by Killary » Mon Mar 21, 2016 11:50 pm
Sunday seemed fine so I decided to have a go out past little killary. It was one of those days when I drove and then wandered over a few fences until I found a spot. HT was at about 4pm, a smallish one and the weather good. So I set out with a nice selection of bait from the freezer. Squid, mackerel and sandeels... I've been tying up a few new rigs to see if I could tempt a flounder or two. So I was keen to find a nice beach. I've fished Lettergesh a few times so decided to go somewhere new. Having settled on a nice spot, that looked very fishy, I set up and fished 2 rods with two hook rigs with longer traces to the hooks. Hook size was down to 2 and a 4, fishing nice small baits on both droppers. Its amazing how when a place seems perfect, with no other anglers in sight and conditions couldn't get any better, that the fish just vanish.... I sat it out for more than a few hours with not a flipping bite.... no doggies, nothing...... Couldn't believe it... not even a nibble from a crab... Have the Oceans been totally emptied of fish I ask myself?.... So today, I headed back out but decided to fish little killary itself. Its never let me down, with a load of dogfish, pin whiting and a solitary mackerel....it did just enough.... But I do wonder. There seems to be an increasing absence of quality fishing around our coast. Fish stocks being slowly reduced to nothing. Its sad.... maybe in a few years we'll be fishing for a single dogfish.... Commercial fishing is not our friend, and any introduction of chemicals into the water can only do harm..... Its a fact, the so called expects really don't have a clue. I find it hard to trust these fishery boys after seeing species after species suffering the same fate. Still, maybe next weekend...... isn't that what we do.....
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