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Headed out with my little brother this morning down to shields pier, got there about 6:30. Wind had started to pick up but bright blue skys and the sun shining. Got along the end to find about a dozen lads already on... usual pile of maccy lying around in the sun
Set up by the blocks fishing over the top of the ledge on the left hand side and quite happy with the spot. Set up my brother with a set of daylights to keep him occupied, few minutes later... "I think its snagged..." wrong.... maccy. I set up with a teaser sabiki rig but had nothing for about an hour wity my brother landing fish after fish
My brother had a sit down so I had a chuck with his rod for a change and bang, maccy on the drop.... at over 100yds.... after a long wind back in my first maccy of the year.
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A lad came along and sat down to my right, float fishing a live eel at about 10ft depth into the small hole between the ledge and start of the blocks.... float disappears and ends up hauling in a lovely Pollock... around the 3.5-4lb mark. I had to throw down some large kitchen scissors to give you a sense of the size but I don't think the pic does it justice.
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Nice to see that he made an effort to return the fish, taking it down the steps on the harbour side and releasing it but it was fairly deep hooked (hook length cut off) and ended up going belly up. Some scrounger came along with a set of feathers and hooked it out and kept it!
Set the story really.... watching millions of tiny sandeel getting battered by launce and maccy the length of the pier.... I ended up with a large hit on the spinner with a cast across the back of the blocks.... im thinking big Pollock... ended up with a 1.5-2lb coalie which had my little lure rod bend double lol
More maccy were to follow and then my brother rod gets bend over.. im thinking he has a full house on his daylights. He gets it to just by the ledge in front of us and it snags up.... im looking down but cant see any flashes from mackerel... wtf?
He is yanking away so I take the rod off him, let a bit of line out thinking, if a fish is still hooked it might just pull it clear, give it a last pull and there it is....... codling! The pic below doesn't do it justice and comfortably my brother biggest ever fish... around 2.5lb mark, he is over the moon and im trying to claim it as my fish as he would have lost it without my help ! Oh alright then.... he can have it
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Lovely morning to be out despite the knackers all along the end of the pier....
Headed out with my little brother this morning down to shields pier, got there about 6:30. Wind had started to pick up but bright blue skys and the sun shining. Got along the end to find about a dozen lads already on... usual pile of maccy lying around in the sun
Set up by the blocks fishing over the top of the ledge on the left hand side and quite happy with the spot. Set up my brother with a set of daylights to keep him occupied, few minutes later... "I think its snagged..." wrong.... maccy. I set up with a teaser sabiki rig but had nothing for about an hour wity my brother landing fish after fish
My brother had a sit down so I had a chuck with his rod for a change and bang, maccy on the drop.... at over 100yds.... after a long wind back in my first maccy of the year.
A lad came along and sat down to my right, float fishing a live eel at about 10ft depth into the small hole between the ledge and start of the blocks.... float disappears and ends up hauling in a lovely Pollock... around the 3.5-4lb mark. I had to throw down some large kitchen scissors to give you a sense of the size but I don't think the pic does it justice.
Nice to see that he made an effort to return the fish, taking it down the steps on the harbour side and releasing it but it was fairly deep hooked (hook length cut off) and ended up going belly up. Some scrounger came along with a set of feathers and hooked it out and kept it!
Set the story really.... watching millions of tiny sandeel getting battered by launce and maccy the length of the pier.... I ended up with a large hit on the spinner with a cast across the back of the blocks.... im thinking big Pollock... ended up with a 1.5-2lb coalie which had my little lure rod bend double lol
More maccy were to follow and then my brother rod gets bend over.. im thinking he has a full house on his daylights. He gets it to just by the ledge in front of us and it snags up.... im looking down but cant see any flashes from mackerel... wtf?
He is yanking away so I take the rod off him, let a bit of line out thinking, if a fish is still hooked it might just pull it clear, give it a last pull and there it is....... codling! The pic below doesn't do it justice and comfortably my brother biggest ever fish... around 2.5lb mark, he is over the moon and im trying to claim it as my fish as he would have lost it without my help ! Oh alright then.... he can have it Lovely morning to be out despite the knackers all along the end of the pier....
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