Popular Post mike farrants Posted September 20, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 20, 2022 plan for Sunday was a close in day on my boat pugwash, me and Tim going for a few species - needed a couple to tick off the species hunt. Main aim of the day was to bag a gar fish or two on the float - but also to have a bit of fun on the light gear in and around portland harbour walls and structure - wrasse, gurnards, mackerel Pollock - that sort of thing. so we heard rumours that the squid were starting to show over at Boscombe pier, and I need no more encouragement than a rumour to go for these magnificent creatures. Squid jigs dusted off. We met at 8am and chugged out to the first (North) entrance, dropped 3 squid jigs down on one rod and feathers on the other - Tim did the same - no word of a lie within 10 mins I had a squid like 'take' on the squid rod - easy does it and I land the first squid of the the season. we repeat the drift a few times more and end up with 5 squid of reasonable size - good for dinner or bait! cant believe we are catching them and we're still wearing shorts! Tim also gets a solitary mackerel, a pollock and baby bream on his sabikis. we move up to the 2nd entrance (checkers) and begin a long drift in and across the harbour - set with a dexter on the spinning rod, and float with sandeel/mackerel strip - we have a long slow unproductive drift until near the end we see a splash behind Tims float as a decent gar hammers his bait. One in the bag. We then move over the 3rd entrance where HMS Hood is scuppered with the plan to fish lures for bass and mackerel over the wreck - the wind and tide together meant the drift was too fast to hold over the wreck for any length of time - so we switch back to the float gear and drift out of the entrance - we proceeded to have a couple of hours fun on the Garfish - these fish are excellent fun on light gear - really hammering the bait, fighting all the way to the boat with some very impressive leaps out of the water - immense fun on light gear! After a bucket full of Garfish (winter bait) we headed back towards harbour to try a close in small wreck - here we used flapper rigs and rag worm hoping for a gurnard or wrasse. we weren't disappointed - a steady run of bites and rattles and we hooked into a couple of wrasse on each drift - ballans and corkys - only small fish but great fun on light gear. at 4pm we called it a day - 5 squid, a half a bucket of Gars for the bait freezer, 2 species ticked off for me (Gar and Corkwing), and a thoroughly lovely day out on Pugwash. RFA Sir Tristram looking splendid in the Sept sunshine (if a little worse for wear) - now used for SBS and special forces training in portland Squid rings for a snack when i got home! jonnyswamp, Andy135, Geoff and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Excellent result Mike! A great day out and squid for tea! Sounds pretty ideal to me 👍 September is early for squid. I seem to remember October is the usual month for them in Weymouth area? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike farrants Posted September 20, 2022 Author Share Posted September 20, 2022 think it was November before they showed last year Andy135 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 Great dangling Mike! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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