Catch Report - Ilfracombe - 19th October 2017 (5)

Date: 19-10-2017

Time of day: Evening - night

Location: Ilfracombe

Mark: The Pier

Low Tide: 00:49(1.00m) 13:00(0.97m) 00:15(1.08m) 12:27(1.03m)

High Tide: 07:06(9.28m) 19:21(9.30m) 06:31(9.20m) 18:46(9.32m)

Time fished from: 16:15

Time fished to: 00:30

Weather: Cloudy with a steady wind from behind

Sea: Clear but choppy with a swell of around 3 feet

Method: Ledger (homemade pulley rig) | Ledger (homemade 2 hook flapper)

Bait: Frozen whole loligo squid | frozen black lugworm, frozen squid pieces

Caught (weight): 1 Whiting (0lbs 3oz, Guessed), 1 Dogfish (1lbs 4oz, Guessed), 1 Whiting (0lbs 14oz, Guessed), 1 Bull Huss (2lbs 8oz, Guessed), 1 Dogfish (1lbs 8oz, Guessed)

The Session: I fished my local pier over high tide expecting to catch dogfish, whiting and pouting and I began on the upper pier which I fished until a couple of hours after high tide and then moved to the lower pier.

I set up a pulley rig and a 2 hook flapper and while I was on the upper pier I cast the flapper rig about 20 yards out and the pulley rig around 70 yards. It took a long time for me to get a bite and being the only one on the pier I didn''t know if it was just because the fish weren''t around at first.

After a couple of hours I began to get typical looking bites from either whiting or pouting and they were quick shakes of the rod tip. I couldn''t hook any for the first few but then had a small whiting. I continued to miss the few bites I had on the flapper rig before having a bite on the other rod and managing to hook a dogfish.

The next fish was another whiting but quite a bit bigger, touching 1lb but It was over half an hour after getting the dogfish when I caught it. Things were quite slow.

Once the lower pier was clear I move down and began casting both rods between 50 and 70 yards and not long after casting the pulley rig out I had a genlte bite which I was surprised to be a small Bull Huss. The only bite I had after was from a dogfish and I gave it another couple of hours before packing up.

It was quite a slow session but it was also the opposite state of the tide to what I usually fish so I was pleased to get a few.

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