Sunday 24 June 2012

Sometimes you have to give in

During the hot spell I went to Whitehaven Pier with some freshly dug Lugworm for what ever was on the bottom a nice Plaice or Bass well after 2 casts nothing yet the mackerel where in and I had to bite the bullet and chuck the feathers out and I'm glad I did in all had 20 mackerel in the end with the small ones going back without being touched I kept the rest for tea and bait. I'm on the lookout for a cheap bait freezer.

What a day

This is from 2 weeks ago.  Having just sold my old phone, I bought 2 Shakespeare Salt FDX reels And looked forward to fishing Maryport Pier the next day. Typical after some lovely weather when I decide  to go it changes for the worse. Got up at 4:30am as high tide was around 9:30am, turned up at the pier and forgot my bait great start went home and picked it up. I managed to get going and decided to try out one of my new reels well I only put my rod tip and bag down for 1 second and bang a gust of wind had sent my rod bag and tip into the Solway, thankfully the tide was on the way in so it didn't drift away from the pier, I managed to hook up the bag and retrieve my rod. Then through my own fault I overfilled the reels and it took me 30mins to sought out the line including losing a rig and shockleader. And almost losing my keys. 
 But the fishing was not to bad all small fish but at least I had fun.