Highlands Back on the rocks - Chapter 2.

[Skaterboy]

We were down at Neist Point by dawn this morning and when we arrived there was a strong wind and the rain was hammering down. After a careful walk over the slippery wet rocks we got down onto a sheltered ledge and after seeing gannets diving just off the rocks I had a go for some mackerel for fresh bait. I was straight into them and soon had 20 fish in the bucket. My favourite pollack method at this deep mark is mackerel baited jellyworm fished deep and slow and I soon had 4 nice fish between 2 and 3 pounds. The next fish felt very different and much bigger and after a hard fight I netted a spurdog of 6lb 12oz, a species I've caught a few times on the baited lure. It wasn't a one off today though and the next two fish were spurdogs of 11lb 8oz and 9lb, great fun on the lure rod. As the fish were taking a moving bait they were all lip hooked, otherwise the fish would have bitten through the mono trace. I spent the rest of the session alternating between lure fishing and bottom fishing with big mackerel baits and caught more pollack and spurdogs. The rain stopped after a couple of hours and by the end of the day it was 20 degrees and sunny. The final tally for the day was 9 spurdogs including fish of 11lb 8oz, 9lb 4oz, 9lb and 8lb 8oz, 7 pollack between 2 and 3 lbs and 20 mackerel. Five of the spurs were caught on baited lures. Most of the spurdogs had sea lice on them, something I've rarely seen before.

 

[Wolf]

Great catch, piccys and write up well done mate ??????

 

[Ollieollie]

Excellent session there for you skates!! Nice report mate ????

 

[Thrasher]

Well done sounds like a proper entertaining session. Some nice spurdogs.

Re the sea lice, any salmon farms nearby?

 

[John Mitchell]

Great session, nice pictures mate , well done

 

[Skaterboy]

Great catch, piccys and write up well done mate ??????

Excellent session there for you skates!! Nice report mate ????

Great session, nice pictures mate , well done

Thanks lads. Much appreciated.

 

[Skaterboy]

Well done sounds like a proper entertaining session. Some nice spurdogs.

Re the sea lice, any salmon farms nearby?

Thanks Thrasher. The nearest is about 3 miles away but there's a lot more salmon farms around the Skye coast.

 

[Redneck Dek]

Love that place?
Great report lad?

 

[Thrasher]

Thanks Thrasher. The nearest is about 3 miles away but there's a lot more salmon farms around the Skye coast.

Sea lice soup.

 

[Redneck Dek]

Sea lice soup.

There’s boats at Dunvegan that service the cages!

 

[Skaterboy]

Love that place?
Great report lad?

Thanks Dek. It is a special place, though the fishing isn't as good as it was before the spurdogs made a comeback.

 

[Eddie t]

Another great read and report fella keep them coming........