Long Rod
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So I was planning to do a night session on Thursday (18 May) but due to unforeseen circumstances had to do a day session (19 May) instead. Arrived about 7.30 am, set up and was fishing by about 8 am. High tide was about midday. Fished 2 rods with pulley rigs, one with a 2/0 and the other with a 4/0, hoping for roker and / or bass. O.K., perhaps a little optimistic! Bait was to be squid, bluey and frozen black lug. Weather forecast to be dry and sunny (it was) and wind north easterly 10 – 16 mph (in fact slightly higher). Had been fishing about 10 minutes when I had a knock on one rod and reeled in a dogfish. As I turned to walk back “to base” I saw a dog, being walked off lead, mooching around my bait (and a very sharp unsheathed bait knife). I shooed it away but to no avail. It managed to eat all my bluey before I got near it and it backed away. The female owner approached, didn’t seem too bothered, more or less admitted that “he does that sort of thing” and when I commented that her dog had eaten all my fish bait, leaving me short, she simply said “well it’s done now” and walked off. She didn’t even apologise. I wasn’t best pleased. Anyway, with care, and going down to 1 rod after a while, I managed to fish until about 2 pm. In all I had 9 dogfish and a smoothound “pup”. I can laugh about it now.