Mr Fish
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After spending most of the day hovering over my poorly pussy cat and agonising that he won’t eat the special (for special, read ‘tastes like crap’) food the vets want him on, I decided a few more hours wrassing might take my mind off things.
Low tide was 4pm and rather than go to the mark I fished yesterday, I thought I’d travel a bit further and try the mark where I had the two pounder the other week.
It’s a fair old hike down there and then lots of clambering over dodgy boulders - the Snowbee Rockhoppers earned their keep today.
But then they always do, although the neoprene leaves my feet smelling like a cheese mated with a zombie.
Anyhoo, only took five spider crab and when I got there, realised I’d somehow put one back in the freezer and taken an extra bag of legs instead ?
So thought it had better be one rod to conserve bait.
First cast instantly produced a rattling bite. Oh dear, I’ve got a good idea what this is…
Thankfully the slimy git lost interest.
Second cast saw a screamer of a bite and something powerful on that soon dropped off ?
However the trace was twisted to feck. Hmm. ?
If you’re squeamish, look away now…
Rods are just tools to me, and these are my rock rods for short range stuff.
Don’t worry, pretty sure they’re not Zziplex, but it tickles me to chuck the name around on rocks.
Bought the pair for £80 and I think the guy that owned them had delusions of grandeur and had basic rods rebuilt to look like Zzipys so he looked flash on the local pier, which I understand from the shop that sold them is where he always fished.
I bought them as two shortish cheap rods that I didn’t mind knocking about on rocks.
ANYWAY… as low approached I realised something crucial - the tide was a bit big for the high spot I was on, and for the moment I’d basically run out of water, as it wouldn’t really be possible to land a fish.
So had to wait about half hour before I could fish again.
This gives you an idea of the rocks, although this was half hour after low and they were starting to cover again. What you can’t see is there was barely any water at my feet to steer a fish through.
This was proved a few minutes later when the rod screamed off and what at first seemed a promising fish turned out to be a strap.
I had to hand line it up as the rod wouldn’t take it, but eventually I had my ‘prize’ ?
Bloody things ?
Shortly after I had an even smaller one.
Tide was flooding and I was getting knocks and rattles that looked like more eel bites.
Short story long, no more fish and I packed up a little earlier than I could have as I wanted to get back and see how the cat was doing.
I’ll leave you with a bit of bait porn - prime spider and a brilliant wrasse bait…
This is my wrasse rig, just a three way swivel, 20lb rotten bottom and 30lb trace to a 3/0.
Quick, easy and minimal components.
Anyway, today, lightning didn’t strike twice!
On the plus side, the cat seemed livelier when I got back and he’s eaten well this evening and is now kipping.
Low tide was 4pm and rather than go to the mark I fished yesterday, I thought I’d travel a bit further and try the mark where I had the two pounder the other week.
It’s a fair old hike down there and then lots of clambering over dodgy boulders - the Snowbee Rockhoppers earned their keep today.
But then they always do, although the neoprene leaves my feet smelling like a cheese mated with a zombie.
Anyhoo, only took five spider crab and when I got there, realised I’d somehow put one back in the freezer and taken an extra bag of legs instead ?
So thought it had better be one rod to conserve bait.
First cast instantly produced a rattling bite. Oh dear, I’ve got a good idea what this is…
Thankfully the slimy git lost interest.
Second cast saw a screamer of a bite and something powerful on that soon dropped off ?
However the trace was twisted to feck. Hmm. ?
If you’re squeamish, look away now…
Rods are just tools to me, and these are my rock rods for short range stuff.
Don’t worry, pretty sure they’re not Zziplex, but it tickles me to chuck the name around on rocks.
Bought the pair for £80 and I think the guy that owned them had delusions of grandeur and had basic rods rebuilt to look like Zzipys so he looked flash on the local pier, which I understand from the shop that sold them is where he always fished.
I bought them as two shortish cheap rods that I didn’t mind knocking about on rocks.
ANYWAY… as low approached I realised something crucial - the tide was a bit big for the high spot I was on, and for the moment I’d basically run out of water, as it wouldn’t really be possible to land a fish.
So had to wait about half hour before I could fish again.
This gives you an idea of the rocks, although this was half hour after low and they were starting to cover again. What you can’t see is there was barely any water at my feet to steer a fish through.
This was proved a few minutes later when the rod screamed off and what at first seemed a promising fish turned out to be a strap.
I had to hand line it up as the rod wouldn’t take it, but eventually I had my ‘prize’ ?
Bloody things ?
Shortly after I had an even smaller one.
Tide was flooding and I was getting knocks and rattles that looked like more eel bites.
Short story long, no more fish and I packed up a little earlier than I could have as I wanted to get back and see how the cat was doing.
I’ll leave you with a bit of bait porn - prime spider and a brilliant wrasse bait…
This is my wrasse rig, just a three way swivel, 20lb rotten bottom and 30lb trace to a 3/0.
Quick, easy and minimal components.
Anyway, today, lightning didn’t strike twice!
On the plus side, the cat seemed livelier when I got back and he’s eaten well this evening and is now kipping.
