Date: 15-09-2017
Time of day: Evening - Night
Location: Ilfracombe
Mark: The pier
Low Tide: 07:51(2.92m) 20:46(2.78m)
High Tide: 01:34(7.25m) 14:17(7.31m)
Time fished from: 18:15
Time fished to: 00:30
Weather: Cloudy with very little wind but feeling fairly cold.
Sea: Fairly clear and calm with a swell of around 3 feet.
Method: Ledger (homemade pulley rig) | Ledger (homemade 2 hook flapper) | float
Bait: Frozen larger sandeel, frozen mackerel segments, frozen squid | frozen black lugworm, frozen squid | frozen mackerel strips
Caught (weight): 1 Pollock (0lbs 12oz, Guessed), 1 Pollock (0lbs 6oz, Guessed) | 1 Shore Rockling (0lbs 4oz, Guessed), 1 Shore Rockling (0lbs 6oz, Guessed)
The Session: I went to my local pier to see if any Ray were still around and it had been a good year for them for me. I set up on the lower pier and cast out two ledger rods, one with a pulley rig and one with a flapper rig. I cast them both around 60-80 yards over the session. I also set up a float rod and fished it close in and put out a prawn trap.
It was quite a slow evening with barely any bites on the ledger rods and just two bites on the float rod as light was beginning to fade, and both fish were pollock of the typical size for here. I brought in the prawn trap lots of times but all I had in it was a couple of rockling over the 6 hours. I stuck it out until after midnight when the tide was close to coming over the pier again and then I packed up, wondering if it could mean the Ray had moved away again now.
Tackle used (price) [ time since first used ]:
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