Saturday, 23 July 2011

Five'fer - 23rd July 2011

Planned an early start to Dorset this morning, left the house at 2:45 and arived at my mark with light just beginning to break. I started off with a feed shallow and had fish bump it on my first three casts but no solid takes. There was quite a bit of surface activity going on though so I clipped on a "Z Claw" in  blue mackerel and chucked it out.
First cast and a couple of spashes at it before a solid take and quickly had bass number one on the rocks....15 minutes later and a repeat performance, and then a third on the next cast. It was still only just getting light now as the pic below shows


Carried on for another half an hour but by now the tide had picked up, it does this over low on this mark and for an hour either side it really belts through, and i've noticed the fish go off at this point. So I moved on 100 yards or so, where the rip is a little further out working on the theory the fish may be in slack water inside. First cast here and in again, with the best fish of the day, around 2.5lb.




By now the sun was up and with 4 fish I chilled out for half an hour, watching the gannets diving a few hundred yards off and smoking a fag or two.

Time for change now so I started with the SP's, flicking an unweighted "Do Live Stick" into the tide and letting it swing around before twitching it back. These things are amazing, they flutter as they sink slowly then really dart around with the slightest twitch. I missed a couple of hits on this before landing another fish around 1.5lbs.



With the tide starting to flood and with the sun getting higher the fish switched off and that was that for the session...not exactly a red letter day but maybe a slight shade of pink by my standards..even if the fish were on the small side.

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