Tatunka joe
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Popped up here yesterday bit of a recce for up comeing comp wanted to try a few things out picked up some worm from Westbay teach me not to book it as it was terrible stuff all small and dying my bad ussaly good stuff from there .
I arrived to windy beach and took a decent hike right set up three rods targets where bream and gurnard and first cast a rattling bite indicated the first of my targets reeled into some weight and a decent little scrap and out popped a codling ?wasn’t expecting that but chuffed all the same only a 1 lb so few pics and off he went was expecting it to switch on but nothing for a few hrs apart from a few spider crabs then eventually a decent hit on my pop up resulting in a nice tub few hrs later after a Kip I had a nice red gurnard so happy with that as the tide changed on come the weed loads of it covering the hooks in mins not even the crabs were bothering the wind got up aswell so I knocked it on the head early right at the start of the flood which was annoying but hey ho not great but tiny tides spiders being sn arse and weed being a mare so a very slow start to my ferrybrige adventures but it will start picking up now and I predict a good year for the bream as early signs on the boats look very promising be back up soon hopefully next week on better tides altho I hope this weed buggers off I haven’t had a seeion on chisel this summer without it being a pain cheer ma butes
I arrived to windy beach and took a decent hike right set up three rods targets where bream and gurnard and first cast a rattling bite indicated the first of my targets reeled into some weight and a decent little scrap and out popped a codling ?wasn’t expecting that but chuffed all the same only a 1 lb so few pics and off he went was expecting it to switch on but nothing for a few hrs apart from a few spider crabs then eventually a decent hit on my pop up resulting in a nice tub few hrs later after a Kip I had a nice red gurnard so happy with that as the tide changed on come the weed loads of it covering the hooks in mins not even the crabs were bothering the wind got up aswell so I knocked it on the head early right at the start of the flood which was annoying but hey ho not great but tiny tides spiders being sn arse and weed being a mare so a very slow start to my ferrybrige adventures but it will start picking up now and I predict a good year for the bream as early signs on the boats look very promising be back up soon hopefully next week on better tides altho I hope this weed buggers off I haven’t had a seeion on chisel this summer without it being a pain cheer ma butes