MOG and the camera shy Pollock

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Headed over friday night to give ourself an early start saturday morning and Made camp at East Tarbet. Got up nice and early saturday and headed down to our chosen mark,

Sigsy opting to float where as i chose to spin, third cast bang fish on,

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It wasnt long before sigsy was in to with fish falling to lures and floats, avarage size 1-2lb but a good few 3-5lb as well.

My biggist falling to a jelly eel but being a bit camera shy and managed to flap away at the worst possable moment, leaving me looking a right tit lol sigsys best managing to escape before we got a pic as well

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Managed to winkel this little bliter out after he tied me up in the rocks (was bing to cocky with the drag lol), decided to sit back and have a smoke while he was hiding in the rocks, gave him plenty of slack line, next thing i know hes out and running.

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floating close in produced a few wrasse sigsy losing the best of of the day on the lift, it would of been about 4lb i reckon.

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all in all a nce sech, and we both lost a very good fish, mine snagging me on a bouy and sigsys snapping the handle on his reel !!!. Was please to get my first fish on a jelly but disapointing the wrasse didnt take one.
 
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I know that mark :) you want them bigger and on lures try black worms with gold tails :) in a 4 hour session we've had 97 between us :) all between 2 and 6lb :)
 
Na for wrasse do not use rag, best baits there IMO are hardback crab, peeler, or one that worked really well for us mussel :)

And na it's rare that wrasse chase lures :) I said that colour just because I know that colour has never let me down and pretty much on a warm day produce a fish a cast :) on overcast days I use orange with red tails they work well when there ain't as much light :) but make sure the jellies are the long 8-10" ones :)

You can get some nice conger there just infront at night with a nice flapper, we've had them up to 21lb :)

If you knew this just ignore me :) haha, just sharing some knowledge from 6 years fishing there ;)
 
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Na for wrasse do not use rag, best baits there IMO are hardback crab, peeler, or one that worked really well for us mussel :)

And na it's rare that wrasse chase lures :) I said that colour just because I know that colour has never let me down and pretty much on a warm day produce a fish a cast :) on overcast days I use orange with red tails they work well when there ain't as much light :) but make sure the jellies are the long 8-10" ones :)

You can get some nice conger there just infront at night with a nice flapper, we've had them up to 21lb :)

If you knew this just ignore me :) haha, just sharing some knowledge from 6 years fishing there ;)
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lol cheers for the info, am trying to get a wrasse on a jelly, aparrently they go nuts for them, the HRF and LRF lads target them with jellys.
 
Yeah, ive tried too. Ive been in that pool you were floating for wrasse in. We had some scuba gear with us to see what we were fishing into :) Obviously tethered to the side, you will probably know why, but there is a wide range of species in that pool :) Theres even some sizeable cookoo wrasse :) Ive tried running jellies as close to wall as possible, slow, fast, everything never succeeded. But had 30+ on floats, fishing tight to the rocks as deep as you can :) some days float hits the water and instantly disappears :)

But the floor of that pool is 60% kelp the rest is rocky very rocky, with it varying from 17ft, to upwards of 35 in parts believe it or not :)

Spend a good half an hour down there :) Even got to see a conger :O Scary when you turn round and there is a 6ft eel grinning 3 ft away from you :P
 
Good report mate
Good to see the fish are being caught in numbers up there now
 

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