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Well me and Kev got an early one today, and were on the road at 9am to head the sixty miles up to Montrose from Gleneagles to dig some bait before giving Lunan Bay a go on the incoming tide. It was absolutely chucking it down and all we had was shorts, wellys and hoodies, so we were well kitted out, NOT.
Arrived at the worm bed with instructions from Codonly and he was right, it looked good for worm. First few digs gave a couple of snake rag, then we concentrated on the lug. We had enough for the long session ahead after about half hour digging, when a few locals turned up!!. Kev shouted morning to them, as I dug ? And I Knew when one replied " Aye it's you lot who rape our beds and leave big holes for us to fall in when we get into our boats" with a few F*****s and C***s spread out, HERE WE GO AGAIN . Putting the fork to one side, I informed them that it was our first time here and that we only wanted enough for the session ahead. Nope they wouldn't listen, and it didn't help the cause when Kev piped up, " well if you were a little bigger, you wouldn't fall into the holes" Oh how I laughed. Valuing my near retirement and my vehicles tyres, we left and headed of to Lunan Bay, hoping for a Turbot or even a Bass.
We arrived to find the white sands had a strong North to South side wind, but we hadn't come this far to pack in. Things started really slowly with no bites for around an hour, so we decided to move to the area where the River flows into the Sea which was about 1000m to the South.
I was immediately into a nice fish which turned out to be a Plaice of nearly 2lb,which was followed by another of similar stamp. Kev was then into a fine Flounder well over a pound before the weed showed up, making fishing with the light gear near impossible.
We then decided to travel up to USAN and give the Jelly worms a try out on the Ledge that I'd had a cracking Cod session a few winters back.
Arrived at the Salmon Farm and parked up, walked the half mile or so along the cliff tops eventually arriving at the mark, which looked well fish able with plenty of movement and aeration, also quite clear.
We got out the light gear again and chucked out a few jelly worms. About 15 mins later Kev shouts , "think I'm fast". As line was streaming off his reel. Err no it's a fish Kev and a nice 4lb pollack was landed. The fish started hitting the Black Jelly worms regularly but getting them up the cliff was the hard part. Well I ended up with one about 6lb and another about 4lb and Kev landed a Mackeral and another Pollack around 5lb. The Stamp of the fish were really good but in the end, we packed up due to heavy tackle loss and the PERSISTANT rainfall, at around 7pm
A really good diverse day apart from meeting the Clampets.
Sorry we didn't dare get the IPhones out for photos..
A few of the locals were fishing just North of us for Cod but didn't see any landed, although they seemed to be busy with the bites.
All our fish were returned alive.
Arrived at the worm bed with instructions from Codonly and he was right, it looked good for worm. First few digs gave a couple of snake rag, then we concentrated on the lug. We had enough for the long session ahead after about half hour digging, when a few locals turned up!!. Kev shouted morning to them, as I dug ? And I Knew when one replied " Aye it's you lot who rape our beds and leave big holes for us to fall in when we get into our boats" with a few F*****s and C***s spread out, HERE WE GO AGAIN . Putting the fork to one side, I informed them that it was our first time here and that we only wanted enough for the session ahead. Nope they wouldn't listen, and it didn't help the cause when Kev piped up, " well if you were a little bigger, you wouldn't fall into the holes" Oh how I laughed. Valuing my near retirement and my vehicles tyres, we left and headed of to Lunan Bay, hoping for a Turbot or even a Bass.
We arrived to find the white sands had a strong North to South side wind, but we hadn't come this far to pack in. Things started really slowly with no bites for around an hour, so we decided to move to the area where the River flows into the Sea which was about 1000m to the South.
I was immediately into a nice fish which turned out to be a Plaice of nearly 2lb,which was followed by another of similar stamp. Kev was then into a fine Flounder well over a pound before the weed showed up, making fishing with the light gear near impossible.
We then decided to travel up to USAN and give the Jelly worms a try out on the Ledge that I'd had a cracking Cod session a few winters back.
Arrived at the Salmon Farm and parked up, walked the half mile or so along the cliff tops eventually arriving at the mark, which looked well fish able with plenty of movement and aeration, also quite clear.
We got out the light gear again and chucked out a few jelly worms. About 15 mins later Kev shouts , "think I'm fast". As line was streaming off his reel. Err no it's a fish Kev and a nice 4lb pollack was landed. The fish started hitting the Black Jelly worms regularly but getting them up the cliff was the hard part. Well I ended up with one about 6lb and another about 4lb and Kev landed a Mackeral and another Pollack around 5lb. The Stamp of the fish were really good but in the end, we packed up due to heavy tackle loss and the PERSISTANT rainfall, at around 7pm
A really good diverse day apart from meeting the Clampets.
Sorry we didn't dare get the IPhones out for photos..
A few of the locals were fishing just North of us for Cod but didn't see any landed, although they seemed to be busy with the bites.
All our fish were returned alive.
Does my head in, these locals thinking the Shore belongs to them.
They dont think anything about travelling umpteen miles across the country to Fish other areas, yet they spit their Dummies out when anyone travels to their spot to dig Worms or get Peelers.
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