Duration: 3.30pm - 8.30pm
Tide: low to high
Weather: excellent to begin with then it got hairy
Bait: rag, lug, mack, sand eel and lures
Rigs: too many to remember
Results: ME- blank MINTY- blank JORDAN- 1 male corkwing wrasse, 1 short spined sea scorpion and a 32cm ballen wrasse
Report: we went to a secret rock mark that another angler put us onto after i blanked at the other 3 marks last week. it was a bit hard to find, but we made it at the end. it was a cracker of a day with the sun shining and a calm sea
. so things looked up for a change. i was on a bit of a mission as i had been blanking all week at the other marks out that way people had put me on to 
so we got set up with minty and jordan spinning with lures and i fished a float with rag in a wee gully that was 15ft deep at low tide. the mark was a cracker spot, but it's still early in the year to get too excited so we carried on regardless all the same. jordan and minty had about 20 casts each before both lures were lost to the kelp 
. but it's only to be expected when spinning at low tide over kelp beds 
. so i gave jordan the float set up and i began spinning with minty. 20mins or so later minty lost another spinner and set up a float rig. as he was rigging up i heard an almighty commotion from where jordan was at and he came bouncing over the rocks with a 32cm ballen wrasse in his hands . i thought " thank god " to myself, he's got a counter 
. once he calmed down it was photographed, marked on his card and returned to the sea none the worse. now minty and jordan were fishing the wee gully and i carried on spinning(or should i say loosing tackle). i did'nt care what happened from there on as jordan was beaming from ear to ear at getting a fish. and it was his first wrasse of the year to boot. but then that soon changed as a whoop and hollar signalled he got another fish. this time it was a male corkwing wrasse . just 2cms short of being a counter, but he did'nt care as it was another first for 2009 
. he then proceeded to get another fish, a wee short spined sea scorpion. i think at this stage he was rubbing it in at our lack of fish and showing the 2 adults how it's done i was a bit gutted that minty did'nt get a wrasse as he's never got one before, but that's fishing for ya. by 8.30pm there was a scary swell and the tempreature had fallen through the floor. so we admitted defeat and packed away. me and minty might have went home fishless, but i was just chuffed to bits that jordan had a good day 
great to see some Wrasse 
unlucky Al & Minty....
