Popular Post mike farrants Posted August 30 Popular Post Share Posted August 30 (edited) Following the constant wind on my week off and the typical flat calm on my 1st day back - i though sod this - im going out after work - working from home and being 2 mins from the marina meant i can be off the pontoon shortly after 5pm. the plan was to drift the inshore sand for plaice, and tow a float for anything else as it was such a lovely evening my other half Kate wanted to join - this usually means keeping the bait and fish away from her as she 'hates' fish and just wants to bask in the peace.... however after seeing me catch a couple of mackerel on the float (it was her that spotted the float go under too) she asked if she could have a go at feathering - as long as i helped her. I was fishing 3 rods - one spinning rod for the float off the back for mackerel/gar, one plaice rig with rag in the off chance, and i chucked the squid jigs over for an even slimmer chance of an early squid in the sea grass. I had managed 2x mackerel in the first 2 drifts when Kate said she wanted a go - so i rigged up a 4th rod for her with tinsels. and bang - shortly after dropping down she reeled in a small pollock, followed by another, then a pout, then 3 mackerel, then another pollock and i think lost a pout at the surface...... (trust me she isn't holding them at arms length to make them look bigger - she did not learn that from me - that's just to get them as far away form her as possible!!!) in between unhooking her fish i was playing with a cuttle fish - it followed my jigs up so back down i went, and it was on, dropped at the surface so i grabbed the net, it then let go at the surface another 3 times before it gave up. never mind. 5 mackerel for the bait freezer, and full bragging rights to the newbee......... happy for her to overcome her fear and get to see the Buzz around landing a fish! cracking evening Edited September 9 by mike farrants daio web, jonnyswamp, Andy135 and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 Nice one! An after work session with the Mrs and fish to the boat. What's mot to like?!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyswamp Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 Nice Mike, Mrs Swamp has only been on my boat once and she certainly wouldn't want to go fishing with me I've been trying to convince her to do a weekend across to Ilfracombe with me for a while and it's still falling on deaf ears Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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