Tigger II, Roberts Cove, 10/09/2008
Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:20 pm
People:me and petekd
Duration: 14:00 - 18:00
Tide: HW 21:50
Weather: NE breeze, sunny
Bait: stinky rag and mackerel
Rigs: 3 hook flowing traces, wrasse rigs
Results: mackerel, poor cod, ballan wrasse, grey gurnards, ling, haddock, dogfish, pollack
Report: trying to take advantage of the light winds and sunshine. Wasn't sure if we'd make it off the beach as it was pretty shallow, but we did after I waded out filling my wellies.
Sea still kind of lumpy/choppy, not sure what is driving it as wind and tide were relatively together when we headed out, but thanks to wind direction having changed since last week I didn't get a soaking
Targets for the day were a Ballan for me and some red gurnard, with the coords for the gurnard mark back with us.
Hit the Daunt Rock for a ballan with some old dead rag, got one on my second drop, so job done, we headed out, picked up some macks on the way and fished around our target mark.
This time last year it was fishing very well (I could catch everything but a red gurnard on the two occasions I was there), but this year nothing much. Good few doggies, and grey gurnard and a myriad of small poor cod, but not much else, certainly no sign of a red and very few ling and what little we were seeing were very small. No idea if it was just the easterly component of the wind, or the general weather over the summer, but not a patch on last year by all accounts. Hit a small patch of haddock as a bonus though while we were drifting around.
Motored out to our new mark from last Saturday to find the fishing quite poor there too, especially after the good day we had the other day, so maybe the wind was playing its part....
Headed back in for a nice easy retrieve onto the beach.
Big thanks to the kind Dubliner who followed us for about 3 or 4 miles with my engine cowl, which had fallen off, who waited until we were off the dangerous bends before stopping us to give it back. Hope we didn't take him too far out of his way.
Duration: 14:00 - 18:00
Tide: HW 21:50
Weather: NE breeze, sunny
Bait: stinky rag and mackerel
Rigs: 3 hook flowing traces, wrasse rigs
Results: mackerel, poor cod, ballan wrasse, grey gurnards, ling, haddock, dogfish, pollack
Report: trying to take advantage of the light winds and sunshine. Wasn't sure if we'd make it off the beach as it was pretty shallow, but we did after I waded out filling my wellies.
Sea still kind of lumpy/choppy, not sure what is driving it as wind and tide were relatively together when we headed out, but thanks to wind direction having changed since last week I didn't get a soaking
Targets for the day were a Ballan for me and some red gurnard, with the coords for the gurnard mark back with us.
Hit the Daunt Rock for a ballan with some old dead rag, got one on my second drop, so job done, we headed out, picked up some macks on the way and fished around our target mark.
This time last year it was fishing very well (I could catch everything but a red gurnard on the two occasions I was there), but this year nothing much. Good few doggies, and grey gurnard and a myriad of small poor cod, but not much else, certainly no sign of a red and very few ling and what little we were seeing were very small. No idea if it was just the easterly component of the wind, or the general weather over the summer, but not a patch on last year by all accounts. Hit a small patch of haddock as a bonus though while we were drifting around.
Motored out to our new mark from last Saturday to find the fishing quite poor there too, especially after the good day we had the other day, so maybe the wind was playing its part....
Headed back in for a nice easy retrieve onto the beach.
Big thanks to the kind Dubliner who followed us for about 3 or 4 miles with my engine cowl, which had fallen off, who waited until we were off the dangerous bends before stopping us to give it back. Hope we didn't take him too far out of his way.
Re: Tigger II, Roberts Cove, 10/09/2008
Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:12 am
Sounds like a tough one Lee. Maybe that Easterly hass messed it up a little. That patch of ground fished really well for us last year..... Maybe the spring tides on the way will help liven the place up a little.
Kev
Kev
Re: Tigger II, Roberts Cove, 10/09/2008
Mon Sep 14, 2009 2:59 pm
Cheers Kev, yes not the best day out. Looks like these red gurnards on going to be my bogey fish.
Hopefully just the wind....I won't write it off yet, but Pete reckons it hasn't fished well this year at all. Have to take my fishing where I can get it this year, so I won't complain still better than being stuck at work!
Hopefully just the wind....I won't write it off yet, but Pete reckons it hasn't fished well this year at all. Have to take my fishing where I can get it this year, so I won't complain still better than being stuck at work!