col
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well,as the title says,me and b.p got the gear sorted for digging a bit worm and having a bash at the flatties over the west coast.
we set off at 5.30 and got to our chosen bait digging spot at 7.00pm,only to find there wasnt a worm/cast in sight
so after a fone call to j.v and a quick change of venue,we were soon onto a mark that has a few blow lug and yellows knocking about
the only problem was that they were deep and it was back breaking work digging them out,i think they were on there way to china
anyways with low water being about 9.20pm we werent short of time so we spent the next two hours getting as many as we could,altho i have to admit that we took bait over with us and didnt need too much lug at all,but we still dug in the region of seventy worm up,not a great deal for two hours but they were all of a good size
so back to the car for a can of redbull and a fag and we decided that the tide was still a bit far out for our first location,which was going to be "beckfoot"
we made the decision to drive down to whitehaven pier for the flood,and if it was slow then we would come back up to beckfoot an or so before high water
we got to whitehaven for around 11.00pm ish,by which time the tide was well into the flood.there wasnt another soul on the pier so we had the full place to our selves.
the tactics where to target the flatties as there wasnt a breath of wind and not so much as a ripple on the water,so not expecting out else we got two rods each set up at the veryend
baits we had were,runnydown,yellowtails,blow lug,rag worm,squid and some one had left a carrier bag half full of party squid which would of been rude not to give a go.
out went the rods and from the second the rigs hit the bottem it was bites on every rod : Very Happy
i was using a lightish rod and my appollo which gives good bite indication,but some of these knocks were like codling knocks,however it was clear when i pulled in a double shot of dabs on the first cast that was what was knocking about.
the ground in front of us must have been paved with them,cos every bait,cast at any range more or less in any direction was getting instant bites,apart from over to the left where paul was fishing
they were generally all on the small side wth the majority only barely making size,with the odd one going around 25 cms.there was also a sprinkling of rockling amongst them,5 bearded ones and fat little fellas at that
but as we had planned to go flatty bashing we couldnt be dissapointed really.
there were boats coming in from ireland for the first hour or so unloading their catches of prawns in the harbour behind us,we got talking to a local fella who walked along to see us while he was waiting for a boat to come in and give him his free bin bag full of prawns and skate wings.he came back at about 3.30am with a cup of coffee for us Wink nice fella and good to have a bit crack on with.
anyways we packed up at around 5.00 am to head back home,we had around thirty fish between us with a lot of missed fish and a few dropped fish too,i managed a few more than b.p this time round,we were still getting bites more or less as soon as the bait hit the water,so quite a busy nite for a change,and beets sitting watching a still rod all neet.
sory lads,but no pics this time cos not one of us remembered our camera
also i filled a bag up with other peoples rubbish whilst we were fishing,and left the pier in a lot cleaner state than it was before we got there
we set off at 5.30 and got to our chosen bait digging spot at 7.00pm,only to find there wasnt a worm/cast in sight
so after a fone call to j.v and a quick change of venue,we were soon onto a mark that has a few blow lug and yellows knocking about
the only problem was that they were deep and it was back breaking work digging them out,i think they were on there way to china
anyways with low water being about 9.20pm we werent short of time so we spent the next two hours getting as many as we could,altho i have to admit that we took bait over with us and didnt need too much lug at all,but we still dug in the region of seventy worm up,not a great deal for two hours but they were all of a good size
so back to the car for a can of redbull and a fag and we decided that the tide was still a bit far out for our first location,which was going to be "beckfoot"
we made the decision to drive down to whitehaven pier for the flood,and if it was slow then we would come back up to beckfoot an or so before high water
we got to whitehaven for around 11.00pm ish,by which time the tide was well into the flood.there wasnt another soul on the pier so we had the full place to our selves.
the tactics where to target the flatties as there wasnt a breath of wind and not so much as a ripple on the water,so not expecting out else we got two rods each set up at the veryend
baits we had were,runnydown,yellowtails,blow lug,rag worm,squid and some one had left a carrier bag half full of party squid which would of been rude not to give a go.
out went the rods and from the second the rigs hit the bottem it was bites on every rod : Very Happy
i was using a lightish rod and my appollo which gives good bite indication,but some of these knocks were like codling knocks,however it was clear when i pulled in a double shot of dabs on the first cast that was what was knocking about.
the ground in front of us must have been paved with them,cos every bait,cast at any range more or less in any direction was getting instant bites,apart from over to the left where paul was fishing
they were generally all on the small side wth the majority only barely making size,with the odd one going around 25 cms.there was also a sprinkling of rockling amongst them,5 bearded ones and fat little fellas at that
but as we had planned to go flatty bashing we couldnt be dissapointed really.
there were boats coming in from ireland for the first hour or so unloading their catches of prawns in the harbour behind us,we got talking to a local fella who walked along to see us while he was waiting for a boat to come in and give him his free bin bag full of prawns and skate wings.he came back at about 3.30am with a cup of coffee for us Wink nice fella and good to have a bit crack on with.
anyways we packed up at around 5.00 am to head back home,we had around thirty fish between us with a lot of missed fish and a few dropped fish too,i managed a few more than b.p this time round,we were still getting bites more or less as soon as the bait hit the water,so quite a busy nite for a change,and beets sitting watching a still rod all neet.
sory lads,but no pics this time cos not one of us remembered our camera
also i filled a bag up with other peoples rubbish whilst we were fishing,and left the pier in a lot cleaner state than it was before we got there
one of many fish i could just never kill but it will be his living in the end.
