cap'nhaddock
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Firstly on Sunday afternoon to West Bay where PhilR had bagged up a few days before.
Everything looked good, the inflow of freshwater with its load of weed and leaves had stopped and the water was clear and calm,
and fishless.
Four hours without as much as a crab.
What a difference a few days can make. I realise that I fished in daylight whereas PhilR fished in the dark but I have caught loads of fish there in daylight in the past; it's all very odd.
Next, on Tuesday, off to Boscombe Pier to hunt one of the eleven flat things* that are regularly caught there. I fished a rising tide, there was nothing at all in daylight and very little after dark, a typical bite, one whack and then nothing signalled a turbot, the first flatfish of the year.
For anyone unsure if they've caught a Turbot or a Brill, they look much the same, run your hand over the back, the Brill is smooth, the Turbot has little lumps all over it, you can see where the light highlights some of them.
I had just one more bite and one more fish after that, a whiting, it's time to go home when they turn up.
Next, Thursday, a return to West Bay, fishing a rising tide an hour of daylight then into dark. It looked as if rain was coming in from the west but the wind had changed to the north so it skirted by, raining on Lyme Regis instead of me.
Plenty of Five Bearded Rockling, they were in plague numbers including three at a time on two hooks.
Plenty of them and Pout to keep the rod tips going.
In between the Pout and Rockling a Plaice showed up and a fish bait cast out close the rocks found, not the Dogfish expected, but a fat Flounder, the first of two from that patch.
In all the score was eight Pout, one Plaice, nine Rockling and two Flounder, not bad for four hours fishing.
A look at the weather radar app showed rain moving in so I packed up and went, if I had remembered my food I might have stayed, fishing in the rain yes, when hungry and rain, no.
* Flounder, Plaice, Sole, Brill, Turbot, Dab and Undulate, Small Eyed, Spotted, Blonde and Thornback Rays.
Everything looked good, the inflow of freshwater with its load of weed and leaves had stopped and the water was clear and calm,
and fishless.
Four hours without as much as a crab.
What a difference a few days can make. I realise that I fished in daylight whereas PhilR fished in the dark but I have caught loads of fish there in daylight in the past; it's all very odd.
Next, on Tuesday, off to Boscombe Pier to hunt one of the eleven flat things* that are regularly caught there. I fished a rising tide, there was nothing at all in daylight and very little after dark, a typical bite, one whack and then nothing signalled a turbot, the first flatfish of the year.
For anyone unsure if they've caught a Turbot or a Brill, they look much the same, run your hand over the back, the Brill is smooth, the Turbot has little lumps all over it, you can see where the light highlights some of them.
I had just one more bite and one more fish after that, a whiting, it's time to go home when they turn up.
Next, Thursday, a return to West Bay, fishing a rising tide an hour of daylight then into dark. It looked as if rain was coming in from the west but the wind had changed to the north so it skirted by, raining on Lyme Regis instead of me.
Plenty of Five Bearded Rockling, they were in plague numbers including three at a time on two hooks.
Plenty of them and Pout to keep the rod tips going.
In between the Pout and Rockling a Plaice showed up and a fish bait cast out close the rocks found, not the Dogfish expected, but a fat Flounder, the first of two from that patch.
In all the score was eight Pout, one Plaice, nine Rockling and two Flounder, not bad for four hours fishing.
A look at the weather radar app showed rain moving in so I packed up and went, if I had remembered my food I might have stayed, fishing in the rain yes, when hungry and rain, no.
* Flounder, Plaice, Sole, Brill, Turbot, Dab and Undulate, Small Eyed, Spotted, Blonde and Thornback Rays.
