Popular Post Malc Posted May 28, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 28, 2022 It's been a bit grey here today so I looked at the tide times for our local pier and headed off with my spinning rod to get bait for our boat competition in a fortnight's time. The pier is a mile long and I like to fish the flood from the end. It wasn't long before I had the first long fat snake and shortly after another but smaller. It then got quiet for a while and I got distracted by a dolphin and got well snagged up. I use a piece of broomshank to break out but as I did that I could feel a fish had pulled it out. Now I have had pollock just short of double figures on this rod and judging by the bend and fight I might have something near 5lb or so. After pumping it to the side of the pier I saw 3 plump coalfish attached to my sabikis. I use 20lb braid and there's a combined weight of 3 or 4 pounds of fish to haul up! I wound down as far as possible and lifted up managed to grab the line a foot or two above the trace and pulled gently and grabbed the trace unhooked and returned the lovely coalies. Managed a double shot of pollock much smaller and off home after a couple of hours. I'm now sat in blazing sunshine and contemplating a beer 🍺 Sometimes it's the little things 😁 GPSguru, daio web, Geoff and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daio web Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 sounds like a nice few hours out beats sitting at home doing the hoovering shame you dident catch any bait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted May 28, 2022 Author Share Posted May 28, 2022 53 minutes ago, daio web said: sounds like a nice few hours out beats sitting at home doing the hoovering shame you dident catch any bait Kept the launce for bait and may go back tomorrow too 👍 daio web 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 Sounds like a nice afternoon, almost like being a boy again!! daio web 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 Lovely write up Malc. I enjoyed reading that. 👍 Malc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 Any pictures? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted May 28, 2022 Author Share Posted May 28, 2022 1 hour ago, JonC said: Any pictures? Soz, too busy fishing Andy135 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted May 29, 2022 Author Share Posted May 29, 2022 What a difference a day makes! Went to the same place today and the sea is mucky with lots of small pieces of weed and few fish and a blank for me. Watched a cable layer get hauled out to sea which was interesting, wouldn't want to be anywhere near the towing hawser if it broke 😳 Andy135 and suzook12 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 41 minutes ago, Malc said: What a difference a day makes! Went to the same place today and the sea is mucky with lots of small pieces of weed and few fish and a blank for me. Watched a cable layer get hauled out to sea which was interesting, wouldn't want to be anywhere near the towing hawser if it broke 😳 Nice picture, thanks it means a lot to me. Jon Malc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 4 hours ago, JonC said: Nice picture, thanks it means a lot to me. Jon Especially if you are an Essex inbred and illiterate ...........🙄😛 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 11 minutes ago, GPSguru said: Especially if you are an Essex inbred and illiterate ...........🙄😛 I do struggle with the longer words GPSguru 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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