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... the fishing goes absolutely mental!!!!!! :-D:-D
Madness today, absolutely crazy fishing.
Went down a cliff mark over the top of one of our biggest cliffs, straight down. Might take a rope to aid a few tricky parts coming back up next time.
Started with a schoolboy error, got the the bottom, went to tie a lure on, no scissors, in the van, that's a session with no scissors or knife then!!
But the catch...
Well I lost count a bit for one mental hour.
14 or 15 pollack, 2 bass, 3 gars, 3 wrasse.
here's some pics.
The best pollack was approaching 3lb I guess and the gar in the pic was nearly 2ft long, huge fish, well over the pound mark.
What you don't see there is the other bass I caught...
it's a bit embarrasing though...
Took it on a homemade brown SP, it went mental, got it in, netted, unhooked, put down to put on lure forum measure and get scales out, two big wriggles and I saw it go between my legs, another flick and it was sliding down the rocks toward the sea in ultimate slow motion with a noooooooooooo coming out of my mouth in equal slow motion watching it smile as it entered the water head first and vanished with a flick of the tail. Gutted. It was between 4 and 5lb, I would place it at 4.5lb in my experience. really needed that for the club and would have pushed me into second.
The fishing slowed up after that and it was time to drag myself back up. Super happy but gutted beyond belief at the same time.
And, most fish on a new lure for me!! Xrap 110 in Glass Ghost, suspends almost bang on right out the box and all fish bar the gars took the front hook. The big gar got all 3 points of the treble in it's mouth.
Also lost a lot of fish on the way in, some of them felt like good bass. Why did I lose them??
IMO it was the new rod which just arrived, cheapo HRF rod in the Shimano Vengeance, the new 2011 range. £30 and it felt good in the shop but when fishing it's just too soft, I mean really really soft, not enough backbone to set the hook proper, the big bass was on the Infeet which I took down with me just in case. So review of the rod on first use is that i won't be using it much, simply too soft for lure fishing, couldn't keep contact with the lure to feel them proper and bites were missed as well as not really feelign a fight from a fish much as it was bent double the whole time. Get what you pay for I guess!!
Madness today, absolutely crazy fishing.
Went down a cliff mark over the top of one of our biggest cliffs, straight down. Might take a rope to aid a few tricky parts coming back up next time.
Started with a schoolboy error, got the the bottom, went to tie a lure on, no scissors, in the van, that's a session with no scissors or knife then!!
But the catch...
Well I lost count a bit for one mental hour.
14 or 15 pollack, 2 bass, 3 gars, 3 wrasse.
here's some pics.





The best pollack was approaching 3lb I guess and the gar in the pic was nearly 2ft long, huge fish, well over the pound mark.
What you don't see there is the other bass I caught...
it's a bit embarrasing though...
Took it on a homemade brown SP, it went mental, got it in, netted, unhooked, put down to put on lure forum measure and get scales out, two big wriggles and I saw it go between my legs, another flick and it was sliding down the rocks toward the sea in ultimate slow motion with a noooooooooooo coming out of my mouth in equal slow motion watching it smile as it entered the water head first and vanished with a flick of the tail. Gutted. It was between 4 and 5lb, I would place it at 4.5lb in my experience. really needed that for the club and would have pushed me into second.
The fishing slowed up after that and it was time to drag myself back up. Super happy but gutted beyond belief at the same time.
And, most fish on a new lure for me!! Xrap 110 in Glass Ghost, suspends almost bang on right out the box and all fish bar the gars took the front hook. The big gar got all 3 points of the treble in it's mouth.
Also lost a lot of fish on the way in, some of them felt like good bass. Why did I lose them??
IMO it was the new rod which just arrived, cheapo HRF rod in the Shimano Vengeance, the new 2011 range. £30 and it felt good in the shop but when fishing it's just too soft, I mean really really soft, not enough backbone to set the hook proper, the big bass was on the Infeet which I took down with me just in case. So review of the rod on first use is that i won't be using it much, simply too soft for lure fishing, couldn't keep contact with the lure to feel them proper and bites were missed as well as not really feelign a fight from a fish much as it was bent double the whole time. Get what you pay for I guess!!
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