Nautical School

Bitterwell Lake

This Mirror Carp of around 2 1/2 to 3ld was

a lucky catch on the Pole.

I had a no 5 elastic to 3ld main line and 2ld hook lenght to a size 20 hook.

Bait was a Scopex flavoured 6mm pellet.

It also caught this 1 1/2 to 2ld Skimmer Bream

I also had around 4ld of Roach, Perch and small Skimmers.
The bright sunshine put the fish down and made it harder than
it used to be.

Ladye Bay 04-04-09

My eldest sun brought is 14 month old son down

and held his first fish, a pin Whiting.

Blank saved by a "crack off"

Fished in front of the Cottage this morning.

First cast nearly birdied my reel and second cast did and

this caused the loss of my rig and shock absorber line.

The high tide was at 10.24 and I fished from 07.45 till

12.45.

Apart from a bite on my first two casts no fish were caught.

Baits were Lug and Rag.

2 1/4 hours after high tide I found my lost rig.

This little Codling was hanging on and was released alive.

This photo shows the tide with two hours before high tide.This is the reverse photo two hours after high.

You have two clear this area and an other 40 mtrs to get to
sand and mud.

A good rough ground rod and reel with good retrieve
ratio to help reel in over this ground.

Yacht club 26-03-09

The high tide was at 19.20 so headed down there for 16.00.

Well what a surprise when I got there! An orange bouy

had been placed in front of or usual spot.

This means that this spot can not be fished at low tide,

no Sole fishing in the summer. ooh pooh!

So using short casts Russell and I started fishing around 17.00.

We used the usual baits and rigs.

This bulk carrier carrying coal had 5 tugs helping it

going into Portbury Dock.

The wind was so strong up channel that the waves were

going faster than the ship!

Any way I managed this little Codling.

The problem was sea weed????!!!!

Ouch! There were large rafts of it and by High tide Russell had lost two rigs

and our rigs were not in the water for more than 5 minutes with out being

dragged into rocks to our right!

So at the top of the tide we packed up and went home.

Catch this year: 7 Whiting, 25 Codling, 1 pouting, 1 Thornback Ray and 1 Crab.

7 out of 11 fish prefer Lugworm

Fished the Ladye Bay Ledges this morning.

Veals of Bristol had some lovely King Ragworm

longer than the fish Icaught.

I managed to catch 7 Codling and 4 Whiting.

7 of the fish, including the Whiting were caught on Lugworm

on the 3 hook paternoster rig.

The rest, all Codling, were caught on those big Ragworm
on 3/0 Pennell Pulley rigs.

How many fish are in this rock pool.
I put the fish in this pool, as the drop from
the top of the Ledge to the water, was to high to drop the fish.
So I put the fish in this pool until the tide had risen.
There are 4 fish in the pool, 2 Codling and 2 Whiting.

Baits used were Mackeral, Squid, Sand Eel,
Lugworm and Ragworm.

I fished from 07.45 till 13.30 with the high tide being
at 11.45 and 9.4mtrs.

Good weather at Rockingham