Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:35 pm
People: Myself and Mans Geerinck
Duration: 3 hours 2-5 pm
Tide: incoming, HW around 6 pm, big tide around 4 m
Weather: miserable, well not too bad, occasional slab of horizontal light rain, muggy, low cloud, light SW breeze, 6-10 C
Bait: ammo mack and squid (thrown away, too long in the freezer)
Rigs: big hook pulleys close and far (nothing on the sand), three hook flappers, some flounder-ed up if you know what I mean... small mackerel feathers on the spinning, short session with a big sea float...
Results: Poor. Had a seal to start with, departed and nothing started to happen until around 4 pm. Got a couple of runs on the mack heads close in on the conger rod but first successful strike was into a big fish, and the bugger ripped line off and wedged into the rocks. Braid main line (forgot to change the reel doh! :oops: ) did not stand the rocks. Finally landed a decent conger around 10 lbs on similar rig... small coalfish and pollack landed by mans on the float rig and finally a decent edible fish - pollack 3/4 kilo - on the last cast on his telescopic rod. He can thank his lucky stars it was a relatively small pollack - the bend it put on that rod was incredible. How it did not snap was...
Landed a shorthorn scuplin on a hook that was bigger than it on the final cast with the baited rigs. Pretty poor. No dogfish and no whiting! Very odd - caughts absolutely nothing at distance over the sand. Nothing.
Eels were very active throughout the tide, fish only started to bite from 2 hr short of HW and as darkness fell... probably not a great winter venue.
Still, as someone pointed out, it beats brussels sprouts! :lol:
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Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:29 pm
You put your report in the Results section there Kieran, tsk tsk.... :lol:
Sure every Venue has its good and bad days mate... 8)