Plaicehunter
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- Lure
...to get your string pulled by a big fish!
The Tamar is famed for heavy conger, and two came my way in a four-hour uptiding session this morning, just downstream from the Torpoint ferries.
I fished three rods: a downtider with a legered live pout, a light uptider with two-hook flapper for whiting and a heavier uptider with a whole squid or a whole joey mackerel for bigger fish.
I'd caught some decent whiting and a 10lb conger when I pulled in the big rod to find the head and shoulders of a near-2lb whiting. An eel had beaten me to it!
The next whiting was a lovely sample at 1-11, but the next fish dwarfed it. A classic drop-back bite on the big rod saw me wind down and lift into a powerful fish which gave me a real workout in a fast ebb tide.
My attempt to film the scrap on my phone proved how hard it is play an angry 6ft eel with one hand!
Eventually I dragged it alongside and T-barred it off, as like the first eel it was lip-hooked.
The next bite came on the whiting rod, and I hoped the thumping fight would turn into my second cod of the winter; it was a 5lb eel, neatly lip-hooked.
Packing up was nearly complete when the big rod dropped back again and I found myself playing another big eel, which fought hard with crash-dives, vicious head-shakes and high-speed spinning. This one had to be cut free , as only the top hook of the pennell was visible.
You don't have to steam over the horizon to enjoy exciting sport! PH
The Tamar is famed for heavy conger, and two came my way in a four-hour uptiding session this morning, just downstream from the Torpoint ferries.
I fished three rods: a downtider with a legered live pout, a light uptider with two-hook flapper for whiting and a heavier uptider with a whole squid or a whole joey mackerel for bigger fish.
I'd caught some decent whiting and a 10lb conger when I pulled in the big rod to find the head and shoulders of a near-2lb whiting. An eel had beaten me to it!
The next whiting was a lovely sample at 1-11, but the next fish dwarfed it. A classic drop-back bite on the big rod saw me wind down and lift into a powerful fish which gave me a real workout in a fast ebb tide.
My attempt to film the scrap on my phone proved how hard it is play an angry 6ft eel with one hand!
Eventually I dragged it alongside and T-barred it off, as like the first eel it was lip-hooked.
The next bite came on the whiting rod, and I hoped the thumping fight would turn into my second cod of the winter; it was a 5lb eel, neatly lip-hooked.
Packing up was nearly complete when the big rod dropped back again and I found myself playing another big eel, which fought hard with crash-dives, vicious head-shakes and high-speed spinning. This one had to be cut free , as only the top hook of the pennell was visible.
You don't have to steam over the horizon to enjoy exciting sport! PH
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