Duration: 17:00 - 23:00
Tide: HT @ 20:26 5.26m
Weather: Dry to begin Raining later winds rising to Gale Force SSE
Bait: Mackerel, Squid & Sandeel
Rigs: Animal Gear, Simple Ledgers size 4's and Feathers
Results: Ballan Wrasse, Gold Sinny Wrasse, Tompot Blenny, Pollack & 95 Mackerel
Report: Was due to head out for Blue Shark on Sunday but the gales hitting tonight and staying around all day Sunday put paid to that. So in need of a fishing fix arranged to meet up with Nige. We set up animal gear for congers and started ledgering for minis in close. I was first in with a small pollack followed by Nige with a Gold Sinny Wrasse... then i'd a couple of Tompot Blennies another species of the list
and Nige had another Gold Sinny while i got a Ballan... Nige and myself picked up a few small pollack. Nige then had a rattle on the conger gear but lost the fish on the way up... I dropped a conger too... Nige then tried a sandeel out further and when he went to check his bait hit got hit my a mackerel on the retrieve. With us in need of some fresh bait we both clipped on feathers.... i've never seen such activity with mackerel jumping clear of the water all around us sprat and sandeel every where it was complete madness we caught 95 mackerel in under an hour the weight of the catch was 45lbs. So with bait sorted for the foreseeable future it was back to ledgering another few pollack later the rachet on my conger rod went picked it up and struck fish on Nige grabbed the drop net and we both looked down waiting to see the conger appear.... next it was "what in the name of Jaysus is that??" an otter hooked in the mouth and up out of the water 
dangling on the end of my line.... stood there in a state of shock wondering how am i going to unhook this thing.... he thankfully shook himself free and dropped back into the water.... thank God for that i said then to our amazment he came back out of the water and started climbing up the rocks to try and grab what was left of the mackerel head cheeky or what.... earlier red had a post up wondering what was nicking his fish and i said it's sounds like otters and that we had them in the Bay but they've never bother us before today... I lost another good conger after that felt like a double with the rain and wind getting heavier we called it a day.
they are beautiful creatures and lets face it better fishermen than all of us 
still i,d say you had fun with all them macs and will save a few bob in the tackle shop this year 
shame about your sharkin bet your skipper was drunk too 
ye are rubbing it in now!!when i saw the weather this morning was glad we did not go out 
. otters can be fearsome wee critters when stressed,,, it would have been some task to unhook the wee chap and retain all 8 fingers and 2 thumbs