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Hi lads & lasses
just been sent this catch report from
Gordon Brown
Featherstone
West Yorkshire
date -Thursday 30th November
venue - Stallingborough (Bay 18) Grimsby side of Humber Bank
tide - high 14.30
weather - sunny but really windy SW
Arrived early 09.30 so we could fish on bay 18,gets busy with locals so always pays to arrive well before high.Fished there week before and lost a large cod on rocks at bottom of wall when gripper lead got fast,pulled line and snood snapped and fish was gone (well gutted).
Started fishing about 11am,fished 2 rods one about 80yds out with a squid for bait and second rod about 100yds (just inside rip of river),fished with a pulley pennel (5/0 and 2/0 pennel top hook)with two large frozen black lug tipped with 2 small pieces of squid.Due to strong current had to change bait every 15 -20 minutes.
Fished for about an hour with no success not even a bite,things were looking bad at this time as the previous week I had caught plenty of good whiting on same tactics and at the same state of tide,maybe due to being a daylight high tide fish were not there (plenty of colour in sea so no reason for fish not to be there).
Another hour passed with no results ,just one bite which I missed.It was hard to tell if you had a bite due to strong winds.Spoke to my friend and decided to give it another half hour and if no results we would call it a day.
Rebated second rod and decided to belt it out a fair way, i'd say about 150yds.If you cast any further you would cast over a ledge and loose all your gear,so an accurate cast was needed.Bait was as before 2 large black lug tipped with squid on a pulley pennel.
Decided to have a coffee and sit down and hope for the best,no sooner had I sat down to have a drink my rod tip bounced once and stopped,thought the lead had just moved and then settled so carried on with drink.I suppose the bait was only in water for about 5 minutes when the line went slack and lead was sprung,due to state of tide and current I thought my line had been caught by soom weed or rubbish but when the tip banged twice more I knew there was some form of fish on the end.I dropped the coffee and picked up the rod and instantly I felt a fish pull straight away so I took a bit of slack in and struck,the rod went solid and bent over. I srarted to wind in and had to tighten clutch on my penn 525supermag as fish was taking line,I had know idea what I'd hooked into and it was hard to tell size of fish due to pull of tide and river current so I just kept winding to keep line tight.John had to wind in two rods as fish was swimming towards shore going down tide and crossing over the other lines.My heart was in my mouth a couple of times as line went slack as fish swam with the waves.
After about 5mins fish came to the top about 40yds out and I thought it was codling,I kept winding and slowed down when the fish was near the rocks passed the rod to John and jumped over the wall and made my way gingerly down the slippy rocks.I shouted to John and he lifted the rod and I grabbed the rig pulled fish in and lifted it out of the water by its mouth.I didn't realy look at fish as I was positive it was a codling,so I made my way up rocks and over the wall.
I coulnd believe what I had actually caught when I took a close look at the fish, to my surprise it wasn't a codling but a very large whiting.After unhooking the fish we decided to weigh it and to my amazement it was 3lbs 15ozs (what a fish), we then took a photo with my mobile phone and released the fish.
If I'd known what I know now I would of kept fish for more photos,thought record for shore caught whiting was around 6lbs not just over 4lbs.
I have caught many fish all around the country but this has to be one I will always remember.
just been sent this catch report from
Gordon Brown
Featherstone
West Yorkshire
date -Thursday 30th November
venue - Stallingborough (Bay 18) Grimsby side of Humber Bank
tide - high 14.30
weather - sunny but really windy SW
Arrived early 09.30 so we could fish on bay 18,gets busy with locals so always pays to arrive well before high.Fished there week before and lost a large cod on rocks at bottom of wall when gripper lead got fast,pulled line and snood snapped and fish was gone (well gutted).
Started fishing about 11am,fished 2 rods one about 80yds out with a squid for bait and second rod about 100yds (just inside rip of river),fished with a pulley pennel (5/0 and 2/0 pennel top hook)with two large frozen black lug tipped with 2 small pieces of squid.Due to strong current had to change bait every 15 -20 minutes.
Fished for about an hour with no success not even a bite,things were looking bad at this time as the previous week I had caught plenty of good whiting on same tactics and at the same state of tide,maybe due to being a daylight high tide fish were not there (plenty of colour in sea so no reason for fish not to be there).
Another hour passed with no results ,just one bite which I missed.It was hard to tell if you had a bite due to strong winds.Spoke to my friend and decided to give it another half hour and if no results we would call it a day.
Rebated second rod and decided to belt it out a fair way, i'd say about 150yds.If you cast any further you would cast over a ledge and loose all your gear,so an accurate cast was needed.Bait was as before 2 large black lug tipped with squid on a pulley pennel.
Decided to have a coffee and sit down and hope for the best,no sooner had I sat down to have a drink my rod tip bounced once and stopped,thought the lead had just moved and then settled so carried on with drink.I suppose the bait was only in water for about 5 minutes when the line went slack and lead was sprung,due to state of tide and current I thought my line had been caught by soom weed or rubbish but when the tip banged twice more I knew there was some form of fish on the end.I dropped the coffee and picked up the rod and instantly I felt a fish pull straight away so I took a bit of slack in and struck,the rod went solid and bent over. I srarted to wind in and had to tighten clutch on my penn 525supermag as fish was taking line,I had know idea what I'd hooked into and it was hard to tell size of fish due to pull of tide and river current so I just kept winding to keep line tight.John had to wind in two rods as fish was swimming towards shore going down tide and crossing over the other lines.My heart was in my mouth a couple of times as line went slack as fish swam with the waves.
After about 5mins fish came to the top about 40yds out and I thought it was codling,I kept winding and slowed down when the fish was near the rocks passed the rod to John and jumped over the wall and made my way gingerly down the slippy rocks.I shouted to John and he lifted the rod and I grabbed the rig pulled fish in and lifted it out of the water by its mouth.I didn't realy look at fish as I was positive it was a codling,so I made my way up rocks and over the wall.
I coulnd believe what I had actually caught when I took a close look at the fish, to my surprise it wasn't a codling but a very large whiting.After unhooking the fish we decided to weigh it and to my amazement it was 3lbs 15ozs (what a fish), we then took a photo with my mobile phone and released the fish.
If I'd known what I know now I would of kept fish for more photos,thought record for shore caught whiting was around 6lbs not just over 4lbs.
I have caught many fish all around the country but this has to be one I will always remember.
well done that man on a lovely whiting and respect to him for releasing it
, congrats on the catch
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