Hoop

I'm up for it. Not wetted a line for ages. When are we going?

Shame you want multi, because I have a few FS beach rods that you could choose from! 

PB bream - 2.25lb Caught April 16th on the spoil grounds on Rag - good fight - delicious eating!
 

Thanks Steve that's kind. But I've just this morning ordered one! Typical. 

Nice going Steve. Good to see you back at it. 

I'd be lying if I said yes....
Had them on bait up Hillhead way, years ago, free lining rag on ebbing tide couldn't miss..
River Meon (inland from Hillhead) holds healthy head of ST and knowing anglers from that syndicate, steady catch reports flows throughout the year and electro surveys conducted in past years.. sluice at Hillhead Harbour - one way in and out. 
The bay, I thought, would be out of range.. assuming ST would hang around closer to the river system they were born!? Interestingly, I'd heard dits from folk concerning the spot I had previously taken you to (within pompey harbour), that said it used to be a hotspot for ST. (presumably from the Wallington) 
Interesting though, that same mark has turned up flounder, gurnard and ST.. all to metals.

I'd be lying if I said yes....
Had them on bait up Hillhead way, years ago, free lining rag on ebbing tide couldn't miss..
River Meon (inland from Hillhead) holds healthy head of ST and knowing anglers from that syndicate, steady catch reports flows throughout the year and electro surveys conducted in past years.. sluice at Hillhead Harbour - one way in and out. 
The bay, I thought, would be out of range.. assuming ST would hang around closer to the river system they were born!? Interestingly, I'd heard dits from folk concerning the spot I had previously taken you to (within pompey harbour), that said it used to be a hotspot for ST. (presumably from the Wallington) 
Interesting though, that same mark has turned up flounder, gurnard and ST.. all to metals.

Beautiful Bassy, well dangled.

Looks like good rewards for your efforts, a trout is such a good bonus, I would of been stoked with that.

Got the boat out Friday for a 8 hour trip. Early start to avoid the traffic gave us time for a breakfast in the town with a few club members. Launching has been made easy now as we have a new club tractor. 3 boats launched at 10 and we had a short steam to the first mark and a try for a bass. Slow start until the tide started to ease then a dog and a few thornies showed. Different bite and fight and knew it was a bass so bro got the net ready and sure enough a bar of silver broke surface. Quick rebait with whole squid and back down only for a repeat with an identical bass so 2 in 10 minutes. Few more rays followed than I had my biggest of the day at 4lb 4oz. We gave it another half hour or so then moved down channel to another bank hoping for a codling or early hound. Neither showed but we did have plenty of rays, some straps, a few dogs and a whiting. One more move closer to home on another bank looking for bass. We started off in 2 feet of water and didn’t get a bite until we had around 6 feet then it was non stop thornbacks. Must of had at least 20 in around 45 minutes. Back on the beach at 6 then down the club for a cheeky pint and some sausages and roasties, happy days 

Up pompey harbour for a couple of hours over HW, 2 Bass out on two casts to savage gear gravity stick in Khaki.

Up pompey harbour for a couple of hours over HW, 2 Bass out on two casts to savage gear gravity stick in Khaki.

Heyhoooo..
With weather wreaking havoc over Bassy plans in recent weeks, and having been spurred on with texts including pictures and tales of Bass to plastic earlier in the day...  with wind forecast looking OK a quick session was held down the Bay. 
More often than not, low water over a moderate tide suspends sediment in the water along the bay making it less than ideal but it was convenient for an hour or two to blow off the cobwebs..
Didn't expect much but was made up with this little chap.. and a first on the lure gear. 

