Fished Long for a few hours last night for the snakes, arrived at the rock mark next to the caves (still fishing the same bit of water just easier rocks to fish from) at around half seven with 2 of my mates and prepared for the night ahead getting rods put up and rigs sorted out.
noticed the place was an absolute shambols with beer cans, buckfast bottles, discarded line and various other rubbish which was pretty annoying to say the least as it isnt usually that messy, not only that we noticed that some warm hearted soul had kindly excreted all over the place down the big scarey hole in the ground and left bags of racid bait and all sorts of crap in there also, which meant, for those of you who have fished there will know, we could smell it most of the night due to the hole in the ground leading to a kinda cave area at your back, seems there are alot of "anglers" being caught short these days!! anyways back to the fishing,
watched the shoals of mackies hammer the fry, sometimes coming right into the rocks, saw some decent pollack chasing the shoals too, some i modestly estimated at around 4-5lb which is an excellent fish for up there.
fished from about half an hour after low tide all the way up to half an hour before high, had plenty of action throughout the early part of the night with some decent bites and a few decent runs which we missed :wallbash:, just before the darkness set in we lit a small fire in the cave at our back which kept the midgies off our case and got rid of all the nasties that the previous tramps had left for us! it also provided us with some nice hot tatties to eat while waiting on the sound of our ratchets!!
at around midnight my mate got a gd run which produced a small stap of 3lb 2oz which was quickly photographed, unhooked and weighed before being returned safely, just as i was packing up my gear around 1am i got a run & caught a strap at 3lb 4oz which again was photo'd,unhooked and weighed and returned to fight another day, no sonner had i released that eel and packed away my rod my reel was singing again as another eel was making a run on my other rod, this produced an eel of 3lb 9oz which gave a rather spirited fight for its size, after that i packed up and headed home, a rather enjoyable & productive sesh despite the stamp of fish being pretty small and the mess that some thoughtless barstewards had left the place in!! all fish were weighed, photographed and released with pics to follow when my mate gets his ass in gear and emails them to me!!
noticed the place was an absolute shambols with beer cans, buckfast bottles, discarded line and various other rubbish which was pretty annoying to say the least as it isnt usually that messy, not only that we noticed that some warm hearted soul had kindly excreted all over the place down the big scarey hole in the ground and left bags of racid bait and all sorts of crap in there also, which meant, for those of you who have fished there will know, we could smell it most of the night due to the hole in the ground leading to a kinda cave area at your back, seems there are alot of "anglers" being caught short these days!! anyways back to the fishing,
watched the shoals of mackies hammer the fry, sometimes coming right into the rocks, saw some decent pollack chasing the shoals too, some i modestly estimated at around 4-5lb which is an excellent fish for up there.
fished from about half an hour after low tide all the way up to half an hour before high, had plenty of action throughout the early part of the night with some decent bites and a few decent runs which we missed :wallbash:, just before the darkness set in we lit a small fire in the cave at our back which kept the midgies off our case and got rid of all the nasties that the previous tramps had left for us! it also provided us with some nice hot tatties to eat while waiting on the sound of our ratchets!!
at around midnight my mate got a gd run which produced a small stap of 3lb 2oz which was quickly photographed, unhooked and weighed before being returned safely, just as i was packing up my gear around 1am i got a run & caught a strap at 3lb 4oz which again was photo'd,unhooked and weighed and returned to fight another day, no sonner had i released that eel and packed away my rod my reel was singing again as another eel was making a run on my other rod, this produced an eel of 3lb 9oz which gave a rather spirited fight for its size, after that i packed up and headed home, a rather enjoyable & productive sesh despite the stamp of fish being pretty small and the mess that some thoughtless barstewards had left the place in!! all fish were weighed, photographed and released with pics to follow when my mate gets his ass in gear and emails them to me!!