Recent days out

[Malc]

My wife has been visiting her twin sister so I have had time to fish my heart out. First was a session with my very good friends on their boat and although MSW said 0-1ft there was an onshore 1m+ swell which topped to nearly 2m at times but was fish able with care. Several codling and sometimes the lures were stopped several times on the way down by mackerel as there were so many. To top the day off we were drifting a wreck just outside the piers and got some nice photos of the sun setting and the moon rising over the marina. I have a better shot with the sun directly behind the lighthouse but its on my camera and I have not downloaded it yet. 

Next was a shot off the pier. 30 minutes and 3 big fat mackerel later and I am heading home to prepare them for the neighbours. A few E European people bagging up but lots of people without a scooby getting nowt.

Next was the kayak the next day hoping to find the herring, a big tide and when I am heading past the red pier there's a nasty chop, wind against tide so I peddle into the main channel and spot several shoals of bait fish and predator arches but I can't fish the channel from the kayak! I get to the spot where the tide kicks off the bend of the big pier and outside of the channel and drop down a set of micro sabikis hook size 12-14 and a 40gm koster on the point. The mackerel hit both! So after getting half a dozen I try other areas and I can't miss the mackerel, so I peddle back in at the top of the tide. The spots I saw the big shoals of bait fish are empty but I will be back. 

Day after next I go to the red pier with plenty of sabikis, I was a little early and lost some as I know where the snags are but I know fish will be close by but the low water means I misjudged it. Eventually I get a mackerel and would have returned it but I couldn't shake it off the hook into the water as the pier slopes out. Shortly after I thought I had a sandeel until it hit the tide rip close in and eventually I have my herring and followed by another before the tide slackens. Always good when a plan comes together. 

I've missed a couple of days that we not that remarkable but I decided to try early this morning and fish to the top of the tide and then an hour of the ebb. We had two days of easterly onshore and north easterly winds and a mix of sun and clouds but it was to be westerly and sunny in the morning, so another try for the herring. Second cast and I had one, about the length of my index finger 🤣 nothing else for 90 minutes towards high water and then the sabikis were fishing slow and deep and I got a succession of tiny codling and a single micro whiting! The wee codling looked lovely though. 

Then the dolphin turned up, tried to get photos but they are blurred or are shots of disturbed water. I have never seen them hunting as hard before, several times I saw them throw a fish in front of them as they jumped out of the water, amazing to see, I wished I had been out in the kayak with them.

[mike farrants]

cracking few sessions by the looks of it!

 

NIce one!

[Andy135]

Good work Malc - you've been hard at it. Very envious 👍

[Odyssey]

Good skills 🙂 

love the line “My wife has been visiting her twin sister so I have had time to fish my heart out” 

A like minded individual 🙂 

nice to see a good variety of fishies 🙂 

Edited August 19, 2022 by Odyssey