wedged himself tight :cry: , resulting in another tackle loss :cry: There was a lot of activity all day with Kayakers, swimmers, fishing boats , yachts, helicopters, water skiers etc, and i dont know if this affected the fishing. After 5 hours all i had to show was 2 pollock and although i was glad not to be blanking i was also a little bit disappointed that the wrasse hadnt turned up :cry: . I had to keep moving across and up as the tide rose and for a while i was cut off till the tide turned again. I kept putting off the last cast and when a fishing boat anchored about 200 yds offshore and they started to pull in the macks, i put on a set of feathers/muppets.
Its tricky trying to retrieve the feathers here but i noticed that i could judge the depth when my leader(yellow) was a few yards out of the water. Once i could see about 3 yds of yellow leader out of the water all the time i was ok, if you know what i mean :? :roll: .I was hit like a train by a nice pollock which put up a good fight. Another pollock just missed the feathers as i lifted them out of the water so i realised they were in close and kept casting and retrieving close to where i was. I had got 3 more pollock this way which made me glad i stayed that bit longer :lol: .
Now it was ok to go home, so i packed up and started the long climb back up . I was doing ok (human goat) until i looked up and saw about 30 people watching me. Before i put on the rucksack i'm already carrying an extra 3 stone( fat :cry: ), so its a long haul for me, so with all the grace and poise of a baby giraffe finding its feet for the first time :lol:, i skipped up the rocks. :shock: . When i reached the onlookers i had to have a look down at the swimmers below, (CATCH MY BREATH :roll: ), and saw all these old guys in the nude in the water, and out of it. Then i realised that my tackle losses werent that bad after all, if you know what i mean :wink:
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