Davyred
Well-known member
After a long spell out of fishing for various reasons, I decided to dust off the old Apollo Mk1 and head down to my favourite mark on Roker.
After waiting for North East tackle to open, I armed myself with some really good lugworm, and off I sped to fish the flood tide.
On arrival at around 10am, there were around a half a dozen rods there, but as luck would have it, my mark was free
Setting up with the tried and tested rig, out went a pennel loaded with lugworm. Things were quiet early on with very little tide run. The odd Whiting popped up then a 6 pounder came out from the North east section of the roundhead. Quarter of an hour later, the same fella got another about 4lb. I was struggling with one undersize whiting to my name.
Having fished here for years, I knew that all was not lost. Sure enough, I tiny nod on my rod tip signalled a bite that wasn't a whiting. Sure enough, a bit slack line, and then a thump. After staying deep all the way in, up it came.....
6-2-0
I sent another big lug bait straight out and waited for 5 minutes before another shy bite resulted in this....
3-10-0
I was on a roll, or so I thought.... not another bite for an hour which resulted n a schoolie Bass, which was undersize. Unfortunately, it was deeply hooked and bleeding badly, so I had no option but to kill it I followed this up with another codling of about 1-8-0 on my last cast
It was nice to get back into the swing of things with a double figure bag
There were about a dozen codling caught, but considering the amount of rods on there when I left (it was full), it was quite disappointing.
I'm back down somewhere tonight, so will post a report tomorrow.
Some more pics...
After waiting for North East tackle to open, I armed myself with some really good lugworm, and off I sped to fish the flood tide.
On arrival at around 10am, there were around a half a dozen rods there, but as luck would have it, my mark was free
Setting up with the tried and tested rig, out went a pennel loaded with lugworm. Things were quiet early on with very little tide run. The odd Whiting popped up then a 6 pounder came out from the North east section of the roundhead. Quarter of an hour later, the same fella got another about 4lb. I was struggling with one undersize whiting to my name.
Having fished here for years, I knew that all was not lost. Sure enough, I tiny nod on my rod tip signalled a bite that wasn't a whiting. Sure enough, a bit slack line, and then a thump. After staying deep all the way in, up it came.....
6-2-0
I sent another big lug bait straight out and waited for 5 minutes before another shy bite resulted in this....
3-10-0
I was on a roll, or so I thought.... not another bite for an hour which resulted n a schoolie Bass, which was undersize. Unfortunately, it was deeply hooked and bleeding badly, so I had no option but to kill it
I followed this up with another codling of about 1-8-0 on my last castIt was nice to get back into the swing of things with a double figure bag
There were about a dozen codling caught, but considering the amount of rods on there when I left (it was full), it was quite disappointing.
I'm back down somewhere tonight, so will post a report tomorrow.
Some more pics...