Another attempt to go North Cornwall turned into south as we headed down and was trying to talk ourselves into the location planned but  the swells just were reading too big on the forecast… I think/know the boat would be okay out there it’s just getting past the bars and launching ect. So plan B back on the pollack.
towed all the way home and back both times these last two sessions with maintenance to do on boat ect.
Howling effort for such a short visit but hey..
anyway the fishing so ,,, still competing with an easterly on the south coast option . Which was annoying again becuase the east on the other side would have been okay..but the swells outweighed the option.
headed out tryed for find some launce and sure enough with a little persistence we found them. mackerel too
super excited about sending these down we headed off to the reefs and began . It wasn’t long before a rod went zooming over .
then a steady stream of smaller ones . The tide went slack and it was slow. Then we kept on and on moved round a few times. And by that point the tide picked up and the fishing, Ash persisted with the live bait I had two on live bait but switched to a lure when things went slow then stuck with it and was seeming to keep getting the takes.
so then Ash changed over to a lure too and bang both in . Better stamp coming through now and Ash couldn’t stop catching so we stopped no point clearing the reef out.
Some nice doubles and high single figure fish.
 
great trip very tired now.
Josh

Up pompey harbour for a couple of hours over HW, 2 Bass out on two casts to savage gear gravity stick in Khaki.

Up pompey harbour for a couple of hours over HW, 2 Bass out on two casts to savage gear gravity stick in Khaki.

Up pompey harbour for a couple of hours over HW, 2 Bass out on two casts to savage gear gravity stick in Khaki.

Heyhoooo..
With weather wreaking havoc over Bassy plans in recent weeks, and having been spurred on with texts including pictures and tales of Bass to plastic earlier in the day...  with wind forecast looking OK a quick session was held down the Bay. 
More often than not, low water over a moderate tide suspends sediment in the water along the bay making it less than ideal but it was convenient for an hour or two to blow off the cobwebs..
Didn't expect much but was made up with this little chap.. and a first on the lure gear. 

Heyhoooo..
With weather wreaking havoc over Bassy plans in recent weeks, and having been spurred on with texts including pictures and tales of Bass to plastic earlier in the day...  with wind forecast looking OK a quick session was held down the Bay. 
More often than not, low water over a moderate tide suspends sediment in the water along the bay making it less than ideal but it was convenient for an hour or two to blow off the cobwebs..
Didn't expect much but was made up with this little chap.. and a first on the lure gear. 

Heyhoooo..
With weather wreaking havoc over Bassy plans in recent weeks, and having been spurred on with texts including pictures and tales of Bass to plastic earlier in the day...  with wind forecast looking OK a quick session was held down the Bay. 
More often than not, low water over a moderate tide suspends sediment in the water along the bay making it less than ideal but it was convenient for an hour or two to blow off the cobwebs..
Didn't expect much but was made up with this little chap.. and a first on the lure gear. 

Heyhoooo..
With weather wreaking havoc over Bassy plans in recent weeks, and having been spurred on with texts including pictures and tales of Bass to plastic earlier in the day...  with wind forecast looking OK a quick session was held down the Bay. 
More often than not, low water over a moderate tide suspends sediment in the water along the bay making it less than ideal but it was convenient for an hour or two to blow off the cobwebs..
Didn't expect much but was made up with this little chap.. and a first on the lure gear. 

Heyhoooo..
With weather wreaking havoc over Bassy plans in recent weeks, and having been spurred on with texts including pictures and tales of Bass to plastic earlier in the day...  with wind forecast looking OK a quick session was held down the Bay. 
More often than not, low water over a moderate tide suspends sediment in the water along the bay making it less than ideal but it was convenient for an hour or two to blow off the cobwebs..
Didn't expect much but was made up with this little chap.. and a first on the lure gear. 

TBF we want measured scientific evidence, not the opinion of some headline grabbing tart.
The last compelling scientific evidence I read, it was concluded that the dense shoals of mack were moving more toward Iceland because of changes in the water temp (global warming ?), meant that they were following the changes in their food source.

I will never go back to mono, purely because of the stretch ( even co polymer is 12% ish). Bite detection and lure control is just so much better and easier with almost zero stretch braid.

As you will recall, those solent salmon and 3 bearded rockling dont half go some... stands to reason that the bench mark for any international tackle test, takes place in the mighty Solent. 😁 
An FG tied properly won't give up before other weak points in the line..  👍