Merlin 335
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As the Fylde coast hasn't been fishing well recently due to the weather, I decided this weekend to head over to the Mersey to try to catch some codling. The mark I fished was Eastham Slab, I had never fished there before. My plan was to arrive at 1am and to fish the flood up to high at 4.45am and about an hour of the ebb, but due to me being preoccupied with my playlist and trying to get Kasmir by Led Zepplin on, I missed the turning for the M56 ans stayed on the M6 south! When I arrived at the mark there were already 4 anglers there, so quickly picked the first corner mark and got my rods in as quickly as possible. On one rod I had a 2 hook loop rig with frozen black tipped with squid and on the other I had a short (about 2 foot) up & over with cart and squid wrapped.
I didn't have to wait long for my first bite and reeled in a 47com codling, this was caught on the squid and cart wrap. I rebaited with another wrap and soon afterwards had another bite, but the fish came off whilst reeling in. Over the next 3 hours, the squid & cart wrap accounted for 6 more codling ranging from 35cm to 45 cm, all cast to approx the same area. I only had a small whiting to the frozen black. I spoke to the lads fishing next to me towards the end of the session and they had not caught anything, but they had been using worm and squid as bait. As I was leaving at 5.30am, I gave them my left over cart and told them to fish my mark and where I had been casting to catch the codling - so I hope they managed to catch something as they had been there since 6pm!!
My journey home was uneventful, as I managed not to take any wrong turns and only listened to a Pink Floyd playlist!
I didn't have to wait long for my first bite and reeled in a 47com codling, this was caught on the squid and cart wrap. I rebaited with another wrap and soon afterwards had another bite, but the fish came off whilst reeling in. Over the next 3 hours, the squid & cart wrap accounted for 6 more codling ranging from 35cm to 45 cm, all cast to approx the same area. I only had a small whiting to the frozen black. I spoke to the lads fishing next to me towards the end of the session and they had not caught anything, but they had been using worm and squid as bait. As I was leaving at 5.30am, I gave them my left over cart and told them to fish my mark and where I had been casting to catch the codling - so I hope they managed to catch something as they had been there since 6pm!!
My journey home was uneventful, as I managed not to take any wrong turns and only listened to a Pink Floyd playlist!
