Duration: 6 hrs (ish)
Tide:rising
Weather:calm with a light rain for 10 mins
Bait: lug mackerel razor sandeel
Rigs:various
Results:pollock, mackerel, pollock, conger, pollock, pouting and did i mention pollock
Report: a grand wee session, i kept this one a light session only using my spinning rod nearly all the time,
using a drilled bullet (1.5oz) and small hooks i was getting the odd pollock i close, martin cast a bait out to distance but wasnt having much luck to begin with, then he pulled out his spinning rod and floated a lug worm which produced a nice little pollock, by this stage i had actually lost count of the pollock i was bringing in.. i reverted to an old reliable and well tested method of catching pollock.. size 1 hook and a piece of mackerel.. ended up catching a nice fresh mackerel... kept at this for a while plucking pollock out every minute or two then after darkness fell i put on a size 6 and a very thin sliver of mack belly bait.. surely this may tempt a wrasse... not to be as my rod doubled over and made some very funny shapes indeed.. a fine pollock was produced, (pic below) darkness started in and martin was getting taps on his rod (he gave up on the pollock bashin) i cant remember which came first, the conger or a nice pouting, but they both came in to bottom baits. then i started to proceed with drilled bullet again and casting out and leaving it... on second cast i got a nice pouting (didnt even know it was there till i reeled in).
then put on lug tipped with squid. saw a nice 'BANG' to the rod.. another nice pouting
(pic below)..then all went quiet.. a bit too quiet... then all of a sudden strange noises came from the water.. couldnt figure what it was for a while until i realised it was the sound of dolphins surfacing and breathing. this was going on in front of us about 60 yrds out (maybe closer) for a good ten minutes.. didn't get to see any of them at any stage but could hear them jumping and swimming up and down, then they disappeared into the distance of the bay (probably chasing after mackerel and saw out headlights and came over to have a closer look).. after a while martin pulled into another fish.. another conger eel, which upon de-hooking tried to escape into the cracks and pools in the rock, but it hadn't the time to think of any cunning plans as i grabbed it and in one fair movement saw it flying seawards and landing with a splash, poor fish probably didnt know what was going on
then all went quiet aso we called it a night..
martin has pics of the conger
