Duration: 20.00-00.00
Tide: low water up, large tide
Weather: very windy, dry
Bait: rag, lug, maddies, mack, crab
Rigs: flappers pullys
Results: flounder, codling, whiting
Report:
Decided on this venue as we thought it would provide some shelter from the very strong southerly wind. I have fished here twice in daylight and caught nothing, but with 2 good channels surrounding a very large sand bank I had always thought the place should hold fish. When we arrived we found the gully we expected to fish into completely drained, a sign of the big tides I guess.
We set up to the left of the sand bank, fishing just 1 rod each to start, could see the odd fish jumping, and also saw a few decent sized bass cruising around 20/30 yards in front of us in no more than 2 foot of water. This gave us a bit of hope we might get a few fish.
2nd cast for me resulted in 2 flounder, the largest we thought would easily reach 35cm+ on the measure but it came it at only 31cm, still I was off the mark anyhow.
The tide was racing in and with water in the channel we wanted to fish, we moved the 100 yards necessary to our right, rebaited and cast out 2 rods each. Brian was at the bottom end of the channel, and was able to cast 1 rod out to the area we had just moved from, and lobbed the 2nd out into the channel in front of us.
All quite for a while until Brian was slowly twitching in the rod he cast well left, this resulted in a good tug(which Brian thought was a clump of weed racing past in the tide run), he was pleased as punch to find he had a flounder of 39cm that had taken a mack strip.
No more action for myself, but Brian was getting a few codling and whiting, Al and his mate arrived, Al getting a flounder on his 1st cast, then that was the last of the action. It seemed the more the tide filled, the quieter the fishing went. At this stage it really did look fishy though, with waves breaking over the sand bank, and the 2 channels creating many different flows of waves, but maybe the current was just too strong for the fish
With weed becoming a problem and bait almost gone we decided to call it a day.
All in all not a terrible session but not great, and nice to finally get a few fish here at the 3rd time of asking.
Got the impression that maybe this place would be best fished 2 hours eitherside of low water, maybe anybody with knowledge of this beach could give me a few pointerts, pm me if you dont want to disclose any help publicly
