Fianlly after years of talking about it, finally made the decision to fish the Bristol Channel.
After a pleasant drive up from Torbay, finally found our spot but was suprised to see the tide was out at what looked like a couple of miles. Not used to this, on the south west coast I am used to fishing all states of tide.
Waited for the tide to come up and 2 hours before high, finally got my lug worm wet. Fished single hook pulley rigs with lug on tipped with squid. Had a couple of small pollock and whiting but nothing to shout about. It started to get dark and everyone else packed up and went home.
Continued fishing on and then I had a tap, tap on my rod tip and immediately thought COD, wound down and struck and could feel something, in it came and the all of a sudden it went slack.......lost it. Oh well cast out again..
Half an hour later the line on my other rod went slack, thought that my lead had just slipped so just wound in the slack line until i felt something pull back. Got excited now, could feel something fighting me as I reeled it in. Thought it was a big fish when my drag started to slip. Got my father in law to reach over the wall and grab my shockleader and up came.............a conger!!!
Yippee and he was big, about 3 feet long, guesstimated about 12lb. Wow my first ever double figure fish (i think)......well happy now...
Luckily there was a guy walking along with a camera who took the photo and promised to email it to me, will add photo later when i get it.
Losing another 2 fish on the retrieve then didnt matter. Definately worth the drive up to the channel and can't wait to get back up there again. Will go and buy some conger rigs today and try some congering around Torbay.
After a pleasant drive up from Torbay, finally found our spot but was suprised to see the tide was out at what looked like a couple of miles. Not used to this, on the south west coast I am used to fishing all states of tide.
Waited for the tide to come up and 2 hours before high, finally got my lug worm wet. Fished single hook pulley rigs with lug on tipped with squid. Had a couple of small pollock and whiting but nothing to shout about. It started to get dark and everyone else packed up and went home.
Continued fishing on and then I had a tap, tap on my rod tip and immediately thought COD, wound down and struck and could feel something, in it came and the all of a sudden it went slack.......lost it. Oh well cast out again..
Half an hour later the line on my other rod went slack, thought that my lead had just slipped so just wound in the slack line until i felt something pull back. Got excited now, could feel something fighting me as I reeled it in. Thought it was a big fish when my drag started to slip. Got my father in law to reach over the wall and grab my shockleader and up came.............a conger!!!
Yippee and he was big, about 3 feet long, guesstimated about 12lb. Wow my first ever double figure fish (i think)......well happy now...
Luckily there was a guy walking along with a camera who took the photo and promised to email it to me, will add photo later when i get it.
Losing another 2 fish on the retrieve then didnt matter. Definately worth the drive up to the channel and can't wait to get back up there again. Will go and buy some conger rigs today and try some congering around Torbay.
