Duration: 5pm - 9pm
Tide: High, then dropping
Weather: Calm, Clear, Flat.
Bait: Squid, Mackeral, Sandeel, Lugworm, Ragworm, and Peeler
Rigs: Loops, 1up1down, 3/0 P.Pulley
Results:
Plenty of Whiting, Poor Cod, Codling, Coalfish, Pollack, Mackeral, Dabs and Flounder
Report:
Had that Friday feeling, and with the weather being so good, decided we'd head up the coast, Found Waterfoot pier empty so we immediately set up, Before I ever had the gear in the water Dan had a small Coalfish plucked out. I got my Big bait knocked out first then set up a light rod with a 1up1down rag tipped with mackeral, cast, and before it could hit the deck I had a fish! Result! A totally unexpected mackeral which was a handy addition to the bait supply.
The fishing was consistant to say the least, with the first 3 or so hours being at least 1 fish per cast on the close in rods.
Launched a whole Peeler out on the Zziplex and pretty much forgot about it, that was until a barge came in and I got my line caught on it, gutted, but to save any fuss I bit the line off....
Danny got the unwashed squid out, and we soon discovered how awesome it was for bait, tough and durable and thicker than eating calamari, it produced a hell of a lot of whiting, Coalfish, and I also took a flounder on pure Squid strip too.. A while passed and I caught the line that I had to bitten off earlier in the evening and handlined it in, a Codling of around 3/4 of a pound had managed to take the Crab, and 2 3/0 hooks! luckily they practically fell out once I got the fish onto the deck, and released...
It tailed off towards the last hour of the session for our Dan, but I seemed to keep picking up fish regularly until we packed up... Great night...
