Date: 29-05-2016
Time of day: Afternoon - evening
Location: Bossington
Mark: Right hand side of beach
Low Tide: 05:43(2.37m) 18:06(2.76m)
High Tide: 12:19(8.84m) 00:50(8.76m)
Time fished from: 16:45
Time fished to: 22:20
Weather: Sunny, very warm, occasional wind increasing to a steady wind later on. Visibility fair.
Sea: Flat, clear 10 yards out. A small wave on teh shoreline when the tide had begun coming in.
Method: Ledger, pulley rig (rotten bottom) | Ledger, pulley rig (Rotten bottom)
Bait: Frozen peeler crab | large frozen sandeel, frozen small squid
Caught (weight): 1 Dogfish (1lbs 0oz, Guessed)
The Session: I set up one rod to target Smoothounds and another to target any other species. Both had a pulley rig which I cast about 80 yards out. Things were very quiet. Each time I reeled in my weights were caught so I had to pull hard to free them. Eventually I changed from gripper leads to 'pear' leads which proved easier to deal with. I had no bites on the smoothhound rod. On teh other rod I had three bites on sandeel, they were gentle bites but didn't seem like crab bites. I decided to try and hit the third one but missed it and so I decided to change the bait to squid to see if it tempted what was there to take the bate more confidently. After a while another bite began. I hit it after a few minutes and after freeing my weight I pulled in what at first I thoght was a crab but it turned out to be a dogfish. It was just hooked on the outside of its mouth. I was sure this had been the cause of the bites on sandeel too. I baited with another squid but no more bites came. After I switched back to snadeel and darkness had began to fall I had another bite which was bold but I waited for it to develop. After a couple of minutes teh rod tip stopped moving. I went to reel in and my lead was snagged so I lost it. The sandeel had also gone. I packed up because I was hungry. Before I did I pulled up a long length of line from the ground which had become mostly covered by gravel and rocks after someone lost it. There was no rig on the end.
Tackle used (price) [ time since first used ]:
Set up 1: Rod: Daiwa Seahunter X 14ft 3 piece Fixed spool (£64.07) [ > 2 years 0 months ] Reel: Daiwa Crosscast S 5000 Fixed spool (£48.99) [ > 1 years 2 months ] Line: Maxima Hi-Viz 15lb (£12.29) 550m Hooks: Sakuma Circle 440 size 2/0 (£8.26) 30 per pack Hooklength: Shakespeare Omni-X Connect Clear 15lb (£5.49)
Set up 2: Rod: Ron Thompson Evo Surf 15ft 3 piece Fixed Spool (£30.00) [ > 2 years 9 months ] Reel: Mitchell 667FG Fixed spool (£23.90) [ > 2 years 9 months ] Line: Maxima Chameleon 20lb (£17.99) 600m Hooks: Sakuma Manta size 2/0 (£2.35) 10 per pack Hooklength: Ultima Memorex 40lb (5.95) 50m
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