The Great Wallsendo
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Had a spare days holiday left to take before Christmas so I used it up yesterday
Starting off early to catch low water Gregg and I headed north to the Craster area and after a small hike set about the task at hand
The weather looked ominous when we first set out with heavy torrential rain, but by the time we started fishing it had gone but had been replaced by bitter wind...although it die off and the sun came out later
We had a veritable smorgasbord of baits - but notably had a lot of Lug, Yellows, Blacks and Rag to get through...
Found it hard from the off as I was losing rigs more or less every other cast and the newly lined reel wouldn't play nice until after a dozen casts or so. Gregg seemed to be faring better in this scale but the only bites we were getting by an hour or so in were the "hit and run" types or at best the nibbly nibbly from small fry type
Anyway as the tide started to flood we were steadily pushed back and finally I get a proper bite and it's clearly from something that's hooked itself...after managing to bully it out of the snags and dealing with crossed lines this little fella gets landed...
2lb Codling
It's always good to beat the duck on a new venue
And that was it for a while longer and steadily we get pushed back towards the high tide mark.
By this point I'm starving and as I've left my scran back in the car I head back over the fields to get them...by the time I get back Gregg declares he "had two on at once" (he's fishing with two rods all day) but one of them hung up on a snag - however he did get this little fella in...
1lb 7oz on the scales
So that's one a piece
We stayed all the way through the flood and a couple of hours back down but we only managed a couple of fat rockling after the initial sucess with the codlings - Gregg has the pictures of the Rockling of which one had some very striking markings (I'd dropped my phone in a rock pool by this point
)
Perhaps the fish were there but weren't in a feeding frenzy? like I said we were getting plenty of knocks and rattles but nothing was hooking itself
Anyway I'd class the day as a success - we went to a new spot and we caught fish
Deffo a spot rife for a re-visit
Starting off early to catch low water Gregg and I headed north to the Craster area and after a small hike set about the task at hand
The weather looked ominous when we first set out with heavy torrential rain, but by the time we started fishing it had gone but had been replaced by bitter wind...although it die off and the sun came out later
We had a veritable smorgasbord of baits - but notably had a lot of Lug, Yellows, Blacks and Rag to get through...
Found it hard from the off as I was losing rigs more or less every other cast and the newly lined reel wouldn't play nice until after a dozen casts or so. Gregg seemed to be faring better in this scale but the only bites we were getting by an hour or so in were the "hit and run" types or at best the nibbly nibbly from small fry type
Anyway as the tide started to flood we were steadily pushed back and finally I get a proper bite and it's clearly from something that's hooked itself...after managing to bully it out of the snags and dealing with crossed lines this little fella gets landed...
2lb Codling
It's always good to beat the duck on a new venue
And that was it for a while longer and steadily we get pushed back towards the high tide mark.
By this point I'm starving and as I've left my scran back in the car I head back over the fields to get them...by the time I get back Gregg declares he "had two on at once" (he's fishing with two rods all day) but one of them hung up on a snag - however he did get this little fella in...
1lb 7oz on the scales
So that's one a piece
We stayed all the way through the flood and a couple of hours back down but we only managed a couple of fat rockling after the initial sucess with the codlings - Gregg has the pictures of the Rockling of which one had some very striking markings (I'd dropped my phone in a rock pool by this point
)Perhaps the fish were there but weren't in a feeding frenzy? like I said we were getting plenty of knocks and rattles but nothing was hooking itself
Anyway I'd class the day as a success - we went to a new spot and we caught fish
Deffo a spot rife for a re-visit
Nice to see a smile on this site, erm! the cod not yours
( only kiddin m8
)
