Goateeblank
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I was going to fish after hours on Swanage Pier, but the wind looked bad and the weed reports pretty dire. Not much good for float fishing or bottom fishing in those conditions and its a 3 hour round trip for me. The company there is good though and one of the guys that comes over works at the chip shop and brings chippy treats!
I had worms left from a pretty fruitless stinger trip with @DJDBazzer, but it was a good catch up with him and my first cast caught a swan! Yeah a bloody swan. I was baiting my second rod and the first one was pulling like mad. When l saw the swan, my heart sank. The last thing any of us want, is to be dealing with is a swan. Luckily the line snapped, leaving me even more bothered it was still tangled, but it paddled off and later my gear came in with a load of weed.
The decision was made by Haddock, on the assurance I would not moan if the fishing was poor! To fish Poole Quay. The air display was on at Bournemouth, but the traffic was ok. Set up with a tiny size 20 hook and snippet of worm on one rod and a little species rig with size 6 hooks on the other. The main target was a 2 spot goby.
First in was a sand goby, much to Haddocks annoyance as he needs one. I had 3 in total!
This was followed by a black goby, then a very nice example of a rock goby. Looks like a little crown on it.
Had a lovely little green ballan wrasse.
Followed by a drab, but better size one. This was while the Spitfire, followed by a Hurricane and a Lancaster were circling overhead.
Put some small sabikis on for a sand smelt or herring or pilchard and got several sand smelt.
There were lots of tiny bass and Haddock was plagued with pollack so I dropped down in his space and had one in seconds.
I dropped into a little corner and caught 2 x black goby, but on 1 x size 20 hook. I tried to work out how, but 1 fell off so I will never know.
Also had corkwing wrasse and black bream and tompot blenny.
There was a low point to the day. This was best summed up by a voice from one of the hoards of people around saying. " Look, that man has caught a seagull!". After the swan this was worse, as I had to reel it in and it was one of those big stupid juvenile gulls and it was in full peck mode! We tried to get a cloth over its head, but it was having non of it. I cut the line and it was away no problem. Bloody nightmare though.
We were treated by the red arrows passing over minus 1 plane, as it had to drop out with weird engine management messages. Probably sucked my stupid seagull into its engine!
Species caught x 10 as follows, and lots of them, but no new ones for my hunt. Haddock had similar.
Sand Goby.
Black goby.
Ballan wrasse.
Rock goby.
Sand smelt.
Bass.
Pollack.
Corkwing wrasse,
Black bream.
Tompot blenny.
Good luck if you are out. Back on the spotted rays again now.
I had worms left from a pretty fruitless stinger trip with @DJDBazzer, but it was a good catch up with him and my first cast caught a swan! Yeah a bloody swan. I was baiting my second rod and the first one was pulling like mad. When l saw the swan, my heart sank. The last thing any of us want, is to be dealing with is a swan. Luckily the line snapped, leaving me even more bothered it was still tangled, but it paddled off and later my gear came in with a load of weed.
The decision was made by Haddock, on the assurance I would not moan if the fishing was poor! To fish Poole Quay. The air display was on at Bournemouth, but the traffic was ok. Set up with a tiny size 20 hook and snippet of worm on one rod and a little species rig with size 6 hooks on the other. The main target was a 2 spot goby.
First in was a sand goby, much to Haddocks annoyance as he needs one. I had 3 in total!
This was followed by a black goby, then a very nice example of a rock goby. Looks like a little crown on it.
Had a lovely little green ballan wrasse.
Followed by a drab, but better size one. This was while the Spitfire, followed by a Hurricane and a Lancaster were circling overhead.
Put some small sabikis on for a sand smelt or herring or pilchard and got several sand smelt.
There were lots of tiny bass and Haddock was plagued with pollack so I dropped down in his space and had one in seconds.
I dropped into a little corner and caught 2 x black goby, but on 1 x size 20 hook. I tried to work out how, but 1 fell off so I will never know.
Also had corkwing wrasse and black bream and tompot blenny.
There was a low point to the day. This was best summed up by a voice from one of the hoards of people around saying. " Look, that man has caught a seagull!". After the swan this was worse, as I had to reel it in and it was one of those big stupid juvenile gulls and it was in full peck mode! We tried to get a cloth over its head, but it was having non of it. I cut the line and it was away no problem. Bloody nightmare though.
We were treated by the red arrows passing over minus 1 plane, as it had to drop out with weird engine management messages. Probably sucked my stupid seagull into its engine!
Species caught x 10 as follows, and lots of them, but no new ones for my hunt. Haddock had similar.
Sand Goby.
Black goby.
Ballan wrasse.
Rock goby.
Sand smelt.
Bass.
Pollack.
Corkwing wrasse,
Black bream.
Tompot blenny.
Good luck if you are out. Back on the spotted rays again now.
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