It’s not hard to guess where I’ve been fishing lately and I have no intention of slowing down. I have had over a handful of different species and some in quantities and some of eating size.
Tip: Carry light on the pier as it’s a long walk to the 40 plus marks.
Week 1
As usual, my dad and I got to the pier for around 8:30 am after dropping my Mam off for work. the time it had taken us to walk the pier and get set up, it was 9 am before we got our first cast. It took some time getting our first bite but when it did come it was not as a surprise. Once again we caught codlin for around 30 cm both of us in our first cast so we thought we were off to a good start.
Once we both had saved our blank, we got back to the fishing and it was great all day. After another 2 casts, i was into another fish. after reeling it in it turned out to be a hand sized flounder which put me ahead of my dad. No sooner than i had released my fish and watched it slowly swim away, i was almost hit by my dads line when he was into reeling in his 2nd fish of the day. It also turned out to be another flounder but of a larger size of 25 cm’s which beat mine by a mile. Unfortunately i was rushed to release these fish after it took time to release them due to swallowed hooks.
After a painful 2 hours and no fish showing in our court we decided to take a breather from staring at our rods and eat our lunch. You know, my Dad does this ting where he sometimes lights his cigarette or pours his coffee and when he’s halfway through it, he tends sometimes to get a bight and that he did. He told me he was in to a decent fish but I didn’t have faith due to the undersized fish showing up earlier on in the day. After a good few intense minutes it begin to surface in the water and it seamed to be another flounder until he got it up. It was a decent size fish and was not your ordinary flounder, in fact it was a 35.5 cm plaice which what seamed to be of a nice weight.
It was now 12 o’clock and the fishing began to slow down and we were into our last hour of fishing. We went all out with baits and presentation. It did pay off with ” fish for me and 1 fish for my dad. I caught a small 20 cm Dab and a very large mackerel. My Dad reeled in yet another codlin to finish the scores off.
We met a nice fella who had cycled all the way from Heburn to the pier to fish and he couldn’t have been a nicer person to talk to. He was very friendly and a great person to talk to.
Bait Used
Once again we had some outstanding fresh Ragworm from Fraisers Fishing Tackle. Whilst we also used old Black Lugworm which and been defrosted for 1 week and the last bait we used was frozen crab which was never touched.
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