Stewart 1971
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With a bit bait left over from Saturday night I decided on a few hours down Roker this afternoon. Got down there a couple of hours before HT to find it blowing a hoolie from the west / south west but undeterred I made the trek along the pier and set myself up about 30 yards short of the bunker.
Ususal plan, two rods, two hook flappers with small hooks and ragworm / bluey for bait. Got the first rod baited up with rag and cast out then disaster! I couldn't find my bait elastic anywhere. I must have left it in my smock pocket on Saturday night then it's fell out onto the road as I was packing the car away at the end of the session. Despite the hassle I carried on though the bluey was a right pita to bait up.
Anyhoo things were very slow indeed, fished for an hour and a half before I got my first bite and a tiddly Dab on ragworm to save the blank:
Fished on for another biteless hour up the end then decided to make a move down to the barrier for the first couple of hours of the ebb. Almost straight away down here I was getting bites both on the down the side rod and the cast out rod but nothing was hanging on. I reckon the fish were hitting the bluey hooks and as it wasn't tied on they was able to just pull the bait away without hooking themselves - nothing was touching the ragworm but every time the other hook was coming back clean.
Eventually called it a day and packed up just before 5pm as I was getting fed up with bites and no fish, even going down to size 4 hooks didn't help. Even though the wind was westerly it was still chilly down there - I can't believe it is May next week and I'm still fishing all floatied up during the day. At least on the positive side the water seems to be clearing up nicely though with northerlies forecast for Friday night that will no doubt bugger things up for the weekend fishing
Ususal plan, two rods, two hook flappers with small hooks and ragworm / bluey for bait. Got the first rod baited up with rag and cast out then disaster! I couldn't find my bait elastic anywhere. I must have left it in my smock pocket on Saturday night then it's fell out onto the road as I was packing the car away at the end of the session. Despite the hassle I carried on though the bluey was a right pita to bait up.
Anyhoo things were very slow indeed, fished for an hour and a half before I got my first bite and a tiddly Dab on ragworm to save the blank:
Fished on for another biteless hour up the end then decided to make a move down to the barrier for the first couple of hours of the ebb. Almost straight away down here I was getting bites both on the down the side rod and the cast out rod but nothing was hanging on. I reckon the fish were hitting the bluey hooks and as it wasn't tied on they was able to just pull the bait away without hooking themselves - nothing was touching the ragworm but every time the other hook was coming back clean.
Eventually called it a day and packed up just before 5pm as I was getting fed up with bites and no fish, even going down to size 4 hooks didn't help. Even though the wind was westerly it was still chilly down there - I can't believe it is May next week and I'm still fishing all floatied up during the day. At least on the positive side the water seems to be clearing up nicely though with northerlies forecast for Friday night that will no doubt bugger things up for the weekend fishing
