dowly
Well-known member
11/9/11
Was going to fish rat house corner as we had a productive sesh there on tuesday night but had to drive to gosforth to collect my winning betting slip
to pay for the bait. Bought lug from Fraser's as that's all they had left and ended up going to Asda for mackerel but they didn't have any, we settled with a raw sea food medley pack with squid prawns and mussels in. As we were in town anyway and i always see people fishing along the quayside when passing on the metro i thought id give it a shot.
When we got there there was a load of people fishing to the left of the bridge so we went to the right. After no bites in 2 hours i had a wonder to the left and had a bit crack with a bloke. Turns out it was a club do but got talking about bait and hook size. I was using a 1 hook flapper with size 3/0 on. The bloke said it was far too big and showed me his hooks. I've never seen as small hooks being used before so went to change to a 2 hook flapper using the smallest hooks I had with me. He gave me a mackerel fillet as well so if you're on here thanks again. Cracking advise, 6 fish in the next hour just using a smaller hook with a bit mackerel, squid and prawn on. Ended with 1 decent flatty, 2 under sized codling and 3 of the smallest flatties id ever seen.
Was a bit windy but turned out to be a canny sesh with after the hook change but wanting to start catching bigger fish now. Where are the big fish!?
Was going to fish rat house corner as we had a productive sesh there on tuesday night but had to drive to gosforth to collect my winning betting slip
to pay for the bait. Bought lug from Fraser's as that's all they had left and ended up going to Asda for mackerel but they didn't have any, we settled with a raw sea food medley pack with squid prawns and mussels in. As we were in town anyway and i always see people fishing along the quayside when passing on the metro i thought id give it a shot.When we got there there was a load of people fishing to the left of the bridge so we went to the right. After no bites in 2 hours i had a wonder to the left and had a bit crack with a bloke. Turns out it was a club do but got talking about bait and hook size. I was using a 1 hook flapper with size 3/0 on. The bloke said it was far too big and showed me his hooks. I've never seen as small hooks being used before so went to change to a 2 hook flapper using the smallest hooks I had with me. He gave me a mackerel fillet as well so if you're on here thanks again. Cracking advise, 6 fish in the next hour just using a smaller hook with a bit mackerel, squid and prawn on. Ended with 1 decent flatty, 2 under sized codling and 3 of the smallest flatties id ever seen.
Was a bit windy but turned out to be a canny sesh with after the hook change but wanting to start catching bigger fish now. Where are the big fish!?
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