Popular Post jonnyswamp Posted December 19, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 19, 2020 With rumours of another lockdown, possibly on the 17th, work was ditched and bait was bought. The forecast wasn't good, but being a Southerly wind meant we could find a bit of respite on the English side We shared the 7.30 am lock with just one other boat and no sooner had we tied up, the gates swung open and out we went Steamed up on the last of the flood through a very choppy sea, giving the roof and windows a good wash in the process and arrived at Ladye Bay on what should have been slack high water. The tide should have turned by about 8/8.30, but wind had other ideas and we were still facing down channel until 9.30 ish when we spun and could then start fishing properly We were anchored a few hundred yards from a charter who Mark, my crew for the day, uses regularly. A quick phone call revealed they hadn't had so much as a twitch on any of the 10 rods on board and were probably going back to Penarth on the Coral They moved soon after while we stuck it out and did a bit of gardening untill the weed got too much of a pain and we upped and made the journey back to Cardiff through some snotty wind against tide seas, with just 1 lazy Thornie of around 8/10lb who thought it was a lump of weed for our troubles Turned the wipers off and dropped the pick uptide of a gully just south of the Cardiff mid buoy and waited, and waited, and waited 3 more smallish Thornbacks and 1 bootlace down to slack water at this mark, so with the first 2 hrs of the flood usually being productive, we moved to a mark slightly further North at the top of a long sand bank Being a fairly big tide and bang on low water this journey was a methodical one, as a lot of the smaller sand banks aren't in the position the charts say they are and we were down to 3ft a few times where the charts showed at least 16/18ft We were again a few hundred yards off the charter, Tuskar 2 who had struggled to find any decent fish and with one of his crew severely seasick (and had been all day) crept passed us and locked in early We stuck it out until 4.50pm without so much as a bite between us, so pulled the pin and caught the 5.15 lock back in.......Codless The locks are still open as I type this, so Tuesday 22nd is my next planned excursion, a smaller tide and flatter conditions which will allow us to get up towards Portishead and scout out some new (to me) grounds Hopefully Geoff, thejollysinker, Scotch_Egg2012 and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicky Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Good effort. It does seem hard out there this week with only a handful of cod and the rays and conger absent, i'm sure they'll be back soon though. jonnyswamp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Head up to the English Welsh over low, head up East towards Portishead coral over high once you get some more water 🙂 jonnyswamp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Well done for getting out. 👍 jonnyswamp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Unlucky. Good effort though. jonnyswamp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 Well done on getting out, it is a shame the Cod didn't read the script ! We have not been able to get out off the South Devon coast for a while now ........ way too much East in the wind ! jonnyswamp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyswamp Posted December 20, 2020 Author Share Posted December 20, 2020 Tuesday aint happening now 😭 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 Just now, jonnyswamp said: Tuesday aint happening now 😭 Have Tuesdays been done away with? 6 day week? I would have got rid of Monday’s if it was my choice. Andy135 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyswamp Posted December 20, 2020 Author Share Posted December 20, 2020 22 minutes ago, JonC said: Have Tuesdays been done away with? 6 day week? I would have got rid of Monday’s if it was my choice. No, they're still about, but the locks have covid and will be shut, which means I'll have to go to work now I usually have a pint or 2 on a Monday (way back when the pubs were open) so quite like them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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