20-07-2009

FISHING FROM BEER




Well there was a window in the weather and we managed to get a crew together so the Bream Trip from Beer was on.
I woke before darkness lifted its veil this morning and ventured from the deepest darkest depths of Cornwall to join the lads up in Devon. Me and Derek were picked up from Saltash by Gary after our silly o'clock dive from Camborne and we made our way to Beer. Stu (the-fox) and Scott (Chesney AKA Sick note!) were already there when we got there and Scott was not feeling well at all. After going for a constitutional he was fit enough for the day out with Cyril on Blue Lady, where the plan was to search out some Black Bream.
We made our way to the first mark and it was clear that the fishing was going to be a bit slow...
After a short move we all soon found the Pout, which were disguising themselves by replicating bite from other fish. Stu got smashed by a bite not too dissimilar to that of a Bass on a large squid bait, only to find a small pout had taken it...
Then I had that special take that could only be one thing...

With that followed much un-eventfulness until another move over the brittle star beds put us back into the bream action.
Up to this point Scott(sick note) had successfully managed to avoid catching anything, until the faithful puppy dogs put in an appearance.
We all managed a few bream, although fishing was fairly slow and sporadic - one minute they were there, the next gone.

All in all we landed about a 18 blacks, 3 or 4 mackie, several dogs, 1 female cuckoo, 1 pollock, 1 scad and umpteen pouting.

19-07-2009

Weather was looking good, tad windy!, but i had finished all my household chores so i thought i would nip out for a couple of hours and see if i could catch my tea!

Packed my 6 quid telescopic rod and my 12 remaining lugs and plodded off...... 2nd cast 3rd worm! zrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr bait runner shoots off, rod bent in double, fishermen all around me stood up with that - "jammy git" - expression ..........fishie on! lol, oh errrr big fishie on!! oh errrr I get that sneakie feeling no one is gonna help me land this one!

go crutchie go.........ignor them, they are jealous! yepeeeeeeee crutchie has her tea (4lb on the nose) - even kernowboy82, after recovering from his near miss this morning walked over to take a look -

pleased as punch, and i'm off on the hunt for black bream tomorrow- fingers crossed!!

15-07-2009

Well i was determined to get that monster, so i packed my kit and waded off to the south coast. was a wonderful day......sun shining, not a breath of wind, lovely fresh sandeel and fresh mackerel....caught first cast on feathers!

baited up, nice long cast with self weighted gar float and nice 3ft trace and super sharp hook pop, up flies my float, then down goes float then back up again lying flat on surface.......crutchie strikes......fishie on yippeee a monster 3lb garfish.........then zrrrrrrrrrrrrr slosh rachet goes......i wake up!!!

yep i had fallen asleep on the rocks dreaming of that illusive garfish!! slosh had woken me up with a nice 4lb strap on the end of it....gave a lovely fight!!

anyway after my little rocky dream, I had wonderful day my dad brought my nephew down, oh wot a wonderful lad!! I haven't seen him for a while and oh, so lovely, he is 16 now and 6 ft 6 and still insists on calling me "auntie lynnie" (awwww! sweet). Anyway lol we had about 30 small pollock up to a 1 lb on floats (all returned) and I managed 3 mackerel on the float....but a long way out and i also managed 2 straps of around the 4lb mark, great fun lol, dad isn't a fisherman, so he was running around in a panic, nephew was being a wuss and i was being a girlie lol again both released unharmed (the straps not my nephew and dad!! lol)still no illusive garfish but a lovely, lovely day out with my nephewwill have to try coverack, pendennis or penberth maybe for those peskie gars!

13-07-2009

Well the sun was shining and i had some worms left over from yesterday, so i decided to carry on with my species hunt and see if i could manage to hook a bream. Packed my little telescopic rod (6 quid on fleabay!) and tootled off to my favouite bream mark...

Had a quick chat with a fellow angler, who had had no luck using nice fresh crabs.....jokingly i said oh just watch me i'll show you how its done.!!! i set up with a size 1 hook and a 2oz running ledger, hooked up a nice lug (thanks gloria-hayle bait and tackle shop) and cast out about 20 foot...turned around to set up my other rod, nice little 6ft spinning od (again cheers gloria - hayle bait and tackle) just as i was tying on the swivel zrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr the other rod was bobbing and line was shooting out...errrmmm i thought lol breamie on!

moved down to rod, flicked baitunner switch and gently started to reel in.......flick bait runner switch again and play the fish a while......then i just gently brought him in!!! lovely a 3lb 4oz gilthead bream.......wicked!

I was well happy now, that was species 21 of my 26 target and it was the target fish of the day. I still had woms left and it was a lovely morning so i baited up my two rods and cast out again.....

Didnt have to wait long and the rod started to bob then the line started to scream off......oh my, surely not another bream? - 2 in 20 minutes, thats not possible!!! as soon as i started to reel in i knew it was my second of the day...i looked across at my fellow angler as i reeled in, with what must have looked the smuggest grin you have ever seen.......bless him, he just put his thumbs up at me, possibly muttering under his breath something like jammy git! lol

This one was slighter bigger weighing in at 3lb 8oz



well it wasn't long, i had managed a couple of small wrasse and a large spider crab and then my rod went again, bob bob bob, zrrrrrrrrrrr the reel shot off at about 70mph...OMG this really cant be a hatrick!!!?? can it?? well it was!! I gently played the fish in and yeah they were getting bigger 3lb 14oz wicked........i was now starting to get a little embarrassed so i bagged my fish and made a slow quiet retreat before i got mugged by the fellow anglers who weren't having much luck!! oops!
Now gonna concentrate on catching my illusive garfish!!!