ChrisH
Well-known member
I finished work this morning and had a look at the sea; perfect. So I decided to have a chuck at my favourite beach mark up the coast a bit tonight. Got up there for about 6pm. The first hour was nothing but weed and I was considering moving to another mark but the weed was starting to ease off. I decided to wait and see if it cleared off altogether hoping that if it did, the fish would move in.
I'm glad I decided to wait because as soon as the weed was gone; BANG! I lifted into a good fish and got it moving only to go solid after a few yards. I waited hoping that the fish would pull out of the snag; no luck.
I was using 80lb braid and 30lb to my sinker so I decided to pull. I wrapped the line around my arm and walked back a couple of paces and I felt something go. The sinker line had snapped as I'd hoped and I could still feel the fish. Not until I got it to within 20 yards of the beach did I realise it was a doubler. It turned and tried to head back out, so I had to stop winding and I walked out into the water to ease the pressure, I managed to get it turned again and used the rollers to help land it. I grabbed it by the throat under the gills and as I was walking back up to my box it was wrenching my arm as it was thrashing. I had one more bite which didn't come back so ended up with just the one fish; my best this season was 6lbs 12ozs before this one. I weighed it at home on a set of digital scales and it went 11lbs 12ozs. It was caught on razor and runnydown.
Nice way to end the year.
I'm glad I decided to wait because as soon as the weed was gone; BANG! I lifted into a good fish and got it moving only to go solid after a few yards. I waited hoping that the fish would pull out of the snag; no luck.
I was using 80lb braid and 30lb to my sinker so I decided to pull. I wrapped the line around my arm and walked back a couple of paces and I felt something go. The sinker line had snapped as I'd hoped and I could still feel the fish. Not until I got it to within 20 yards of the beach did I realise it was a doubler. It turned and tried to head back out, so I had to stop winding and I walked out into the water to ease the pressure, I managed to get it turned again and used the rollers to help land it. I grabbed it by the throat under the gills and as I was walking back up to my box it was wrenching my arm as it was thrashing. I had one more bite which didn't come back so ended up with just the one fish; my best this season was 6lbs 12ozs before this one. I weighed it at home on a set of digital scales and it went 11lbs 12ozs. It was caught on razor and runnydown.
Nice way to end the year.
