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Fished Anstruther red pier,11:00 to 21:15, Tide LT=13:50 HT=20:23, Bait mackie,bluey,ragworm,lugworm,squid, Weather cloudy stayed dry though,water some mice waves.
I had intended to fish Elliot beach Arbroath but Sean was working and thought let's go somewhere different so i took myself to Anstruther a place i haven't fished for over a year. My thought was that i might get a wrasse to add to my species list and maybe the chance of small fry. I started fishing with the two beachcasters one with a pulley rig and one with a 2 hook paternoster not the best kind of rig for fishing there but i just had the feeling this may just work here, i also had my spinning rod with float just to give it a try. So started fishing about 3 hours before low tide just to see what was around and soon found the answer....nothing. There was the odd bite but nothing come of it. I thought the fish have to come in with the tide. Well they did first fish 3 hours after low tide so 6 hours of nothing but i wasn't gonna give up.
So 3 hours after low tide got a good knock on one of my beachcasters struck it to find me bringing in my first wrasse of the year that made my day not big but good enough. It was another wait of 2 hours before my next bite another good hard knock my thoughts turned to maybe another wrasse and so it was, another one duly landed a bit bigger than the last weighing in at 2lb 4oz. Just under an hour later a good hard bang on the rod found me bringing in another wrasse biggest so far weighing in at 3lb 13oz a new pb for me, my previous being 2lb 9oz if i remember correctly. 20 Minutes on found me with a slack line bite which turned out to be another wrasse smaller one but welcome all the same. Another 45 minutes seen me bring in another wrasse weighing in at 2lb 1oz. This was followed soon after by my first coalfish of sesh. Then a long spined ss had to check it but yip long spined. This was followed 15 minutes later by another wrasse a nice size and my last fish landed was another coalfish. The fishing seemed to die after this so after an hour i called it a day.
I have to admit during the first 6 hours i was begining to doubt whether there was any fish there at all but patience and never give up attitude paid of and much better than i could have hoped for. That is more wrasse than i have ever caught in a sesh along with a pb it just couldn't get better. I might as well have thrown all my other bait in the bin the only bait that was catching was the ragworm and that included the coalies. So glad i decided to get down and dig them. Mind you at Tayport it was the rag that was getting me the dabs so maybe the bait oif choice from now on if only i could find another couple of rag beds. I did miss a few bites during sesh hard bites and a few small ones and had something grab my float and took the float under and into the weed, lost the hook, also lost a couple of rockling type fish in the harbour itself once again in the weed and a float too.
Total catch Wrasse 6, Coalfish 2, Lsss 1. Video to follow.
My first wrasse.
My second wrasse.
My 3rd and new pb weighing in at 3lb 13oz.
My fourth wrasse
My fifth wrasse
My only long spined ss
My sixth and final wrasse.
I had intended to fish Elliot beach Arbroath but Sean was working and thought let's go somewhere different so i took myself to Anstruther a place i haven't fished for over a year. My thought was that i might get a wrasse to add to my species list and maybe the chance of small fry. I started fishing with the two beachcasters one with a pulley rig and one with a 2 hook paternoster not the best kind of rig for fishing there but i just had the feeling this may just work here, i also had my spinning rod with float just to give it a try. So started fishing about 3 hours before low tide just to see what was around and soon found the answer....nothing. There was the odd bite but nothing come of it. I thought the fish have to come in with the tide. Well they did first fish 3 hours after low tide so 6 hours of nothing but i wasn't gonna give up.
So 3 hours after low tide got a good knock on one of my beachcasters struck it to find me bringing in my first wrasse of the year that made my day not big but good enough. It was another wait of 2 hours before my next bite another good hard knock my thoughts turned to maybe another wrasse and so it was, another one duly landed a bit bigger than the last weighing in at 2lb 4oz. Just under an hour later a good hard bang on the rod found me bringing in another wrasse biggest so far weighing in at 3lb 13oz a new pb for me, my previous being 2lb 9oz if i remember correctly. 20 Minutes on found me with a slack line bite which turned out to be another wrasse smaller one but welcome all the same. Another 45 minutes seen me bring in another wrasse weighing in at 2lb 1oz. This was followed soon after by my first coalfish of sesh. Then a long spined ss had to check it but yip long spined. This was followed 15 minutes later by another wrasse a nice size and my last fish landed was another coalfish. The fishing seemed to die after this so after an hour i called it a day.
I have to admit during the first 6 hours i was begining to doubt whether there was any fish there at all but patience and never give up attitude paid of and much better than i could have hoped for. That is more wrasse than i have ever caught in a sesh along with a pb it just couldn't get better. I might as well have thrown all my other bait in the bin the only bait that was catching was the ragworm and that included the coalies. So glad i decided to get down and dig them. Mind you at Tayport it was the rag that was getting me the dabs so maybe the bait oif choice from now on if only i could find another couple of rag beds. I did miss a few bites during sesh hard bites and a few small ones and had something grab my float and took the float under and into the weed, lost the hook, also lost a couple of rockling type fish in the harbour itself once again in the weed and a float too.
Total catch Wrasse 6, Coalfish 2, Lsss 1. Video to follow.
My first wrasse.
My second wrasse.
My 3rd and new pb weighing in at 3lb 13oz.
My fourth wrasse
My fifth wrasse
My only long spined ss
My sixth and final wrasse.