mark
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just got back from another fun packed week in ardnamurchan and snapped another greys rod, prodigy carp rod, 3rd time its folded up. fishing for pollock, 4lb ish fish, got the hard bit done, got it out the weeds, last 30 foot or so to wind in before it ould be at my feet on the rocks, and ping, tip section snaps in 2 places this time. its the 3rd time this rod has buckled with just a wee bit of pressure on it, can't believe that people could even consider 20 or 30lb carp on one one of these. Ho hum, had the foresight to pack me trusty old daiwa rods this time though! the bairn was pulling 2 and 3 lber's in all the time on a 6 foot 5quid ron thomson telecopic job with no bother at all.
makes you wonder. Don't think I'll even bother taking it back this time, don't see the point. (anyone want to buy any greys butt sections?)
absolutely millions of fish up there this time, the pier at kiclhoan was nuts, the local shellfish co-operative had just landed a weeks catch on the pier, and that included, hundreds and hundreds of boxes of velvets, which as they sorted them resulted in a pile of several tousand dead uns, which were just hoyed over the pier side, cracking ground bait for next tide!
managed to pull in heaps of pollock and coalies best 5 to 6lb ish, but a fish every cast almost, every single day, at every state of the tide. absolute pot luck on how bic the next fish would be, 85 gram lure cast far and deep, might catch a pollock 6 inch long, or a 17 gram lure 20 foot out might pull in a 4lber, or anything in between
But finn was hammering the codling as well, all just pin whiting sized, but he was catching them whilst float fishing, big single fresh black lug, dropped either over the side of the pier or six foot out from the rock edges, and bang, pollock, coalie or codling. I've never seen em caught float fishing before, all as red as goldfish, and all carefully put back
no sign of much else, but then again, if there was anything else there they didn't get a look in.
will sort the piccies out later
makes you wonder. Don't think I'll even bother taking it back this time, don't see the point. (anyone want to buy any greys butt sections?)
absolutely millions of fish up there this time, the pier at kiclhoan was nuts, the local shellfish co-operative had just landed a weeks catch on the pier, and that included, hundreds and hundreds of boxes of velvets, which as they sorted them resulted in a pile of several tousand dead uns, which were just hoyed over the pier side, cracking ground bait for next tide!
managed to pull in heaps of pollock and coalies best 5 to 6lb ish, but a fish every cast almost, every single day, at every state of the tide. absolute pot luck on how bic the next fish would be, 85 gram lure cast far and deep, might catch a pollock 6 inch long, or a 17 gram lure 20 foot out might pull in a 4lber, or anything in between
But finn was hammering the codling as well, all just pin whiting sized, but he was catching them whilst float fishing, big single fresh black lug, dropped either over the side of the pier or six foot out from the rock edges, and bang, pollock, coalie or codling. I've never seen em caught float fishing before, all as red as goldfish, and all carefully put back
no sign of much else, but then again, if there was anything else there they didn't get a look in.
will sort the piccies out later
excellent report as usual mark pleased you had a goodun mate 
