Si-fly
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I've not been over to Minehead for ages, so with time on my hands yesterday I decided to skip the low and do an easy high session.
I also managed to talk a mate into coming for a bit of company..... He also had more diesel than me ??
Anyway was nice to get back over there on a nice evening, and find the beach basically empty, bar a holiday angler float fishing ?
Have to try that one day I guess over there. ?. At least it wasn't feathers!
Out went a mixture of squid, eel, and bluey, with the target being rays.
We both normally fish the same spot, so I went further along for a change fishing more tide. I hoped it would be OK as it was not the biggest tide.
I was in first with a little female spotted ?
a lovely looking fish.
My mate then had a baby tope, followed by a nice male spotted for me.
Then a 2nd tope for him, before I hook something which felt a bit better.
Not massive, but I hoped it was a SE, another target of the night.
Unfortunately giving it a bit of pressure to get it away from a snag, the hooks pulled ?
The tide then started to ebb, and my bites dried up!.... More tide than I wanted, and the reason I normally prefer the other spot ?
My mate then had 2 spotted rays, and then something much better. It was coming straight in and not kiting like a better ray, so thought poss eel.
He wasn't sure though as just felt odd he said.
Turned out to be target no2 a blonde ray of 13lb....lucky bugger.... Think ill go solo next time ?
I then had a dog, something for a species hunt so OK I guess.
Time for a move for me so I went down tide of my mate in to slacker water.
Still no bites and time was running out, when mate had a small huss.
Click click click...... Ah a bite!..... Nothing big but target no3 a little SE..
Now it was nearly time to go!... Then another run... Slack.... Then just as I was about to lift into whatever it was... It stopped moving!!..... 2nd time that had happened. I left it 5 mins but nothing was there.
Time to go and a few more species for a hunt.
Cheers si.
I also managed to talk a mate into coming for a bit of company..... He also had more diesel than me ??
Anyway was nice to get back over there on a nice evening, and find the beach basically empty, bar a holiday angler float fishing ?
Have to try that one day I guess over there. ?. At least it wasn't feathers!
Out went a mixture of squid, eel, and bluey, with the target being rays.
We both normally fish the same spot, so I went further along for a change fishing more tide. I hoped it would be OK as it was not the biggest tide.
I was in first with a little female spotted ?
a lovely looking fish.
My mate then had a baby tope, followed by a nice male spotted for me.
Then a 2nd tope for him, before I hook something which felt a bit better.
Not massive, but I hoped it was a SE, another target of the night.
Unfortunately giving it a bit of pressure to get it away from a snag, the hooks pulled ?
The tide then started to ebb, and my bites dried up!.... More tide than I wanted, and the reason I normally prefer the other spot ?
My mate then had 2 spotted rays, and then something much better. It was coming straight in and not kiting like a better ray, so thought poss eel.
He wasn't sure though as just felt odd he said.
Turned out to be target no2 a blonde ray of 13lb....lucky bugger.... Think ill go solo next time ?
I then had a dog, something for a species hunt so OK I guess.
Time for a move for me so I went down tide of my mate in to slacker water.
Still no bites and time was running out, when mate had a small huss.
Click click click...... Ah a bite!..... Nothing big but target no3 a little SE..
Now it was nearly time to go!... Then another run... Slack.... Then just as I was about to lift into whatever it was... It stopped moving!!..... 2nd time that had happened. I left it 5 mins but nothing was there.
Time to go and a few more species for a hunt.
Cheers si.
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