Nipped over to Chesil straight after dinner yesterday.
Monster garfish on a crosswake....had a few very big gars the last couple of weeks.
Tried a couple of new lures out for no response, mag crystal minnow and a 23g savage gear seeker, christ does that thing fly, surprised how shallow it can be fished as well. Interesting bit of metal.
Tried the longest casting plastic I have, hitherto fishless NL-1. It got hit at maximum range and had my hopes up until I got it in close enough to see what it was, 43cm mackerel. Not the best way to christen a lure I have had for a year.
The one that I found very strange was the next hit. Something stopped my crosswake moving and I thought it was weed at first, it was getting dark by now and there was a lot of weed you couldn't make out. Then it showed a bit of life, but not much.....flash of a reasonable sized fish in the water had my hopes up......56cm pollock, I haven't had one on a lure rod before and assumed the beach rods and carp rods were just overpowering them. I can see why they are not taken seriously, what a lifeless slug. Pollock on a topwater lure really struck me as weird especially in water that deep. Is that common?
NL-1 redeemed itself with a schoolie to finish up.
Monster garfish on a crosswake....had a few very big gars the last couple of weeks.
Tried a couple of new lures out for no response, mag crystal minnow and a 23g savage gear seeker, christ does that thing fly, surprised how shallow it can be fished as well. Interesting bit of metal.
Tried the longest casting plastic I have, hitherto fishless NL-1. It got hit at maximum range and had my hopes up until I got it in close enough to see what it was, 43cm mackerel. Not the best way to christen a lure I have had for a year.
The one that I found very strange was the next hit. Something stopped my crosswake moving and I thought it was weed at first, it was getting dark by now and there was a lot of weed you couldn't make out. Then it showed a bit of life, but not much.....flash of a reasonable sized fish in the water had my hopes up......56cm pollock, I haven't had one on a lure rod before and assumed the beach rods and carp rods were just overpowering them. I can see why they are not taken seriously, what a lifeless slug. Pollock on a topwater lure really struck me as weird especially in water that deep. Is that common?
NL-1 redeemed itself with a schoolie to finish up.