Shingle Bank, Severn Beach 01-11-10

Went for a long walk with my rods
today up Severn Beach way.
Trudging through the mud and over Bladder Wort weed
covered rocks, I came to a spot with a gully in front of me.
Behind me was more of the the above!

While the Gully was filling up with the

in coming tide, there were no bites except

for one rattle from a Snottie.
As I got pushed back by the tide the Codling started biting.

The first was caught on the wishbone rig with rag worm bait.
There probably less than 6 foot of water.
The bites then came steadily.
I eventually ended up on this shingle bank.

The wishbone rig accounting for
most of the fish.
Lucky day for these two as they were returned.
The top one was just under size anyway.

As I was about to move off the shingle bank
this cap took the bait, rag and lug cocktail on
a pennel pulley rig.
Lucky day for this one as well, I put it back.
As can be seen the shingle has already gone?

I then took a hike to Severn Beach it self.
here I had another snottie mess up a rig
as well as my final Codling, again it
was returned.
This is as far as a 10.6mtr tide gets to at high tide.

Total bites = 14.
8 bites were Codling, 3 kept for the table, 5 returned.
2 Snottie bites recked rigs?
4 bites mised.

River Frome, Frenchay

This was the seen that greeted me down on the river Frome.
Leaves all over the place.
But look at the colour of trees.
MAGIC.

I fished under the the over hanging tree

on the left.
Worms, maggots, caster and sweetcorn were the
baits used.

I fished 7 meters on the pole but only had half a dozen
bites which produced 2 Minnows.

The leaves caused many problems and in the end
I gave up after 3 hours.

Rockingham 21-10-10

Fished the grass bank from 17.15 till 20.00.
First cast out with the the wish bone rig produced a 37cm
codling on lug bait.
Woo Hoo good start can it continue?

The tide was 12.5mtrs at 19.09.
Rigs used were the wish bone rig
and a Pulley Rig with 3/0 Pennell hooks.
Baits used were lug / rag and squid.
Well yes the fish kept comeing!
I managed 4 more keepers
Russell (my son) who was also fishing with me
also caught 4 codling and a flounder.
However he did have to borrow one of my wishbone rigs
to catch most of his fish.

What a great evening, as Russell said
"It's just like the good old days"

"Good fishing, good company, good weather"
What can you want?

New mark :- the pipes 10-10-10

Fished a new venue today.
A 10 minute walk along from the Severn Beach
there is a spot that is the same as fishing Rockingham,
except that this is whats in front of you instead of mud!
The mud starts further out.

As can be seen from this photo (looking towards Severn Beach)
its just beyond the grass bank.

This time I used the pulley rig on one rod with whole squid
and a Wishbone rig with rag and lug on the other
15 minutes before the top of the tide and the first bite
of the day produced this Codling on the lug baited wishbone.

At the top of the tide, 09.30, a nice plump flounder found
the rag baited wishbone hook.
This under sized flounder came to the lug/rag baited
wishbone rig and was returned alive, 10 minutes later.

No more bites were seen and I packed up around 10.30.

Cottage, Portishead 09-10-10

Fished the ledge by the Cottage from 06.15 till 10.30.

It was a 14.2mtr at 08.51.
To cut a long story short "BLANKED"

This photo shows the tide at its highest
If there was a westerly wind behind the tide I'd have been in trouble!!!

As can be seen it was a dull day with an north easterly wind.

This car transporter is heading for Portbury Docks

I was using Pennell Pulley rigs with size 3/0 hooks.
Baits used were Lug, Rag and Squid.

At the top of the tide there was a lot of floating bladder weed
which caused me to loss three rigs. AAARRRGGG.

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Rockingham 27-09-10

The Codling came in two by two!
Not quite
But the wishbone rig produced 4 codling.
One was a keeper and the rest were released.

The top of the tide was at 10.01 and 12.1 mtrs.
I fished from 08.15 till 11.15

This was the first fish of the day,
a baby Codling of 2 inches.

Baits used were Lugworm, Squid, Sandeel and Bluey.
Lug worm accounted for all fish including
this little Whiting.

Not sure which type of animal
made these tracks.
It went out onto the mud

then came back dragging something along.

Was it a fox, Minx or Otter.
Guess I'll never find out.

Rockingham 24-09-10

Library photo.

Fished down the grass bank again this morning with
my son Russell (Rusty).
High water was at 08.35 and fished from 06.30 till 10.00.
It was a 12.6 mtr tide.
The usual rods and rigs were used.
Baits taken were Squid, Bluey, Rag and Lug.
It was a warm morning until high tide when the wind picked up
and that took the edge off the temperature.

I caught the first fish, a Codling, just big enough dinner. It was caught on a Wish bone rig
with Lug as bait.
There was then a lull in the bites untill Rusty had a
had another Codling.
In the end I had 9 fish 5 Codling, 3 Snotties and a Whiting.
Rusty had 2 Codling.

Nice company, nice trip.