Duration:4:30(ish) - 10:35(ish)
Tide:falling and beginning of rise
Weather:SW winds with Heavy mist
Bait:sandeel squid mackerel
Rigs:floats, 1 up one down, one hook clip up
Results: 6 dogfish, 5 mackerel, 4 pollock, 1 dab
Report:eventually made it to the mark after a small bit of what seemed to be mountaineering, bog trekking and what was like running the gauntlet..
finally got set up on a rock that is only accessible during falling tide, and both cast out with baits for the bottom, not too much of a flow (neap tides are handy for this) so baits stayed where they were cast, and then set up spinning rods with floats and 9' drop to hook with a drilled bullet a foot from the hook, wrasse pollock and mackerel were the target here..
i started off with a great start catching 2 pollock on the float, and during a bait change to the main rod i noticed something was coming in with it.. woohoo a good sized flattie, what i thought could be a place soon turned out to be a dab as it got closer tot he shore.. biggest one i have ever seen.. a couple of photo's and a quick measure (36cm) i was straight on the phone to see what the specimen size for a dab is.. (apparently it's 1lbs 8oz, thanks jd
).. the scales we had with us weren't the greatest, so it was a quick knock on the head and i noticed my spinning rod was going mental... woohoo.. another species... mackerel are about..karma was in my favour this session as i managed to pluck a doggie from the depths, well salty, you had your fame of catching wile i blanked, now it was my turn to show you how its done
salty changed tactics and gave up on the float and went with feathers (macky bashin)..
after a few chucks and nothing much happening, i pulled out another mackerel
finally though he did manage to get a string of mack.. blank saved.. i think at this time i pulled out another pollock and shortly after another doggie, then salty caught a proper fish, a doggie arrived to the shore.. by this time the tide was slowly starting to turn, and salty picked out another doggie.. time went on and it was getting dark and my float disappeared, which turned out to be a nice pollock of about 2lbs.. darkness prevailed and time to put away the small rods and concentrate on the bigger ones (the zzippy's) after a quick phonecall from nige i noticed my line had gone slack.. another doggie just made it to shore, but it had other ideas as it somehow managed to bite through 25lbs snood and make a quick escape from under my feet back into the water.. time to go and salty felt a bit of weight on his rod.. yup another doggie...now for the hard part.. getting back to the jeep in the dark through bogs and firstly getting back off the rocks.. even Sir Edmund Hillary would have been proud of our attempts to climb off the rocks.. now its not as if they are high or anything, just very wet and slippery and quite a few slips were made
thankfully no rods broken (who cares about bones when you are carrying 2 zziplex) finally made the climb ,after what must have been 15 minutes(only takes 5 in dry conditions) and back through the marsh lands for the bog walk completely exhausted we made it back(just about)good session, pity there was no ray but thats the way it goes, and the dab weighed in at 1lbs (454gramms) exact on the scales at home.. just shy of specimen, so onto a try and dinner it was.. i'll be having that again
absolutely gorgeous pics to follow
(over to you salty)
But persistance paid of with a few mack and doggs shame about the ray a little bit calmer and i'm sure we would've connected, well it was nice to get a early session in during the week fine tune everthing for the weekend trip!!
Connor just as well you caught fish or you would have to listen to steve the full way home
nice fishing steve/saltydog, nice looking dab too.
