Date: 10-08-2018
Time of day: Evening
Location: Ilfracombe
Mark: The pier
Low Tide: 11:46(1.15m) 00:18(0.88m) 12:39(0.71m)
High Tide: 05:42(8.79m) 18:06(9.15m) 06:36(9.27m) 18:57(9.60m)
Time fished from: 20:00
Time fished to: 00:05
Weather: Cloudy with some wind.
Sea: Fairly clear and choppy with a swell of around 2 feet.
Method: Ledger (homemade pulley rig) | Ledger (homemade pulley rig) | float | Ledger (running ledger)
Bait: Frozen Whole loligo squid | Frozen large sandeel | Frozen mackerel strips | frozen mackerel head
Caught (weight): 1 Pollock (1lbs 0oz, Guessed), 1 Dogfish (1lbs 4oz, guessed), 1 Pollock (0lbs 6oz, Guessed)
The Session: I went to my local pier for a short session on this evening because the weather forecast the rest of the weekend wasn''t looking very good. I set up pon the lower pier and began with a float rod baited with mackerel dropped down by the edge of the pier at a depth of around 14 feet. I then set up my two ledger rods with pulley rigs and cast them both around 70 yards out before finally setting up a rod wirth a running ledger and rotten bottom baited with a mackerel head. I also put a prawn trap down the side of the pier with a lot of old bait in.
The session wasn''t very eventful at all. The fish bite came on the float rod after an hour of being there. The rod, which was restsed horizontal with the butt on the stabilising bar of my tripod and the middle of the rod on the pier railings, was pulled forward and the ring made a noise as it hit the netal and alerted me to the bite. When I was unhooking the fish I noticed that it was blind in one eye and I wondered if it was the same fish I caught a few sessions before because it was the same size too if my memory was correct. The very next drop down gave another bite and it too pulled the rod hard. This fish was bigger and I recast hoping that a shoal was around and the session was going to get busy. Unfortunately it didn''t. I had no more bites on the float rod, and just a couple on the ledger rods of which I only hooked and landed a single dogfish.
The prawn trap produced around 18 prawns though and a couple of crabs. Due to it not being very busy I decided to pack up at midnight.
Tackle used (price) [ time since first used ]:
Set up 1: Rod: Daiwa Seahunter X 14ft 3 piece Fixed Spool (£60.00) [ > 0 years 2 months ]
Reel: Wychwood Riot Fixed Spool (£39.99) [ > 0 years 1 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 2: Rod: Daiwa Crosscast 13ft 3 piece Fixed Spool (£60.00) [ > 0 years 9 months ]
Reel: Shakespeare Agility Surf 70FD Fixed Spool (£39.99) [ > 4 years 3 months ]
Line: Maxima Chameleon 20lb (£9.99) 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 1 months ]
Reel: Lineaffe Carp 60 Baitrunner Fixed Spool (£12.00) [ > 2 years 0 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 8 months ]
Reel: Leeda Quicksilver Fixed Spool (£19.95) [ > 1 years 3 months ]
Line: Daiwa Sensor 50lb (£6.99) 230m
Hooks: Sakuma Circle Extra 6/0 (£7.29) 10
Hooklength: Gardner Slinky 100lb (£7.95) 100m
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