Duration: 5pm to 10pm
Tide: HW 5.30pm
Weather: 2mph easterly, dry but bitterly cold after sundown
Bait: rag, lug, razor, sand eel, mack and squid
Rigs: flappers and pats
Results: ME: COALIES 15+, 5 bearded rockling 1, codling 1, pollack 1 and a herring. DAN: over 20 coalies, dab 1, plaice 1, pollack 3, 5 bearded rockling 2, codling 4
Report
after a disaster of a session on sunday with me, jordan and dawsey fishing 9 rods over 12 hours without a single bite hopes were low for seeing a fish at waterfoot
. but there was a mountain of bait left over and dan was up for a session and i fancied a bit of flattie bashing on the beach. we arrived just before high tide to see the beach 2 foot deep with kelp just below the high tide line 
. a re-think was in order as i did'nt want to spend the whole session pulling clumps of weed outta our rigs, and besides it was forecast to drop to 3 below freezing as we lost the sun 
and frostbite to the fingers would have been the only thing we would have been catching 
.thankfully the harbour was deserted, which to be honest surprised the heck outta us as it had been a great sunny day with a good fishing forecast for the evening. so we high tailed it over in quick time to steak a claim to our usual spot
. within the first 5 mins dan had caught 2 coalies and the coalie onslaught began in ernest . nothing of any great size but there was a whole shoal of them hanging just off the end of the harbour hammering any bait put in front of them 
. what a difference a day makes . i would have broke someone's arm for just one of those wee guys yesterday 
. after my first cast resulted in a crack off, i quickly changed spools over and went back to my trusty braid and was out fishing. dan was already into double figures of coalies before i had my second rod into the water 
. but i was'nt too long in catching up. amongst the coalies dan was getting a few 5 beardy's and codling and a few pollack turned up to join in on the, all you can eat bait buffet we were chucking out to them . dan decided to change rigs over to have a crack at the flatties as we had a mountain of worms to use up and quickly landed a wee plaice and a dab. this was brilliant. like i said nothing of any great size but the rod tips were bouncing away the whole session. dan even managed to get 5 coalies on the same worm before the last coalie snaffled him off the hook . the mountain of bait was getting munched by the coalies at a fairly rapid rate and i got a bite and reeled in what we thought at first glance was a wee joey mack, as it was having seizures and flipping and flapping about like a 1980's breakdancer having a fit. but when we got it up we saw it was a herring and a big one at that . i was chuffed to bits as i've never caught one before and i could add him to my ever growing 2010 species list 
. it's always great to get a new species as it's always gonna be a PB too . a great way to round off a great session and put yesterdays blank behind me if i've left anything out i'm sure dan will add it to the report
Go on the Dan 
