Date: 27-08-2017
Time of day: Afternoon - Evening
Location: Ilfracombe
Mark: Capstone rocks
Low Tide: 03:51(1.70m) 16:02(1.90m)
High Tide: 10:19(8.27m) 22:33(8.13m)
Time fished from: 14:00
Time fished to: 20:30
Weather: Sunny and warm with very little wind
Sea: Murky close in but clear further out. Flat with a very small swell
Method: float | lure
Bait: Frozen mackerel strips | Purple hokkai heads
Caught (weight): 4 Garfish (0lbs 6oz, Guessed), 1 Pollock (0lbs 4oz, Guessed)
The Session: I gave my regular rock mark another go and this time I brought some mackerel feathers with me as well as my float rod. I set both of them up before fishing and I cast out the float and reeled in a fe times until I got t to sit in a spot where it was not being pulled by the tow of the tide too much. I then began using my mackerel feathers and decided that if the float began producing fish I would give the feathers a rest for a while.
It was around 2 hours before I had a bite and it was on the feathers. I was a little surprised that a Garfish had taken them. I had another one on the very next cast. It was after returning this fish that I began to notice shoals of them sometimes following the feathers inwards until I drew them back into the murky water close in. Sometimes there looked to be over 10 following but mostly they appeared to just be investigating.
Over the next couple of hours I must have seen them follow my feathers for a quarter of the casts I made but only another two took them, before they finally stopped showing. As there were no Mackerel waround after nearly 6 hours of feathering I concentrated on the float but it was another hour and a half before I had a bite from a small Pollock and that was it. It was another poor session on the float but I experienced catching Garfish on the feathers for the first time. I don''t think they''ll be a fish I will be happy to catch a lot though due to their tendency to hardly ever stop wriggling when they are landed.
Tackle used (price) [ time since first used ]:
Set up 1: Rod: Shakespeare Alpha X Travel 11ft telescopic Fixed Spool (£20.94) [ > 4 years 6 months ]
Reel: Lineaffe Carp 60 Baitrunner Fixed Spool (£12.00) [ > 2 years 2 months ]
Line: Maxima Chameleon 20lb (£17.99) 600m
Hooks: Sakuma Stinger 2 (£15.00) 100
Hooklength: Maxima Clear 15lb (£4.00) 100m
Tackle: Fladen Pencil Float 210mm (£2.00)
Set up 2: Rod: Shakespeare Omni Mackerel 10ft 2 piece Fixed Spool (£17.95) [ > 4 years 3 months ]
Reel: Leeda Icon 5000 Fixed spool (£35.18) [ > 4 years 9 months ]
Line: Maxima Chameleon 20lb (£17.99) 600m
Lure: 6 hook hokkai heads (£1.99)
Shockleader: Sunset Amnesia 40lb (£4.50) 100m
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