mini bashing, bait diggign and falling over, cough cough

[eric]

People:myself and brock-ay

Duration:the aftenenoon

Tide:full out at five o'clog

Weather:not too bad

Bait:limpet forks and a push net

Rigs:simple running line and a small hook

Results:gunnels, rock gobies, shannies, long spined sea scorpians, corkwing wrasse, ballan wrasse,flounder peeling crab and lug




Report:well was a strange session i must admit, went out to collect some bait and ended up fishing and pushing a net in the surf? first of all we dug a few lug in preparation for a bass session tomorrow. no bother we had forty nice large yellow tails in half an hour, so we then went off gathred a dozen peelers. we noticed quite a few small fish in the rock pools so after a quick run up to denis's jeep we got a few traces with tiny hooks, baited them with small bit of limpets and attacheda split shot to get the bait to sink. it wasnt long before had our first shanny, denis then had a littlle scorpian. i got a few shannies, and after shuffling around to various rock pools we added gunnel, corkwing wrasse and ballan wrasse to our list. i had a shot of pushing a net through the surf to see if i could get any shrimp and sandeels for bait, also just out of curiosity to see what would come up. to my amazment i addded a pretty little flounder to our list, as well as loads of shrimps. of course this is when and idilic session decends into a farcicle state of affairs. it all began with myself, wading deep in a large rock pool with the bucket and fork in hand. it had to have been me to fall over, land face first in the water and loose all the lug, as they dove deep into the murky depths. while the waders where filling with water i attempted what must have been the worst breast stroke in history, still i found the fork and now empty bucket and proceeded to wade to dry land. i should also mention denis was entering a state of comedic shock at this point. with phone destroyed we decided to call it a day and head back to the jeep. but fun was still to be had, denis being a lazy git decided to climb a 8 foot wall clearing to another 4 foot drop clearing to rocks covered in weed, purely because he didnt want to walk 10 minute around to the steps. in true brock fasion he slipped, fell and cracked his head of the rocks below, once i had established he was semi conscious, i forgot about my own misfortune and started laughing like i never laughed before. with a bit of blood and a bump of his head we managed to get the jeep and head for home. he has a few pics of the nice fish, so put em up dumbo!

[dbrock]

you forgot the pipe fish eric, although i did just pick that up in a rock pool it doesnt really count, great day out appart from the obvious ended up with a few paper stiches and a bump lucky i got a big head

[roger de dodger]

big fat ugly head i,d say well done on the catch and release on the lug eric
you de man, have the c&r brigade got you feeling that guilty now i have to go diggin in the morning very early

[The Austrian]

...well done on the catch and release on the lug eric you de man, have the c&r brigade got you feeling that guilty

[wayne riley]

very good report lads, had me wetting myself

[croppyboy]

im glad i wasnt there as i was going to go out with the kids,knowing my luck i would have fallen from the wall and drowned . still it would have been hilarious to see the evil one swimming in waders.

[SKIP]

COMICAL

[dfella25]

Maybe this fishing lark is more dangerous then I thought

[Al and Jordan]

excellent report eric, if you had some of that on camcorder you would be a rich man, those clip shows on tv would have paid top dollar for your fishing misadventures great read mate

[MC]

hows the head? did you damage the rock much

sorry about the phone eric, but every cloud has a sliver linning

[Al]

Hilarious the thoughts of you trying to breaststroke through the rockpool..brilliant

Hope the heads alright Denis that sounded sore