Kevin3110
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Back on the bait last night, left the multi rods and reels opting for the lighter approach using my 4.5M Leeda Icon FS Sport and Ultegra. Rig was an up & over, 105g of bucket shaped lead armed with crab ? and prawn ?.
It was bites from the off on both crab and prawn baits but unfortunately no fish for the initial efforts.
Eventually, under the cover of darkness and an hour into the flood the first hound was landed.
It was swiftly followed on the very next cast by the biggest of the night around the 4lb mark. Cracking sport on the lighter tackle too the hounds are.
Shortly after and with the flood getting to the point of pushing me off this particular mark hound no3 for the night was landed.
I decided at this point it would be wise to move, off the bank and across the gulley which now had around 2 1/2ft of water in it but filling quite quickly. Rather than pack up I decided to use the last of the bait and give it another hour. Now, the inner bass angler is never too far away and having noticed some movement in the shallows my last 3 casts where only put out around 20yds. Last cast and last crab I get a cracking knock, thinking it was silver I was very surprised when a small hound appeared. Probably not much more than 12” in length, perfection in miniature?.
I spent the next 5min if not more watching it effortlessly mooching around the shallows, quite relaxing and therapeutic really, recording a little to show my lad Callum this morning before school.
Probably back to the plastic chucking next week if tides and weather play nice.
It was bites from the off on both crab and prawn baits but unfortunately no fish for the initial efforts.
Eventually, under the cover of darkness and an hour into the flood the first hound was landed.
It was swiftly followed on the very next cast by the biggest of the night around the 4lb mark. Cracking sport on the lighter tackle too the hounds are.
Shortly after and with the flood getting to the point of pushing me off this particular mark hound no3 for the night was landed.
I decided at this point it would be wise to move, off the bank and across the gulley which now had around 2 1/2ft of water in it but filling quite quickly. Rather than pack up I decided to use the last of the bait and give it another hour. Now, the inner bass angler is never too far away and having noticed some movement in the shallows my last 3 casts where only put out around 20yds. Last cast and last crab I get a cracking knock, thinking it was silver I was very surprised when a small hound appeared. Probably not much more than 12” in length, perfection in miniature?.
I spent the next 5min if not more watching it effortlessly mooching around the shallows, quite relaxing and therapeutic really, recording a little to show my lad Callum this morning before school.
Probably back to the plastic chucking next week if tides and weather play nice.
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