More a reminder to myself for when I start filling in a diary more than anything, but this was the day that Iestyn, Nathan, Robert and myself had a bash on the south coast. Meeting at 7.30am, I'd had a long fog covered drive to get there. On arrival Iestyn was already waiting, while Nath was traditionally half an hour behind ;-)
The water was looking a tad calm for my liking and also crystal clear so we were always going to be in for a bit of a struggle.
Robert and I started off in one direction while Nath and Iestyn headed the other. We were about an hour after high tide at this point so it was nice having a bit of water to chuck in to. I wouldn't have been feeling at all confident if it'd been any shallower. I'd taken my lighter outfit down so that I could mostly mess around with soft baits and only smaller hard lures. I don't think I took one lure over 12cm with me.
It was a beautiful morning, but fish activity was low. Robert did have a small group of bass swim slowly past in front of him, but that was pretty much all we saw, other than plenty of tiny, tiny sandeels. There seem to be a lot of these very small fish around on the South and up here on the North at the moment.
After a couple of hours just before we were about to head back towards Nath and Iestyn, I did have one nice take on a soft bait on the drop. The rod lurched forward quite violently before dropping slack again. Lovely take, but I think the weedless hook struggled to hook up. Shame.
On finding the other two, Nath had lost a nice one at his feet. For a while we fished in close proximity and I was blessed enough to hook a pretty pollack of about a pound. At least people were there to witness this one - I'm so often fishing by myself that I'd not be surprised if nobody believed I've ever caught a fish!
We struggled on for a short while in the calm water before the others decided to call it a day. It still felt early to be though and with a pile of small baits in my pockets, I stil had a little confidence that if I could find a fish and drop a bit in front of it then it may well have a go. As it turned out, I didn't actually fish much, but mostly spent the next hour or so just exploring the low water line. It became increasingly difficult to fish as the water drained away, although I did get to eye up a lot of the kelp beds below the low tide line. Seeing the ground we were fishing over in full detail, I'm not at all surprised I caught the pollack where I did.
Anyway, another sunny day in cornwall today and there's a nice bit of swell running up here on the north coast. If time allows I'll pop out later and try to sneak one out.
The water was looking a tad calm for my liking and also crystal clear so we were always going to be in for a bit of a struggle.
Robert and I started off in one direction while Nath and Iestyn headed the other. We were about an hour after high tide at this point so it was nice having a bit of water to chuck in to. I wouldn't have been feeling at all confident if it'd been any shallower. I'd taken my lighter outfit down so that I could mostly mess around with soft baits and only smaller hard lures. I don't think I took one lure over 12cm with me.
It was a beautiful morning, but fish activity was low. Robert did have a small group of bass swim slowly past in front of him, but that was pretty much all we saw, other than plenty of tiny, tiny sandeels. There seem to be a lot of these very small fish around on the South and up here on the North at the moment.
After a couple of hours just before we were about to head back towards Nath and Iestyn, I did have one nice take on a soft bait on the drop. The rod lurched forward quite violently before dropping slack again. Lovely take, but I think the weedless hook struggled to hook up. Shame.
On finding the other two, Nath had lost a nice one at his feet. For a while we fished in close proximity and I was blessed enough to hook a pretty pollack of about a pound. At least people were there to witness this one - I'm so often fishing by myself that I'd not be surprised if nobody believed I've ever caught a fish!
We struggled on for a short while in the calm water before the others decided to call it a day. It still felt early to be though and with a pile of small baits in my pockets, I stil had a little confidence that if I could find a fish and drop a bit in front of it then it may well have a go. As it turned out, I didn't actually fish much, but mostly spent the next hour or so just exploring the low water line. It became increasingly difficult to fish as the water drained away, although I did get to eye up a lot of the kelp beds below the low tide line. Seeing the ground we were fishing over in full detail, I'm not at all surprised I caught the pollack where I did.
Anyway, another sunny day in cornwall today and there's a nice bit of swell running up here on the north coast. If time allows I'll pop out later and try to sneak one out.