cap'nhaddock
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A last minute decision, bored with never ending bank holidays I decided to see what was about under Boscombe Pier.
Hopes were not high as it has not been fishing at all well recently.
Plenty of squid and gar in the freezer and some salted rag so there was no need to detour for bait.
I started fishing at about 5:30pm, out of the wind and away from the usual cloud of cannabis smoke at the end.
There was a fair swell rolling through so grip weights were attached so that the line on the light rods could be tightened to try to remove the wave action 'bites'. Bait was frozen gar, a strip on each of size 4 or 2 hooks on my usual variation of a two hook Wessex rig.
I didn't have to wait long before there was a big bite on one of the flattie rods and I reeled in a nicely marked Undulate Ray number seven for the species hunt. After that there was a quiet period with no interest on either rod.
I baited up a scaled down Wessex Rig on a spinning rod with scraps of salted rag on size 8 hooks, put on a small watch lead and dropped it down close in to see what small stuff was about near the pier leg. After about 10 minutes a tentative bite developed, I left it for a while as I was chatting to a passer-by then it got more definite and I reeled in what looked like a Turbot in the water but turned out to be a Brill, number eight, not so common there as a Turbot but not a particularly rare catch.
The wind had dropped and the sea had quietened down so the leads were swapped over to smooth type and a shoal of pout turned up, three or four of those and a skinny whiting kept me amused.
There was some interest in the tiny hook/spinning rod which turned out to be a small Plaice, number nine. Salted rag certainly works.
It was getting towards the 10:30/11pm closing time and I was thinking of packing up, pleased enough with three new species when there was an enthusiastic bite on on of the flattie rods, a tiny Smoothhound pretending to be a biggy.
Number ten, a nice end to a pleasant session.
Hopes were not high as it has not been fishing at all well recently.
Plenty of squid and gar in the freezer and some salted rag so there was no need to detour for bait.
I started fishing at about 5:30pm, out of the wind and away from the usual cloud of cannabis smoke at the end.
There was a fair swell rolling through so grip weights were attached so that the line on the light rods could be tightened to try to remove the wave action 'bites'. Bait was frozen gar, a strip on each of size 4 or 2 hooks on my usual variation of a two hook Wessex rig.
I didn't have to wait long before there was a big bite on one of the flattie rods and I reeled in a nicely marked Undulate Ray number seven for the species hunt. After that there was a quiet period with no interest on either rod.
I baited up a scaled down Wessex Rig on a spinning rod with scraps of salted rag on size 8 hooks, put on a small watch lead and dropped it down close in to see what small stuff was about near the pier leg. After about 10 minutes a tentative bite developed, I left it for a while as I was chatting to a passer-by then it got more definite and I reeled in what looked like a Turbot in the water but turned out to be a Brill, number eight, not so common there as a Turbot but not a particularly rare catch.
The wind had dropped and the sea had quietened down so the leads were swapped over to smooth type and a shoal of pout turned up, three or four of those and a skinny whiting kept me amused.
There was some interest in the tiny hook/spinning rod which turned out to be a small Plaice, number nine. Salted rag certainly works.
It was getting towards the 10:30/11pm closing time and I was thinking of packing up, pleased enough with three new species when there was an enthusiastic bite on on of the flattie rods, a tiny Smoothhound pretending to be a biggy.
Number ten, a nice end to a pleasant session.
