Catch Report - Ilfracombe - 15th July 2020 (5)

Date From: 15/07/2020 17:00:00

Date To: 15/07/2020 22:00:00

Time of day: Afternoon - evening

Location: Ilfracombe

Mark: The pier

Low Tide:

Moon Phase:

Weather: cloudy but sunny with just a gentle breeze

Sunrise/Sunset:

Sea: Clear and fairly flat with just a small swell

Method: Ledger (shop bought up and over rig) | Ledger (shop bought up and over rig) | Float | Prawn trap

Bait: Frozen whole large sandeel | frozen peeler crab, frozen whole loligo squid, frozen mackerel segments | frozen mackerel strips | frozen squid, frozen mackerel

Caught:

The Session:

I went for a ledgering session from my local pier hoping to at least get one Ray and maybe some other species. I set up the ledger rods first and due to the lack of wind I was able to cast the one baited with Sandeel around 80 yards and the one baited with Peeler Crab around 70 yards. I then set up a float rod to try for the usual Pollock to keep me busy if the ledger rods didn't produce much. I dropped the float by the side of the pier at around 16 feet deep. Finally I put out a prawn trap with some old squid and mackerel in to see what that might attract.

There were other anglers there and oen of them caught a small wrasse on ragworm but apart from that the rest of us barely had a bite. I began trying squid and mackerel on one of my ledger rods and I checked the prawn trap every so often. The only fish I had were a tiny Pollock, Pouting and Poorcod along with a Goby and a few retieves later another small Pouting, all in the prawn trap along with a fairly large Velvet swimming crab. Other than that I had no bites at all on the ledger rods of float rod.

I gave it around 5 hours as other anglers came and went and one or two also stuck it out because they were on holiday and determined to catch something. I passed on my remaining squid to one angler who appeared to be beginning to get bites as I was leaving.

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