Duration:5 hours
Tide:massive, then dropping
Weather:calm, mild and dry
Bait:mackeral and squid
Rigs:portsmoth, pennel pully and 3 hook flappers
Results:22 whiting, 12 coalies, 1 x flounder, 5 bearded rockling and a dogfish
Report:Couldnt resist getting out for a few hours today, got down to the rocks, tide was very high. It was as high as it usually gets so i set up at the top of the rocks as far out as i could, how wrong was i, big sweels started to come in and knocked my tripod over, and nearly some other gear with it! retreated back further, same happened so i went back even further! At this point there was about 7 ft of water one side and about 12ft on the other, found a nice safe part and started fishing
Wanted to try get a few codling out at distance and said i would put a flapper in close on my other rod. 1st two casts on both rods had no fish, then i got a nice triple shot of whiting and flounder to kick start the fishing fish were coming in every cast, doubles mostly. fish were small in close but got coalies to 28 cms and whiting to 27 cms at distance on squid/mack wraps. Then i got a nice bige on my rod at distance which turned out to be a little doggie, smallest one iv caught to date, about 35 cms long Cool little one! all was normal till i got a nice bite on my bze then another.. then another then bang a massive one! Struck into the fish, doubled over the rod and started to taake line, not knowing what it was i let it have some and after about 5 minutes of action i saw a conger of about 7 lbs along with a coalies on the top and bottom hook! I carefully started to bring it to the rocks but once i lifted it, it let go, put my head down, looked up and there was half a whiting left on the hook! I was fishing over clen ground but it must of been out from the nearby rocks feeding on the sholes of whiting! Took out a pennel pully put casted it out to the same area but no luck, took a few more fishless casts like this. Then i got a nice little 5 bearded rockling in close, new species for the year . After that it was just more coalies and whiting for the last few casts. Overall it was an action filled session, i was kept busy for the session. Packed up at 8 pm, got a double sot of coalies on my last cast, i could have stayed there all night if i had more bait and food 37 fish in total, happy days! i Didnt get a chance to take many pictures, will post a few later..
