Catch Report - Ilfracombe - 15th July 2019 (11)

Date From: 15/07/2019 16:00:00

Date To: 15/07/2019 22:40:00

Time of day: Afternoon - evening

Location: Ilfracombe

Mark: The Pier

Low Tide: 11:46 (1.81m)

High Tide: 05:42 (8.16m) 18:06 (8.44m)

Weather: Sunny with some wind.

Sea: Clear and flat with a swell of a couple of feet

Method: float

Bait: frozen mackerel strips

Caught:

The Session:

I popped down to my local pier for a float fishing session over high tide. I began with my flat set at around 14 feet deep and set it deeper over the last hour of the rising tide. I didn't have to wait long for a bite from the pollock and the second one came very shortly after. There was around two hours where I didn't get a single bite and after one fish the bites were sporadic until the light began to fade, with me also missing more than I hooked. I spent some time talking to a few local and non-local anglers while I waited for a shoal of pollock to arrive.

I had moved along the pier once the lower part was dry and began fishing over on the far left side, up on the rocks. The bites began to occur regularly and over the last half an hour with me catching most of the fish during this time. Due to my mackerel bait being a bit squishy I had gone through a whole fish with a lot of the strips falling off within a cast or two, so I wished I had brought more because I could have happily fished for another hour or two.

Tackle used (price) [ time since first used ]:

Set up 1:

Rod: Shakespeare Omni Mackerel 10ft 2 piece Fixed Spool (£17.95) [ > 5 years 0 months ] Reel: Leeda Icon 5000 Fixed spool (£35.18) [ > 5 years 6 months ] Line: Maxima Chameleon 20lb (£17.99) 600m Lure: 5 hook Purple H Shockleader: Drennan Greased Weasel 40lb (£7.43) 50m

Set up 2:

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