fishingmark
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Fished the brass ball on ssp Saturday. Got to the pier for about 9.45 and with the strong Westerly and the tide on the ebb I decided to hit the round end, got set up with some yellowtails that a lad gave me the day the day before (thanks for that) and some cracking slappy blacks from Moonfleet. With the wind behind me I was getting some great wind assisted casts and with the strong tide pull me gear was miles further out than normal.
It was fish from the off with codling between the 30-35cm mark, they felt a lot bigger coming in with the strong tidal pull and the wind against. This was the story all of the time I was there, a codling every 15 mins or so, at least 20 in total, plenty sport but nothing any size.
I was pretty much the only one catching fish but there were not many others fishing, loads of foreign types macky bashing with no success at all. One Chinese lass was practically in tears seeing me chuck all of the fish back but I explained that they were too small to keep. I did get one sized one at 36cm and gut hooked so she got one to take home.
I had a go again this morning about 9.30 at the same spot and it was the same as yesterday with the same stamp of codling and three decent sized dabs. By about 12 the wind was getting ridiculous as I could barely cast with the strong gusts so I packed up and headed down the pier. What a trek that was against the wind, I was knackered when I got back to the car park!
A canny couple of sessions with plenty fish, still got some blacks left so I will probably get out after work in the next couple of days, hoping for that bigger codling.
The set was really clear so I got a quick pic, hitting this was when I got the most bites.
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It was fish from the off with codling between the 30-35cm mark, they felt a lot bigger coming in with the strong tidal pull and the wind against. This was the story all of the time I was there, a codling every 15 mins or so, at least 20 in total, plenty sport but nothing any size.
I was pretty much the only one catching fish but there were not many others fishing, loads of foreign types macky bashing with no success at all. One Chinese lass was practically in tears seeing me chuck all of the fish back but I explained that they were too small to keep. I did get one sized one at 36cm and gut hooked so she got one to take home.
I had a go again this morning about 9.30 at the same spot and it was the same as yesterday with the same stamp of codling and three decent sized dabs. By about 12 the wind was getting ridiculous as I could barely cast with the strong gusts so I packed up and headed down the pier. What a trek that was against the wind, I was knackered when I got back to the car park!
A canny couple of sessions with plenty fish, still got some blacks left so I will probably get out after work in the next couple of days, hoping for that bigger codling.
The set was really clear so I got a quick pic, hitting this was when I got the most bites.
