Island hopping 11/12/09

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Island hopping 11/12/09

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People:Gara30 and stevecrow74

Duration:6 hrs

Tide:over low

Weather:calm and cold

Bait:squid, sandeel and herring

Rigs:various

Results:Gara30 : 3 whiting, 1 pouting and a bull huss
Stevecrow74 : 3 thornback ray, 2 dogs




Report:Got to mark, flat calm waters. Caught a whiting on the first cast. unfortunately lost a big one on the second.
But caught a nice sized pouting soon afterward. Steve soon started reelin some pretty nice fish starting with a ray with a dog soon after. I got a good hit on the line and i realised that i had a good sized fighter on the take, had to wait to find out what i'd reeled in cos it got caught in weeds at the water line. So Steve was sent down reluctently to retrieve what we at first thought was a dog but to our surprise turned out to be a bull huss !! (pic below) Not to be outdone Steve then brought in a nice ray and a dog. The tide was in slack overlow and the bites disappeared for an hour and a half or so til on the final cast of the session i pulled in another whiting. Oh and Steve pulled in another ray. All in all a pretty good haul.
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Re: Island hopping 11/12/09

#2 Post by stevecrow74 »

hehe.. you can guess who got the neoprene gloves in Aldi :lol: :lol: mind you i also bought 2 pairs.. :wink: actually very nice too...


well done on the huss gara, biggest fish to date... just wait till you get a double figure one :wink: would have loved to seen what fish you dropped was though.. was a good bend in the rod..
even though the second ray sure put up some scrap for the size of it.. fought the whole way in and even when releases was like a watery bat going down to hell as fast as possible...

nice to get out of the house and have a replacement chauffeur now that nige has gone. :lol:

i think not only some one got he fishing bug but it has now already become an obsession




just noticed.. this is the 25,000th topic :shock: :shock:
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Re: Island hopping 11/12/09

#3 Post by chrisfeeney30 »

well done lads some nice fish there! Nice huss gara, what size were the whiting? Ye are fishing out there so much recently ye may as well live out there haha well done
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#4 Post by saltydog »

Well done guys nice session and its great to see a huss off that mark 8)
Shore Species 2011 (31) Ballan Wrasse, Bass, Bullhuss, Coalfish, Cod, Conger, Corkwing Wrasse, Cuckoo Ray, Dab, Dogfish, Five Bearded Rockling, Flounder, Goldsinny Wrasse, Long Spined Sea Scorpion, Mackerel, Plaice, Pollack, Poor Cod, Pouting, Rock Goby, Shanny, Shore Rockling, Short Spined Sea Scorpion, Thornback Ray, Three Bearded Rockling, Tompot Blenny, Tope, Tub Gurnard, Turbot, Undulate Ray, Whiting

Shore Species 2010 (26) - Bass, Black Goby, Bull Huss, Coalfish, Cod, Dab, Dogfish, Five Bearded Rockling, Flounder, Grey Gurnard, Lesser Weaver, Mackerel, Mullet, Plaice, Pollack, Poor cod, Pouting, Rock Goby, Shore Rockling, Silver eel, Starry Smooth Hound, Thornback Ray, Tope, Tub Gurnard, Turbot, Whiting

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Re: Island hopping 11/12/09

#5 Post by doggie3131 »

some nice fish there lads,nice to see the ray still around!
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species 2011 (20) flounder,whiting,poor cod,5 beard rockling,lsd.coalie,thornie,three bearded rockling,shore rockling.seatrout.turbot,plaice,brill,pollock,ballen wrasse.huss,pout,cookoo wrasse,corking wrasse,dab.

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Re: Island hopping 11/12/09

#6 Post by hugo »

:) Nice going there lads, you're making me feel very lazy 8) BTW how did you present the herring? Always found it tricky to keep on the hook, even mummified.
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Re: Island hopping 11/12/09

#7 Post by stevecrow74 »

Herring was very fresh, so stayed on the hook no problem, will be going back to That fish mongers again :)
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