Duration: 1.5hrs at each location
Tide: Full
Weather: Wet, Rain, Cold, Windy with added Rain for more wetness
Bait: Clouser Minnow and another sandeel imitation
Rigs: 9ft cast > Super Sinker Leader > 8wt Intermediate Flyline
Results: six fairly small pollack
Catch and Release:: Yes
Report: It was raining heavily by the time I reached vico road to fish the white rock beach and continued to do so for the rest of the afternoon. It was roughly an hour before hightide with only a small swell running, making it fairly safe to wade just beyond the beach break and fish. It would appear that I am somewhat of a sandeel mecca as from the moment I entered that water I was literally waste deep in them. However, although there was plenty of tasty bait fish around nothing seemed to be feeding on them. I walked the beach twice, throwing out a few different sandeel imitations but nothing showed. After a wet and thoroughly enjoyable two hours I moved to the area of rough ground below sorrento to try for some pollack.
Pollack came immediately but where much smaller that the normal small size! See the picture of the monster below, the fly is at least half its body length (greedy fish). Only managed to land six fish but missed a good few takes. I tied this fly a few nights ago and it fished very well today including how it swam (see picture below). It is made from two materials that I hadn't used before; goose biots and para post, tied on a size four low water kanasan salmon fly. Finished fishing when my hands lost all sensation due to the cold
Nice afternoons fishing
Denis
