I have finally managed to sort my life out and get back on the fishing band wagon! My cousin and i decided to head to Hartland quay for a session as Friday night it was like a mill pond. When we arrived on Saturday afternoon we were greeted by a totally different sea (see below)
After a quick debate we decided to head back the way we came and seek some shelter at Bucks Mill. On arrival we were greeted by a totally different sea. This one was nice and calm and easily fishable. (below)
Baits for the day were Mackerel, squid, Sandeel and Lugworm. We arrived at low water setup and cast out only to find weed was posing a major problem. We decided to wait for a while and hope it finally cleared out which it did after about an hour and a half of the flood. Things were very quiet for the first few hours and we just had to sit back and enjoy the typical English summer consisting of continuious rain all day!
First in to the fish was Steven with a Freshwater eel of about a pound in weight followed by a steady stram of Dogfish. Things were looking poor for me as by now i had not even had a bite! With about an hour of the flood to go the fishing gods smiled on me as i had a good solid pull down on the rod and my line slowly started moving against the tide. I was praying for a smoothie but this wasnt no smoothound more like a sack of spuds being dragged in. When i finally beached the fish i was greeted with a potential P.B huss which eventually pulled the scales around to 6 1/2 lb. Not huge by any standard but still my personal best! The doggies kept coming for Steve but the huss was my only fish of the day.
Cant wait for the next trip!!!
We headed off out to try a new rock mark lastnight with the intention of fishing three down three up. All that was known about this mark is that the rocks run for about 100 yards and then onto clean sand. We arrived in good time, stomped around the headland for about 1/4-half a mile and was greeted by a gale force southerly wind being channeled down between the headlands. We setup one rod each with pulley rigs, baited with mackerel and cast into the darkness. Within five minutes the rachet on the reel started clicking on the reel and finally resulted in a doggie of around 2lb in weight. Mackerel again was blasted out and again within five minutes i had a slack liner bite and this time it was a pollack of about 1/2lb. things were looking good at this new venue! soon steven was in on the action too with a decent sized rockling that also fell to mackerel. With about an hour left of the ebb everything went quiet not even the crabs wanted to feed and for a further three hours baits were coming back untouched so we took this as our cue to pack up and head on home
Well the deadly duo ventured out yet again (my cousin, steven and I) this time to Lower Deck in Combe Martin to fish the flood. We arrived in good time to get setup before the water reached a fishable height. Both of us fished pulley pennel rigs with a variety of baits (live peeler, mussle, squid and mackerel) The fishing was not the most comfortable with torrential downpours and a strong gusting wind from the north west. Things started out very slowly with no bite happening for the first couple of hours. Steve took "first blood" with a three bearded rockling of about 10" long. This little "slug" fell to mackerel bait fished close in to the rocks with about an hour of the flood left to go. About twenty minutes later i had a good bite to live peeler crab fished at range over the rocks. after a good fight it resulted in a cracking bass of around 2 1/2- 3LB. after the bass everything died again so at high tide we decided to call it a day and head home.
