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The ancient Marinner (he's not old, just very cursed) and me decided to venture to the rocks at Beadnall, in search of our prey. We got there about 1400 Wednesday, and starting fishing the dropping tide. Gorgeous! A fairly big sea was away, but we found a stretch of fairly calm water (calm for us lunatics, most normal people who chin the fishing off and hit the boozer) and put two baits in each, about 40 yards-ish into deep water. We had with us the following baits; rag, runny down, sticky lug, oiled lug (very odd bait, from online) mussel, razorfish, squid and foreign peeler crab,again from online baits. Smashing out massive baits brought us nowt, long or short distances. Tried everything, and all known cocktail baits known to man. It was only when the tide was half way up that we started getting bites, just into darkness. Still no luck. Couldn't connect, until the Mariner put a rag bait in close,deep water, and promptly pulled out a 2 1/2 pound coding,with only one eye(!). About an hour later he did the same again, this time slightly bigger, from only about 20 yards out. Ever the conservationist, he put em back.
The sea became too big,freezin fog tipped up,and it all died off, so we bailed to the pub (with the rest of the normal people), then camped down at the mariners' Mother in Laws Gaff. In the morn we headed to Amble but sea too big, so ended up back in Seaham, and fished the Spiles at the bottom of the pier, which is where a 3 inch rockling stopped me from blanking; again on rag. Nowt else caught.
Lesson's learnt;
1. I take far too much gear, every time.
2. Standing too close to waves makes your clothes very wet.
3 Goretex is a huge conspiracy-it doesn't work, it just has a fancy name.
4. Never underestimate the ability of tiny rockling to swallow 4/0 hooks with 3 feet of bait threaded up them.
5. Don't stick to the obvious cod baits and tactics when yer not
catchin-mix it up a tad.
6. Avoid foreign peeler-it's total sh**e.
7. If you encouter the Marinner, don't make the mistake of thinking he's the unlucky one- his curse is transferable.
Gonna try the Targets next, wondering if anyone fished it recently?
Tight lines
The sea became too big,freezin fog tipped up,and it all died off, so we bailed to the pub (with the rest of the normal people), then camped down at the mariners' Mother in Laws Gaff. In the morn we headed to Amble but sea too big, so ended up back in Seaham, and fished the Spiles at the bottom of the pier, which is where a 3 inch rockling stopped me from blanking; again on rag. Nowt else caught.
Lesson's learnt;
1. I take far too much gear, every time.
2. Standing too close to waves makes your clothes very wet.
3 Goretex is a huge conspiracy-it doesn't work, it just has a fancy name.
4. Never underestimate the ability of tiny rockling to swallow 4/0 hooks with 3 feet of bait threaded up them.
5. Don't stick to the obvious cod baits and tactics when yer not
catchin-mix it up a tad.
6. Avoid foreign peeler-it's total sh**e.
7. If you encouter the Marinner, don't make the mistake of thinking he's the unlucky one- his curse is transferable.
Gonna try the Targets next, wondering if anyone fished it recently?
Tight lines
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