RaM
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- Oct 14, 2020
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I fished the pier last night into darkness two hours up and three hours down 3pm to 7pm, not the best tide at 3.4m.
Theres been a run of codling on the Calcton and Holland on sea beaches for about a week so I was feeling slightly more optimistic than usual.
The first chuck produced a nice little dab on my three hook flapper rod which was baited with lug and rag, this also produced a steady stream of whithing two nice sizeable ones.
The other rod had a four foot pully pennel with squis and blacks to target the codling but only seemed to catch small dogfish until two hour after high water then there was a big pull down with a drop back and out came my first decent codling for years, I quickly baited up and sent the lead out again to immediatly get the same result but slightly smaller.. buzzing I stayed for another hour only cathching more whiting.
Not a bad session with around twenty whiting, one dab and three doggies and of course the all important codling.
Both Codling when to 45cm and weighed 2.2lb which from the other pics I have seen seems to be about the average.
Hopefully this will continue every year now.
The codling went back for you lot to catch if you manage to do so can you please do the same so my grandkids get to see them..
Theres been a run of codling on the Calcton and Holland on sea beaches for about a week so I was feeling slightly more optimistic than usual.
The first chuck produced a nice little dab on my three hook flapper rod which was baited with lug and rag, this also produced a steady stream of whithing two nice sizeable ones.
The other rod had a four foot pully pennel with squis and blacks to target the codling but only seemed to catch small dogfish until two hour after high water then there was a big pull down with a drop back and out came my first decent codling for years, I quickly baited up and sent the lead out again to immediatly get the same result but slightly smaller.. buzzing I stayed for another hour only cathching more whiting.
Not a bad session with around twenty whiting, one dab and three doggies and of course the all important codling.
Both Codling when to 45cm and weighed 2.2lb which from the other pics I have seen seems to be about the average.
Hopefully this will continue every year now.
The codling went back for you lot to catch if you manage to do so can you please do the same so my grandkids get to see them..
