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South West North Cornwall Coast

The Third Earl

The Third Earl

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Been here for a week now, and as I have not wet a line in the sea for so long, it was good to get onto the cliffs and drop a bait in, I only fish short stints , around 3 hours in the evening taking in the sun setting and a bit of darkness .
So, not fished every day, but so far have had Bass, Wrasse, Rockling , Mackies by the hookload and Doggies.... in fact a chap can only catch so many Doggies before the “fever “ sets in, so I am giving it a miss this evening, after about twenty a night of the greedy little beggars enough is enough..

I have another week here yet, so will certainly be getting out again, but as the rock mark is only a ten min walk from the cottage it will be getting a repeat visit or few.

One strange thing I have noticed, Sandeel , Mackerel, Squid, and Mussell wil all catch fish , but I cannot get a sniff on Blow Lug, I have found a good lug bed that is producing really big blows, and I thought my luck was in when I dug a bucket load, but the fish, any fish just wont look at it . At least is saves the effort of digging it.


Dave.
 
nice to be away and strange about the lug worm ...not even bass ?
 
Excellent report the lad and enjoy the rest of your time there?

I’m not even the tiniest bit envious?honest!!??
 
Mr Fish said:
Bass?! ?
Don’t let Minstrel see this! What sort of size were the bass and wrasse Dave?
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The Bass was insize, so went for tea, the bass took my favourite bass bait, sandeel, the Wrasse well, not so big, about to a pound n alf max, took Mussell, Rockling, took mackie strip, the dogs well, the dogs will take just about anything, but put a worm bait where the dogs were, they wouldnt touch it !

The mackerel, they took home made shiny things ?.

I was going to give it a miss tonight, but , well, my mate would like a few mackies, so will maybe chuck some shiny stuff around for an hour a bit later .TBH the Macs are a bit thin on the ground , had a half doz last night, but needed a lot of searching around whilst the sleeper rod was........ sleeping, as soon as the sun went down it came alive though.

Last year I was taking school Bass on the feathers , they were so numerous the macs could not get a look in , not so this year .

I will probably try floatfishing again when I go on Sunday, I like messing about with floats, I did a bit last night but something kept on nipping the sandeel in half , I tried a half dozen different ways of hooking them, didnt make any differerence.
That is the benefit of being so close to a mark, you ca try lots of different things, sort out what works for the next visit, knowing it will probably be withing 24 hrs.

Dave.
 
The Third Earl said:
Been here for a week now, and as I have not wet a line in the sea for so long, it was good to get onto the cliffs and drop a bait in, I only fish short stints , around 3 hours in the evening taking in the sun setting and a bit of darkness .
So, not fished every day, but so far have had Bass, Wrasse, Rockling , Mackies by the hookload and Doggies.... in fact a chap can only catch so many Doggies before the “fever “ sets in, so I am giving it a miss this evening, after about twenty a night of the greedy little beggars enough is enough..

I have another week here yet, so will certainly be getting out again, but as the rock mark is only a ten min walk from the cottage it will be getting a repeat visit or few.

One strange thing I have noticed, Sandeel , Mackerel, Squid, and Mussell wil all catch fish , but I cannot get a sniff on Blow Lug, I have found a good lug bed that is producing really big blows, and I thought my luck was in when I dug a bucket load, but the fish, any fish just wont look at it . At least is saves the effort of digging it.


Dave.
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Where you stopping this year Dave ?
 
Hi all ,back home again,Port Quinn very nice as always ,a great two weeks break, but sh! t weather for the whole 350 miles drive from hol cottage to home.Solid rain ! It did clean the salt from the car though so not all bad.

But, hols are better than work.

I have fished cliff marks and Padsta outer harbour , the cliff produced, the harbour did not, weather has been fine but quite cold, had some good walks , Bodmin Moor, coast paths, around Padstow, North Cornwall coast, Port Isaac, Bude etc, as usual.

Fishing, well, patchy at best, but who cares, ?

In 15 days will be up at Loch Etive , Scotland for more fishing holiday shenanigans. !

Retirement is not for sissies, bloody hard work!


Dave
 
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