mark
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just back from a wet and windy west coast. text book stuff. Never had as good a week, all the usual spot far exceeded expectations.
had a last blast this morning spinning from the rocks and caught mackeral! Whats gannin on, its nigh on november
the pollock fishing was insane, last 2 hours before high water, from the old lighthouse pier was ballistic pollock or coalie every cast, and although the little uns were there, the average sized fish was a lot bigger than usual, most of em over a pound, got a personal best from the their of just over five pounds, but the bairn bless, her did it again, just after my big un, she\'s telling me I think its snagged, I was busy with another fish so told her to hang on, its free now she says..., oh no it isn\'t, oh yes it is etc...the end result:
9 and a half pounds... kids, what can you do with em. she did well though on a little lite weight spinning rod Nearly cacked my self when I was un-hooking it for her, it spat out a coalie about 8\" long...that was still alive! Holl nursed it back to life in rock pool,
read before we went that half a sand eel wrapped in squid is good for rays, tried it from the pier in kilchoan...caught one cuckoo and 2 thornbacks, also had dabs and flounders from there as well.
found another cracking sport at the end of the peninsula whcih chucked up loads of little codling best nicely pan sized, had a couple of wrasse from their a well,
caught fish everywhere I went, everytime, so can\'t fault that, but the weather was mental - F8, 9 and the odd 10 most of the week. took a load of frozen peeler, but brought it back as the rock pools were lifting with them, which the kids kept me ready supplied with.
tried the fly rod from the rocks, that was a laugh, wind so strong as I brought the but up to cat the tip just stayed put bent in half - did get onto the rivers for a day though
lost count of the pollack & coalies during the week, well into the hundreds, but had dabs, flounder, cuckoo and thornback rays, codling wrasse, the dreaded doggies a rockling and mackeral
my stomach had mussels, pollack, codling crab, lobster langoustines sea trout and mackeral - not neccessarily in that order or at the same time
had a last blast this morning spinning from the rocks and caught mackeral! Whats gannin on, its nigh on november
the pollock fishing was insane, last 2 hours before high water, from the old lighthouse pier was ballistic pollock or coalie every cast, and although the little uns were there, the average sized fish was a lot bigger than usual, most of em over a pound, got a personal best from the their of just over five pounds, but the bairn bless, her did it again, just after my big un, she\'s telling me I think its snagged, I was busy with another fish so told her to hang on, its free now she says..., oh no it isn\'t, oh yes it is etc...the end result:
9 and a half pounds... kids, what can you do with em. she did well though on a little lite weight spinning rod Nearly cacked my self when I was un-hooking it for her, it spat out a coalie about 8\" long...that was still alive! Holl nursed it back to life in rock pool,
read before we went that half a sand eel wrapped in squid is good for rays, tried it from the pier in kilchoan...caught one cuckoo and 2 thornbacks, also had dabs and flounders from there as well.
found another cracking sport at the end of the peninsula whcih chucked up loads of little codling best nicely pan sized, had a couple of wrasse from their a well,
caught fish everywhere I went, everytime, so can\'t fault that, but the weather was mental - F8, 9 and the odd 10 most of the week. took a load of frozen peeler, but brought it back as the rock pools were lifting with them, which the kids kept me ready supplied with.
tried the fly rod from the rocks, that was a laugh, wind so strong as I brought the but up to cat the tip just stayed put bent in half - did get onto the rivers for a day though
lost count of the pollack & coalies during the week, well into the hundreds, but had dabs, flounder, cuckoo and thornback rays, codling wrasse, the dreaded doggies a rockling and mackeral
my stomach had mussels, pollack, codling crab, lobster langoustines sea trout and mackeral - not neccessarily in that order or at the same time
