Date: 25-11-2018
Time of day: Afternoon-evening
Location: Ilfracombe
Mark: The Pier
Low Tide: 00:39(0.88m) 13:00(0.99m)
High Tide: 07:00(9.46m) 19:25(9.35m)
Time fished from: 15:10
Time fished to: 22:00
Weather: Cloudy with wind varying from virtually none to very strong gusts
Sea: Fairly murky with a small swell of a couple of feet
Method: Ledger (homemade pulley rig) | Ledger (homemade pulley rig) | float | Ledger (running ledger)
Bait: Frozen calimari squid | frozen black lugworm, frozen launce segments | frozen squid pieces | frozen half whiting
Caught (weight): 1 Dogfish (1lbs 8oz, Guessed)
The Session: I made a last minute decision to go out fishing and decided on my local pier. I set up on the upper section because the tide was going to be big and probably washing over the top at some point.
First I set up my usual ledger rods, a pulley rig baited with launce and cast around 80 yards to my left and a flapper rig baited with lugworm cast around 40 yards straight ahead. I had a few casts of these and then because the wind died down a bit I decided to set up a float rod and try some squid fished near the edge about 20 foot deep. A bit later I also set up a running ledger with half of a whiting on and dropped it in close, before finally dropping a prawn trap over the edge to see what would venture in there. I put a load of old squid and sandeel in the main compartment of the trap.
The session was pretty much uneventful with just one bite on my ledger rod, which resulted in a pollock. Actually I could have had more bites because my hooks did come back with no bait on a lot but nothing registered on the rod tips so I put it down to very small fish, or crabs.
I lifted the prawn trap a few times and in total I had four hermit crabs, a couple of velvet swimming crabs, a small poorcod, two prawns and two edible crabs. Later on in the session I moved along the pier as the tide went out but I still had no noticable bites. I fished as long as I could and left with another rather poor session from this pier. Maybe by the end of the year I will have a good one, just like I was having earlier in the year.
Tackle used (price) [ time since first used ]:
Set up 1: Rod: Daiwa Seahunter X 14ft 3 piece Fixed Spool (£60.00) [ > 0 years 6 months ]
Reel: Shakespeare Agility Surf 70FD Fixed Spool (£39.99) [ > 4 years 6 months ]
Line: Maxima Hi-Viz 20lb (£15.42) 550m
Hooks: Sakuma Manta 2/0 (£13.05) 100
Shockleader: Gardner Slinky 60lb (£6.99) 100M
Hooklength: Sunset Amnesia 40lb (£4.50) 100m
Set up 2: Rod: Daiwa Crosscast 13ft 3 piece Fixed Spool (£60.00) [ > 1 years 0 months ]
Reel: Daiwa Crosscast S 5000 Fixed spool (£48.99) [ > 3 years 8 months ]
Line: Maxima Chameleon 20lb (£17.99) 600m
Hooks: Sakuma Manta 2/0 (£13.05) 100
Shockleader: Gardner Slinky 60lb (£6.99) 100M
Hooklength: Sunset Amnesia 40lb (£4.50) 100m
Set up 3: Rod: Shakespeare Omni Mackerel 10ft 2 piece Fixed Spool (£17.95) [ > 4 years 4 months ]
Reel: Lineaffe Carp 60 Baitrunner Fixed Spool (£12.00) [ > 2 years 3 months ]
Line: Maxima Chameleon 20lb (£17.99) 600m
Hooks: Sakuma Circle 440 2 (£5.55) 30
Hooklength: Maxima Clear 15lb (£4.00) 100m
Set up 4: Rod: Daiwa seahunter Z 13ft 2 piece MFS (£42.99) [ > 0 years 11 months ]
Reel: Leeda Quicksilver Fixed Spool (£19.95) [ > 1 years 6 months ]
Line: Daiwa Sensor 50lb (£6.99) 230m
Hooks: Sakuma Circle Extra 6/0 (£7.29) 10
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