peter.m
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Had a trip across with Howitzer and theleek. Stayed at Sands of Luce caravan park. Excellent vans for a short stay.
Fished Saturday on the west side near Dunskey Castle. Nothing big but plenty of sport on and off with pollock and wrasse to around 2lb. Pollock were favouring sandeel with the wrasse nailing ragworm when the tide slackened off. A few coalies mixed in the catch.
Next morning went off to East Tarbit and fished the dropping tide. Again plenty pollock and wrasse with the odd mackerel. Big rods out with big fish baits produced a few doggies.
Evening session on a lovely warm night was back across the west side for the flood. Fished a mark down from Logan and had good sport with a decent stamp of pollock and coalies. Most of the pollock around 1.5lb to 2.5lb. Again a few wrasse and mackerel. Most caught on floated sandeel but a few falling to spinners. When it went slack I had a few pollock to jellyworms on a leadhead slowly bumped across the bottom. They gave good solid takes and fought well. Still catching into darkness with daylights on the floats.
A lovely sunset
Decided to be good lads and not go too heavy on the beer so we could get up at 5.00am for another session on that mark at first light. It paid off with fish straight away. The lads got pollock on the float while I got three in first four chucks as well as missed takes with the jellyworm. Wind picked up with the light and the fish started to thin out so off at 9.30am for breakfast and a kip. Best fish of the session had been Howitzer's pollock pushing 3.5lb.
One of the early morning pollock
Tried Terrally Bay in the afternoon but that was when the rain came hard and after half an hours soaking we called it a day.
All in all a good weekend. Spoke to the bloke in Ardwell Marine and he says there has been plenty of pollock in that range this year but the bigeer fish have been more scarce. Will add some photos when I figure out how to put them up on the new site.
Fished Saturday on the west side near Dunskey Castle. Nothing big but plenty of sport on and off with pollock and wrasse to around 2lb. Pollock were favouring sandeel with the wrasse nailing ragworm when the tide slackened off. A few coalies mixed in the catch.
Next morning went off to East Tarbit and fished the dropping tide. Again plenty pollock and wrasse with the odd mackerel. Big rods out with big fish baits produced a few doggies.
Evening session on a lovely warm night was back across the west side for the flood. Fished a mark down from Logan and had good sport with a decent stamp of pollock and coalies. Most of the pollock around 1.5lb to 2.5lb. Again a few wrasse and mackerel. Most caught on floated sandeel but a few falling to spinners. When it went slack I had a few pollock to jellyworms on a leadhead slowly bumped across the bottom. They gave good solid takes and fought well. Still catching into darkness with daylights on the floats.
A lovely sunset
Decided to be good lads and not go too heavy on the beer so we could get up at 5.00am for another session on that mark at first light. It paid off with fish straight away. The lads got pollock on the float while I got three in first four chucks as well as missed takes with the jellyworm. Wind picked up with the light and the fish started to thin out so off at 9.30am for breakfast and a kip. Best fish of the session had been Howitzer's pollock pushing 3.5lb.
One of the early morning pollock
Tried Terrally Bay in the afternoon but that was when the rain came hard and after half an hours soaking we called it a day.
All in all a good weekend. Spoke to the bloke in Ardwell Marine and he says there has been plenty of pollock in that range this year but the bigeer fish have been more scarce. Will add some photos when I figure out how to put them up on the new site.
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