andyco
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Got down to SSP at 6pm, an hour before high tide, using my new spinning set up - Shimano Vengeance and Penn Fierce 4000 - for the first time, but using it with the float, as I was after a corkwing wrasse and a pollock.
The plan was to fish the second gate area for a corkwing then go down to the blocks and try for a decent pollock, with either the float or to try some fire tail sidewinders.
First hour was a bit slow, with quite a few tiny coleys, about 3 inches long, then on high tide I christened my rod properly, with a fierce rattle and the float getting dragged down, and pulled out a wrasse.
I thought it was just a ballan (might be a male corkwing?), so kept trying for the corkwing I needed for the species hunt. A couple more little coley, then the float got dragged down again
I'm pretty sure this one is a corkwing, it had the black spot on the tail end
Target ticked, so I moved down to the blocks for a pollock, thought I'd try the float first and if no luck then try the lures, but first cast, just at the edge of the blocks and the float disappeared. Had a good little fight on the rod and got my first pollock this year
Not huge, but I was happy with the size, about 40cm.
Loads of macky bashers out, but no macky! I seen young Connor who'd had some big greater sand eel up at the wheel end, so thought I'd drop the float down up there - got a couple more coley, and another pollock!
Finished at about 9pm. Decent little float session, 2 new species for the hunt and got to christen the rod with some small but hard fighting fish - I bet the big wrasse must be pretty hard fighters, might have to try for some specimen size up north some time.
The plan was to fish the second gate area for a corkwing then go down to the blocks and try for a decent pollock, with either the float or to try some fire tail sidewinders.
First hour was a bit slow, with quite a few tiny coleys, about 3 inches long, then on high tide I christened my rod properly, with a fierce rattle and the float getting dragged down, and pulled out a wrasse.
I thought it was just a ballan (might be a male corkwing?), so kept trying for the corkwing I needed for the species hunt. A couple more little coley, then the float got dragged down again
I'm pretty sure this one is a corkwing, it had the black spot on the tail end
Target ticked, so I moved down to the blocks for a pollock, thought I'd try the float first and if no luck then try the lures, but first cast, just at the edge of the blocks and the float disappeared. Had a good little fight on the rod and got my first pollock this year
Not huge, but I was happy with the size, about 40cm.
Loads of macky bashers out, but no macky! I seen young Connor who'd had some big greater sand eel up at the wheel end, so thought I'd drop the float down up there - got a couple more coley, and another pollock!
Finished at about 9pm. Decent little float session, 2 new species for the hunt and got to christen the rod with some small but hard fighting fish - I bet the big wrasse must be pretty hard fighters, might have to try for some specimen size up north some time.
