During the week we had planned to venture down to the holderness coast, however after seeing the forcast we decided on a trip up to St Abbs.
We arrived at the mark at 10 past 4 am (st abbs head). The fishing was slow to begin with only a couple of mackerel falling to spinners and a codling of 1.5lb taking a crab bait dropped down the side.
After a while we started picking up the odd coalie, then it went dead over low water. This is when I decided to try hardback crab under a float with wrasse being the target species. I had a couple of good takes that I missed and one that i couldnt stop and hung me up in the kelp.
I had just cast out a fresh crab and put my rod on my stand to get something from my bag when my rod was nearly pulled in. I grabbed my rod and the fish was hooked. It had my rod bent right through and made some strong dives for the kelp. After a good scrap i managed to bully it to the surface, A lovely fish and also a new personal best pollock. It went 8lb 4oz on the scales.
From then on it was relatively quiet untill high water when we were picking up mackerel nearly every cast on spinners. I decided to venture away from the mark armed with a float and a bucket of small hardback crabs to try and catch a wrasse from some of the gullies further to the south. I managed a small brightly coloured pollock from one gully and that was all.
We packed up around 5 oclock quite content with the days fishing. It makes it worth while getting a decent fish even if the fishing is slow most of the day.
Heres a few photos of the session, Thanks for reading, Karl
We arrived at the mark at 10 past 4 am (st abbs head). The fishing was slow to begin with only a couple of mackerel falling to spinners and a codling of 1.5lb taking a crab bait dropped down the side.
After a while we started picking up the odd coalie, then it went dead over low water. This is when I decided to try hardback crab under a float with wrasse being the target species. I had a couple of good takes that I missed and one that i couldnt stop and hung me up in the kelp.
I had just cast out a fresh crab and put my rod on my stand to get something from my bag when my rod was nearly pulled in. I grabbed my rod and the fish was hooked. It had my rod bent right through and made some strong dives for the kelp. After a good scrap i managed to bully it to the surface, A lovely fish and also a new personal best pollock. It went 8lb 4oz on the scales.
From then on it was relatively quiet untill high water when we were picking up mackerel nearly every cast on spinners. I decided to venture away from the mark armed with a float and a bucket of small hardback crabs to try and catch a wrasse from some of the gullies further to the south. I managed a small brightly coloured pollock from one gully and that was all.
We packed up around 5 oclock quite content with the days fishing. It makes it worth while getting a decent fish even if the fishing is slow most of the day.
Heres a few photos of the session, Thanks for reading, Karl
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