Popular Post mike farrants Posted June 23, 2023 Popular Post Posted June 23, 2023 Me Tim and Phil out on Seadog - all set for a lovely day - warm sunshine and flat calm seas - could it get any better? it did - best days fishing for a long time! Started off by finding mackerel on the way out - drove over a bait ball and bagged up a tough tub full of fresh mackerel - took the chance to fill the freezer too - must have had over 50 mackerel between 3 of us in 30 mins. Off to the mark filled with optimism - now this mark throws up all sorts of fish and today didn't disappoint - 12 species and 2 PBs to the boat from the same spot. dropped anchor and it was fish from the off. Tim had a lovely red, and a good run of bream, dogs, smoothies and conger, even managed a Pollock I had a lovely bull huss, and the usual bream, dogs and conger, I had a lovely little spotted ray followed by a huge pull down, taking line and fighting all the way to the surface, up came my PB Blonde ray - 13lb - an absolute blanket of a blonde ray! Phil was having a slower day than us two - just thornies, dogs and congers on big baits but he couldn't connect to the bream on the small stuff - while me and Tim carried on bringing them to the boat. odd. so phil switched back to the big baits and then he got his bream a decent size one too - on a 6.0 hook on a strip of mackerel! as tim was dropping his bream rig down he was getting hit by mackerel right under the boat - so we had some more fun with the feathers between bites - (maybe they were sheltering under the boat - but they were literally at our feet!) Tim was reeling in a bream and suddenly we saw it getting followed by a tope - Tim left it in the water to see if the tope would attack it - but must have ben spooked - one hook was bitten off but not the fish. so now came a plan - within 30 seconds i grabbed the feathers and pulled out a live mackerel to send down for the tope.... rod in the rod rest and left with the ratchet on...... in the mean time we carried on fishing - low and behold Phil gets a bite, says it feels different (slack line, head shakes, swims uptide) - bang - Tope to the surface - sadly though it snaps off at the surface - bitten through 100lb trace. would have been his first too! not to be outdone though - phil gets the last bite of the day and when it hits the surface i drop everything and grab the net - BASS - Phil's PB at 4lb what a day! - 12 species (at least - may have missed a or 2) Mackerel, Bream, pollock, Bull huss, LSD, Conger, Thornies, Spotted ray, Blonde ray, Smoothound, Tope, Red Gurnard, plus we took home 40 mackerel for the freezer between us - the bream that was intended for the BBQ got relegated tot he freezer as soon as the bass surfaced - dinner sorted! home bound via the pub for a quick one and a reflection on the best days fishing this year so far! PS note to self - remember to reel in the live bait before heading off to pull the anchor - we had to abort pulling the anchor as the ratchet was screaming! 🙂 thejollysinker, Geoff, jonnyswamp and 3 others 5 1 Quote
Odyssey Posted June 23, 2023 Posted June 23, 2023 Cracking report 🙂 sounds like a great session 🙂 Quote
Andy135 Posted June 23, 2023 Posted June 23, 2023 Top effort there! Well done to all. Very good session 👍 Quote
thejollysinker Posted June 23, 2023 Posted June 23, 2023 Top notch fishing right there 👌 going out tomorrow trying a different spot or two 🤞 Quote
daio web Posted June 23, 2023 Posted June 23, 2023 top dangling mike ang others great report again bud keep it up 😎 Quote
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