St Mary's island 11-08-13

david.northeast

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Decided on a shot at st Mary's today so off we went. Arrived at 11 am and decided to have a shot at the concrete pillar. Straight away we had action with plenty of bites but no hook ups. I was varying the casting distance from very far out to 20yard lobs and all distances were showing fish. 4 casts in and I'm into a fish only for it to come off on the retrieve. So it was float time and 1st chuck I caught a lovely wrasse on ragworm weighing around 1lb.
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Simon was still struggling and couldn't connect to anything but was still getting bites.
The tide had started flooding and decided on a move into crisps gulley and 1st chuck sees me into a lovely red codling
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Whilst I had the big rod out I had another try with the float and again I was straight into another 3 fish although small I was still catching. Pollock lovely copper coloured fish. Unfortunately I don't have a picture. The wind was now really strong and hasn't had much action as water neared the top. We headed home and made the decision to wade across the causeway and back to the car.
Again Simon still hasn't aught anything but enjoyed being out.
 
Hi mate, i was one of the lads that came on shortly before you left. you guys should have stayed we ended up with 2 wrasse 4 codling 1 pollock and a long spine sea scorpion wind dropped a little and it turned out to be a very nice night. anyways nice one on your catch's :)
 
Hi mate, i was one of the lads that came on shortly before you left. you guys should have stayed we ended up with 2 wrasse 4 codling 1 pollock and a long spine sea scorpion wind dropped a little and it turned out to be a very nice night. anyways nice one on your catch's :)

Good to meet you mate even though there was little chat well done on your catch I would have stayed longer but Simon wanted to go for his tea. Happy with the fish I did catch mind , but was looking for the bigger fish
 
yeah the biguns will be lurking soon enough :) sat night we were there and had wrasse to 3lb it was nice to get larger wrasse on the light gear as they fight very well.
 
Well done mate I'm going to give st Mary's a try next week with the lads from work any advice on where to fish or not to fish would be appreciated
 
you get a bigger cheese burger at mcdonalds mate. you sure you didn't pull that wrasse out of your goldfish bowl b4 you left the house. iv had more action in an old peoples home
 
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