St Peter’s Basin

I know I have not posted a catch report in a while as I have been ill on and off for a month or so, I got out fishing when I could and when I did it was St Peters Basin for two weeks. One week was good and the other wasn’t so good. So here it goes.

We first fished St Peter’s basin two weeks ago and the catch turned out great which you may have seen below. We started fishing not too long after 10am and it was low water. Immediately we seen that it was going to be a good day because we where catching very small codling no bigger than a few inches. But as the tide began to come in so did the fish my dad was the first one to be in which a half decent fish and it turned out to be the biggest fish of the day weighing in at just over 2lb.

There was a Portuguese fella who is very familiar with us who we speak to each week so we happily gave our fish to him as it was the first of the day. Next to have a nice fish was Graham, he too was into a nice fish which was also another codlin just over 1lb. It was safely returned to fight another day due to it being undersized. In between these couple of fish, small codlin where still being caught but next it was my turn, I too was into a codlin which weighed in at under 2lb but was still a nice fish.

Again!, to no surprise my dad was in again to another codlin once again under 2lb and no sooner than he had cast out his rod was knocking again! But this one felt different, once he reeled in, to his surprise he caught a whiting topping the scales at 2lb which was not expected due to the early catch. Now the tide had caught up with us and sooner than we knew it it was high tide. Nothing much was caught after this point and if it was it was quite dismal.

Well to be honest with you there’s not much to say for the following week. But we had a sharp start at 8am and it was a gorgeous sunrise. Three of us fished once again, me, my dad and graham. Surprise surprise, my dad was into the first fish of the day in his first cast! It was an impressive flatty weighing well over 2lb. And a promising catch for the day.

After a few casts, once again small codlin where being caught. But what a misleading sight. Graham too was into a flatfish coming in at just under 2lb. There’s really not much more to say apart from that the weather held out on us as you will se in the next pictures but all in all a great 2weeks fishing.