Popular Post jonnyswamp Posted March 16, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted March 16, 2023 With the foreseeable future weekends being taken up I thought I'd take advantage of a slow builder (job not ready til next week) and pop out for few hrs before the winds and rain came in Just myself and Nipper got through the 7am lock and headed east to Clevedon, a small flooding tide allowed us to drop anchor on the English side of the shipping channel on a mark that's usually pretty good I had a small thornie on whole squid on the first drop of the downtide rod, and not a twitch on any of the 6 we had out for the next hour. Didn't want to waste any more time here as high water was around 12 ish and the wind and rain were forecast to increase from late morning onwards, so we would only have comfortable fishing up until high water A quick move out to the "English and Welsh" where we stayed for an hour, again without any success. Not even a bite Last move was back to the Welsh side just above the Newport Deeps buoy where I'd caught a nice 14.5lb Cod in Dec 21 A slow start here with the odd thornie coming up, then pretty much bang on high water things went very busy We ended up with 18-20 Thornbacks and 3 small Codling to 3.5lb, the majority caught around slack high water when it's usually just Congers that show themselves The wind and rain were still not as forecast, so we stayed until we'd used all our bait This corresponded with the swell and rain picking up, so we caught the 2.15pm lock back in A half decent end to a crap start, but some good sport for a few hrs No pictures cos Aussie Jon would slightly trump mine (if I actually took any that is) daio web, Malc, Saintly Fish and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daio web Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 great report mr swamp you done well its been slow up here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 Nice one Nick, but with no pics it could all just be a dream!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 Well dangled Nick. Sounds like a busy session in the end. 👍 jonnyswamp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 Good result 🙂 Its pretty quiet in the channel at the moment but give it a week or 2 and the hounds will be back off Minehead or out in the trenches and loads of rays in sully, hopefully just in time for you to get the renovations done jonnyswamp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyswamp Posted March 17, 2023 Author Share Posted March 17, 2023 2 hours ago, Saintly Fish said: Nice one Nick, but with no pics it could all just be a dream!! More of a nightmare for the first couple of hrs Saintly Fish 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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