Merlin 335
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After the strong Southwesterlys we have had over the last couple of days, I saw that the wind was dropping down and that meant an opportunity for some codling, but I would have to endure another silly o'clock session for low water at 4.15am. I arrived at Rossall promanade car park for 1.40am and managed to get my rods in the water for about 2.15am. I had made 8 cart/squid wraps at home earlier that morning and placed them in a flask in the freezer ready for the session, as I was going to fish one rod with the cart/squid wraps and the other with frozen black & squid.
I didn't have a bite in the first 30 minutes, so reeled in and changed the baits on both rods, shortly afterwards had a great bite on the cart/squid bait and in came a 50cm codling. Nothing happened then for the next hour and half, but on low water another codling fell to the cart/squid wraps. This one was a lot smaller, so I didn't bother measuring it (probably about 30cm).
I was only going to fish the flooding tide for an hour, as my 15 year old son has got himself a Christmas job this week working at the "Ye Olde Pastie Shoppe" and I promised to take him to work whilst I was off this week so he didn't have to catch two buses to get there for 8am (he still hasn't brought me a pastie/pie home yet!!).
About 40 minutes after low I had a great pull down on the cart/squid rod and brought in a 51cm codling. I decided to call it quits then and started packing up.
I returned all the codling, as I had kept 3 from my last session, but for a quick 3 hour session I was made up with the 3 codling.
I was very surprised not to have caught any whiting on the frozen blacks, but grateful not to be bothered by them. In two sessions in 5 days, I have had 10 codling all to cart/squid wraps and 1 whiting to frozen blacks. Nice way to finish fishing before Christmas.
I didn't have a bite in the first 30 minutes, so reeled in and changed the baits on both rods, shortly afterwards had a great bite on the cart/squid bait and in came a 50cm codling. Nothing happened then for the next hour and half, but on low water another codling fell to the cart/squid wraps. This one was a lot smaller, so I didn't bother measuring it (probably about 30cm).
I was only going to fish the flooding tide for an hour, as my 15 year old son has got himself a Christmas job this week working at the "Ye Olde Pastie Shoppe" and I promised to take him to work whilst I was off this week so he didn't have to catch two buses to get there for 8am (he still hasn't brought me a pastie/pie home yet!!).
About 40 minutes after low I had a great pull down on the cart/squid rod and brought in a 51cm codling. I decided to call it quits then and started packing up.
I returned all the codling, as I had kept 3 from my last session, but for a quick 3 hour session I was made up with the 3 codling.
I was very surprised not to have caught any whiting on the frozen blacks, but grateful not to be bothered by them. In two sessions in 5 days, I have had 10 codling all to cart/squid wraps and 1 whiting to frozen blacks. Nice way to finish fishing before Christmas.
