Popular Post Andy135 Posted June 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted June 23, 2023 @Saintly Fish was kind enough to offer me a trip out on Tarlach Too today. The plan was to hit low water slack at a shallow mark near Lymington for stingrays and gilthead bream, so we set off at early o'clock to grab the tail end of the ebb. As we headed west we were greeted by a large flock of gulls working the water dead ahead of us. It would have been rude not to stop and see if we could bust the blank early doors. So with some feathers hastily tied on we were both soon into mackerel, and even a bonus school bass for me. With 10 or so mackerel in the bucket we headed further west and soon dropped the anchor on our mark. Didn't take long for the bites to start. Small black bream were nibbling our worm baits but the baits lasted long enough for Neil to hook into a decent stingray. During the fight it even managed to flap clear of the water - who knew stingrays could fly?? Not content to rest on his laurels, soon after he hauls up a lovely gilthead bream which went to 2lb on the scales. I'll leave it to him to post some pics of his catches. As the tide flooded the weed became unmanageable, so we pushed out into the navigation channel where smoothounds were the target. Skipper did good and put us on the fish. Again, I'll leave Neil to post up some pics of his hounds, but suffice to say he caught more of them, and they were bigger! 🤣 I also managed a nice little black bream from this mark, on a 1/0 hook intended for dogfish. As the time ticked on we decided to move closer to home and stop off at another shallow mark to see if we could find any more giltheads. I managed to find a productive method by casting sideways and letting my ragworm and ball weight trundle around in the tide. A fair-sized schoolie bass and several bream fell to this technique. Neil managed another couple of good smoothounds here to round off the day. Six species from three marks in six hours of fishing. Quality sunshine, quality giggles and quality skippering. Got to hand it to him, @Saintly Fish did good today - thanks mate, it was a brilliant session! jonnyswamp, Geoff, Sailfish and 7 others 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daio web Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 great report mate nice fishing Andy135 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 I'm not going to go on about who caught the most, biggest and best, Andy has already eluded to this. So I'll just say that we had a great day out, Andy's always good company. I'm just glad he managed to close the gap in the end. Not completely but he tried. JDP, Geoff, Dicky and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike farrants Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 Looks like a fab day out! Gilts and stingers wow! Awesome! Well done both! And not one dogfish pic (phew!) Andy135 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted June 23, 2023 Author Share Posted June 23, 2023 8 minutes ago, mike farrants said: Looks like a fab day out! Gilts and stingers wow! Awesome! Well done both! And not one dogfish pic (phew!) Yeah, I threw the book at them but they just weren't playing. In retrospect it was a bit of a shit session really... #whatnodogs?? Saintly Fish and mike farrants 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 Well done on the fishing and using a sling to weight fish Andy135 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 Nice report on what sounds like a great day out, thanks for sharing. I hope you will be doing some overtime at work next week to make up for the day off? Andy135 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 12 minutes ago, Maverick said: Nice report on what sounds like a great day out, thanks for sharing. I hope you will be doing some overtime at work next week to make up for the day off? Yes for that one, but not the others through June! 😁 Maverick 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejollysinker Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 Cracking day out guys, well done 👌🙂 Saintly Fish and Andy135 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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