Popular Post jonnyswamp Posted October 23, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2021 (edited) After reading about Codling being caught (and a few good doubles ) I have been desperate to get out, but the wind was stopping any chance of that A weather window opened up between 7pm Friday and 7am Saturday, so a few calls were made to my regular crew and bait was ordered Arrived early and just scraped into the 5.30 outbound lock, along with 2 wafi's and another fishing boat A quick chat to the guys in the fishing boat revealed they weren't revealing anything, one of them had caught 1 nice fish last week and obviously thought he'd found the end of the rainbow and wasn't about to spill the beans Slipped out of the lock on to a flat sea (it was a Westerly and Penarth is sheltered with these) and made our way to the Newport end of the long sand bank near Cardiff North Watched secret squirrel race in front of the 2 yachts and properly cut them up to get to his rainbows end on the Coral, gives us all a bad name Myself, Shuff and Nipper had our baits out well before 6.15 ready for the darkness Tide was ripping through at an easy 5 kts and the 8 oz Gemini's were struggling to hold bottom, with 16 oz needed on the down tiders Nothing for the first hour, but when the tide started to ease, the bites started A few Blondes came up, with Shuff's going 14lb I hooked into a large Ray (Blonde probably) that I couldn't get up off the bottom, no matter what I did, that eventually snapped/bit through my trace Had I got it up in the tide, it's very doubtful I would have been able to land it A steady stream of strap Conger (to around 8/10lb) a few dogs, a few more smaller Blondes and 1 Bullhuss around the double figure mark kept us busy over high water and an hour into the ebb, until the tide got too strong and up we anchored Moved to the outer coral hoping the tide wasn't so bad, but after an hour of kiting, we moved again into Rannie pool area This was a lot easier to fish, had there been any fish there ! We moved again about half hour or so before low water (2.30 ish) to gully/hole a couple of hundred yards out, where, once the tide turns we would be right over the middle of it Low water brought unforecast strong Westerlies that kept us side on well into the flood, and obviously scared any marine life away A quick call to the Barrage to check water levels and the anchor was pulled and we headed towards the bright lights of the Bay through 5/6ft of water and finally into the 4.45 inbound lock So just the one photo (sorry JonC) and it's not of a Cod Got a cancelled South Coast trip to look forward to this Monday, so it's not all bad 😬 Hope next weekend is good, because the tides look perfect Edited October 24, 2021 by jonnyswamp JonC, suzook12, Dicky and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Good effort getting out. That's a nice ray. Good dangling and good skippering 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 32 minutes ago, Andy135 said: Good effort getting out. That's a nice ray. Good dangling and good skippering 👍 What did he catch? There’s no pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 44 minutes ago, JonC said: What did he catch? There’s no pictures. I'll keep it a surprise for you until he embeds his photo. JonC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Nice going. There something special about fishing into the dark! Adds an air of mystery. JonC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Good session 🙂 I’ve heard you need to fish between the Monkstone bank and the middle bank. Fish it over low tide. Over high tide fish the inside of the Cardiff mid anchoring on edge of the bank as you do up on the English Welsh. My sources tell me that this is where some of the better cod are as they stocking up on prawn and Sandeel which are found in the banks Andy135 and jonnyswamp 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyswamp Posted October 24, 2021 Author Share Posted October 24, 2021 15 hours ago, Odyssey said: Good session 🙂 I’ve heard you need to fish between the Monkstone bank and the middle bank. Fish it over low tide. Over high tide fish the inside of the Cardiff mid anchoring on edge of the bank as you do up on the English Welsh. My sources tell me that this is where some of the better cod are as they stocking up on prawn and Sandeel which are found in the banks That's where we were 2 hrs either side of low, albeit a lot nearer the middle bank, until the tide got too much The tide would have been screaming between the banks and I didn't have any grippers bigger than 8oz, but will give your advice a go next time I get out on a smaller tide That's not going to be anytime soon by the look at the forecast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyswamp Posted October 24, 2021 Author Share Posted October 24, 2021 18 hours ago, JonC said: What did he catch? There’s no pictures. It wouldn't embed yesterday, fuck knows why, but it did today 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 10 hours ago, jonnyswamp said: That's where we were 2 hrs either side of low, albeit a lot nearer the middle bank, until the tide got too much The tide would have been screaming between the banks and I didn't have any grippers bigger than 8oz, but will give your advice a go next time I get out on a smaller tide That's not going to be anytime soon by the look at the forecast Ah never mind! It’s a good spot but hopefully they’ll arrive in numbers soon 🙂 jonnyswamp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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