Date: 31-08-2018
Time of day: Evening
Location: Seaton
Mark: Main Beach
Low Tide: 03:29(0.77m) 15:40(0.93m) 04:03(0.89m) 16:17(1.07m)
High Tide: 10:09(3.90m) 22:19(3.91m) 10:41(3.80m) 22:55(3.76m)
Time fished from: 16:45
Time fished to: 01:50
Weather: Cloudy with some sunshine and a gentle breeze from behind.
Sea: Fairly clear and almost flat with very small waves.
Method: Ledger (homemade pulley rig) | Ledger (homemade pulley rig) | Ledger (running ledger) | lure
Bait: Frozen peeler crab, frozen whole large sandeel, Frozen whole loligo squid | Frozen peeler crab, frozen whole large sandeel, Frozen whole loligo squid, frozen mackerel segments | frozen mackerel head, frozen mackerel tail | 4 hook flasher rig
Caught (weight): 3 Mackerel (0lbs 8oz, Guessed)
The Session: I fished with 3 other people, two who I have fished with before. I set up two legder rods and a rod for mackerel feathering to try and get some to use as bait and freeze at home. Over the session I switched both of the main ledger rods between squid, sandeel and crab and I cast them both around 70 yards to begin with before trying shorter casts of down to 20 yards, after dark. I barely had a bite and my baits were coming back mostly untouched and occasionally only slightly eaten.
Once darkness fell I set up a rod to put a mackerel head on to try for a conger eel or bass, or maybe a ray. This came back untouched when I checked it three times over two hours. When I changed it to a mackerel tail there was a moment that I thought the rod was showing signs of the bait being touched. I had it set down in a drainpipe I had made into a sand ''spike'' and so it was standing vertically and waving back and forth a little at this time. Eventually it stopped and when I reeled in the tail it was stripped down to the bone by crabs. I changed it to a head and cast it further out for the remainder of the session.
The other people I was with were getting bites now and again, mostly from small fish but the best being a double figure Bull Huss from the person who was newest to sea fishing, which had us all pleased for him. We were all within a 100 yard stretch so it was odd I was the only one not getting any bites, especially as I was trying baits the others were also using. It was good to fish with other people again though and we had some good chats, which passed the time.
Two left at around 1am and the other two of us gave it a while longer before packing up and leaving around 2am. Although it was a poor session it wasn''t my worst there but I wished I''d caught a few more mackerel to take home that would have covered fuel costs.
Tackle used (price) [ time since first used ]:
Set up 1: Rod: Daiwa Seahunter X 14ft 3 piece Fixed Spool (£60.00) [ > 0 years 4 months ]
Reel: Wychwood Riot Fixed Spool (£39.99) [ > 0 years 2 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 10 months ]
Reel: Shakespeare Agility Surf 70FD Fixed Spool (£39.99) [ > 4 years 4 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: Daiwa seahunter Z 13ft 2 piece MFS (£42.99) [ > 0 years 9 months ]
Reel: Daiwa BF 5500 Fixed spool (gift) [ > 0 years 5 months ]
Line: Maxima Hi-Viz 20lb (£15.42) 550m
Hooks: Sakuma Circle Extra 6/0 (£7.29) 10
Shockleader: Gardner Slinky 60lb (£6.99) 100M
Hooklength: Gardner Slinky 60lb (£6.99) 100M
Set up 4: Rod: Shakespeare Omni Mackerel 10ft 2 piece Fixed Spool (£17.95) [ > 4 years 2 months ]
Reel: Leeda Icon 5000 Fixed spool (£35.18) [ > 4 years 8 months ]
Line: Maxima Chameleon 20lb (£17.99) 600m
Lure: Leeda 4 Hook Flasher Rig Silver (£1.50)
Shockleader: Ultima Memorex 40lb (£5.95) 50m
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