dodders
Well-known member
- Joined
- May 11, 2021
- Messages
- 201
- Reaction score
- 1,049
- Points
- 93
- Location
- SE Cornwall
- Favourite Fishing
- Shore
Not been out fishing for ages so thought I’d best pull myself together and do something about it!
A chat with another angler last week spurred me into action and made me think about a mark I’ve earmarked for a while. Its not easy to get to so I had a quick recce a few days ago. Despite the half hour jungle warfare to reach it, the morons had still been there as revealed by a scattering of empty discarded feather packets and an abandoned disposable (ie leave it behind ) BBQ. I bagged them up and took them away along with the bin liner that someone had been good enough to leave (beer cans and feather/lure packets) at the top of the cliff.
I wanted a decent small-eyed ray and knew that one or two had been out lately, so I was armed with sandeels and squid. I soon found out that my casting had gone to pot and had a birds-nest to cut free and also lost a couple of rigs to snags. Having arrived at low water it was two hours later before I was fishing properly. The sandy patches were not quite where I had worked out they should be!
Half way through the flood I caught a couple of dogfish which cheered me up as at least it was something. That was it till darkness when I had a solid bite which then pulled a couple of yards off the ratchet. The fish felt solid and I was thinking this may be a ray until it started pulling back in an eel like way. Still happy and at least it wasn’t a bootlace weighing just over 6lbs.
I finished up with another 3 conger, all between 3-4lbs
Not the most exciting day’s fishing and a lot of effort but it was great to be back out again
A chat with another angler last week spurred me into action and made me think about a mark I’ve earmarked for a while. Its not easy to get to so I had a quick recce a few days ago. Despite the half hour jungle warfare to reach it, the morons had still been there as revealed by a scattering of empty discarded feather packets and an abandoned disposable (ie leave it behind ) BBQ. I bagged them up and took them away along with the bin liner that someone had been good enough to leave (beer cans and feather/lure packets) at the top of the cliff.
I wanted a decent small-eyed ray and knew that one or two had been out lately, so I was armed with sandeels and squid. I soon found out that my casting had gone to pot and had a birds-nest to cut free and also lost a couple of rigs to snags. Having arrived at low water it was two hours later before I was fishing properly. The sandy patches were not quite where I had worked out they should be!
Half way through the flood I caught a couple of dogfish which cheered me up as at least it was something. That was it till darkness when I had a solid bite which then pulled a couple of yards off the ratchet. The fish felt solid and I was thinking this may be a ray until it started pulling back in an eel like way. Still happy and at least it wasn’t a bootlace weighing just over 6lbs.
I finished up with another 3 conger, all between 3-4lbs
Not the most exciting day’s fishing and a lot of effort but it was great to be back out again
