Popular Post mike farrants Posted June 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted June 23, 2023 Me Tim and Phil out on Seadog - all set for a lovely day - warm sunshine and flat calm seas - could it get any better? it did - best days fishing for a long time! Started off by finding mackerel on the way out - drove over a bait ball and bagged up a tough tub full of fresh mackerel - took the chance to fill the freezer too - must have had over 50 mackerel between 3 of us in 30 mins. Off to the mark filled with optimism - now this mark throws up all sorts of fish and today didn't disappoint - 12 species and 2 PBs to the boat from the same spot. dropped anchor and it was fish from the off. Tim had a lovely red, and a good run of bream, dogs, smoothies and conger, even managed a Pollock I had a lovely bull huss, and the usual bream, dogs and conger, I had a lovely little spotted ray followed by a huge pull down, taking line and fighting all the way to the surface, up came my PB Blonde ray - 13lb - an absolute blanket of a blonde ray! Phil was having a slower day than us two - just thornies, dogs and congers on big baits but he couldn't connect to the bream on the small stuff - while me and Tim carried on bringing them to the boat. odd. so phil switched back to the big baits and then he got his bream a decent size one too - on a 6.0 hook on a strip of mackerel! as tim was dropping his bream rig down he was getting hit by mackerel right under the boat - so we had some more fun with the feathers between bites - (maybe they were sheltering under the boat - but they were literally at our feet!) Tim was reeling in a bream and suddenly we saw it getting followed by a tope - Tim left it in the water to see if the tope would attack it - but must have ben spooked - one hook was bitten off but not the fish. so now came a plan - within 30 seconds i grabbed the feathers and pulled out a live mackerel to send down for the tope.... rod in the rod rest and left with the ratchet on...... in the mean time we carried on fishing - low and behold Phil gets a bite, says it feels different (slack line, head shakes, swims uptide) - bang - Tope to the surface - sadly though it snaps off at the surface - bitten through 100lb trace. would have been his first too! not to be outdone though - phil gets the last bite of the day and when it hits the surface i drop everything and grab the net - BASS - Phil's PB at 4lb what a day! - 12 species (at least - may have missed a or 2) Mackerel, Bream, pollock, Bull huss, LSD, Conger, Thornies, Spotted ray, Blonde ray, Smoothound, Tope, Red Gurnard, plus we took home 40 mackerel for the freezer between us - the bream that was intended for the BBQ got relegated tot he freezer as soon as the bass surfaced - dinner sorted! home bound via the pub for a quick one and a reflection on the best days fishing this year so far! PS note to self - remember to reel in the live bait before heading off to pull the anchor - we had to abort pulling the anchor as the ratchet was screaming! 🙂 jonnyswamp, Malc, Andy135 and 3 others 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 Cracking report 🙂 sounds like a great session 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 Nice one. Good to see a report like this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 Top effort there! Well done to all. Very good session 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejollysinker Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 Top notch fishing right there 👌 going out tomorrow trying a different spot or two 🤞 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daio web Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 top dangling mike ang others great report again bud keep it up 😎 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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