Beaten by my son. Ladye Bay ledges.11-06-16

Headed down to the ledges for a few hours with Jason.

Tide was at 12.15 and 11.2m.

I started at 08.45 with Squid and frozen crab.

Well it was very slow until

about an hour before high water.

When Jason had a classic Thorny bite

on Macheral bait.

This beautifully marked Thornback Ray

of around 5ld 

was Jay's first ever Thorny 

and he was well stoked.

He hasn't stopped smiling and talking about it

all day.

My turn a short while later

with the rain coming down,

was this 15 inch Codling on

a cocktail of Lug, Rag and fresh peeler crab.

Jay's turn again after the rain

was this Cat Shark "AKA Dogfish"

For the last hour of fishing after

high water,

I had two Strap Conger

in quick succession.

It was a warm muggy day

with drizzle at times.

Tea shirt fishing

is so good.

Now time to service my

reels

and remake some rigs.

Another nice fishing trip.

Ladye Bay 31-05-16

A chance to get out came up

so I legged it down to Clevedon

for 05.00.

I chose the ledges for the low tide

session, with the low at 09.18.

 I used Lug and Squid for bait,

with this small Conger being the

action, taking a whole Squid on a

Pennell Pulley rig.

 The wind was quite brisk from the

north /  north east.

It was also a beautiful sunny morning

and surprisingly I was on my own.

Which means that the Channel is fishing

poorly. 

 After the first Conger I had a

Codling just short of keeper size,

taking Lug worm on a wishbone rig.

This was followed by a slightly

larger Conger on the wishbone rig 

just before low water.

 At low water another Codling

took the wishbone rig as well.

With turn of the tide so the weed

started showing its self.

All during the tide the line

had the sticky mud causing

bunching on the line

which blocked the shock leader

from passing through the

top eye.

On winding in the last

cast I found these two tiddlers,

a Whiting and a Pouting.

Well I guess its still baby time out there,

and with some bait left over I

have another chance to fish

on Thursday.

Fingers crossed the larger fish are

out to play.