KaiH
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With the bad weather over the last few days and no chance of catching squid in Torbay, I got out my beach rods for the first time since January.
I decided to head to Slapton as only half an hour away and wind blowing over the top. I arrived just after 6 and was going to fish for around 3 hours. Looked good and the swell was not too bad. The bait was squid wings of which I have a freezer full.
There was not a great deal of whiting activity which was good and it took 10-15 minutes to get a bite. I caught a dogfish and a couple of whiting before it got light and around 8 the whiting stopped feeding and I had a couple of bigger bites and a drop back that resulted in nothing. I cast straight back out after the drop back and within 30 seconds the rod was bending over and line being taken. I thought I had let the slack into the waves or hooked some seaweed but no a good fish on. Took around 5 minutes to get close enough for the wave to bring it up the beach. A decent smoothie.
About half an hour later the other rod had a drop back and when reeling in I assumed small whiting as no fight until it got close and became angry. This turned out to be a decent huss.
Overall 6 whiting, all keepers, 2 dogs, 1 smoothie and 1 huss. I wasn't expecting much so was pleasantly surprised.
I decided to head to Slapton as only half an hour away and wind blowing over the top. I arrived just after 6 and was going to fish for around 3 hours. Looked good and the swell was not too bad. The bait was squid wings of which I have a freezer full.
There was not a great deal of whiting activity which was good and it took 10-15 minutes to get a bite. I caught a dogfish and a couple of whiting before it got light and around 8 the whiting stopped feeding and I had a couple of bigger bites and a drop back that resulted in nothing. I cast straight back out after the drop back and within 30 seconds the rod was bending over and line being taken. I thought I had let the slack into the waves or hooked some seaweed but no a good fish on. Took around 5 minutes to get close enough for the wave to bring it up the beach. A decent smoothie.
About half an hour later the other rod had a drop back and when reeling in I assumed small whiting as no fight until it got close and became angry. This turned out to be a decent huss.
Overall 6 whiting, all keepers, 2 dogs, 1 smoothie and 1 huss. I wasn't expecting much so was pleasantly surprised.