mountbatten pier

[eves]

up early today, no decent bait so decided to pop down the pier with a couple of lures, 4th cast i got a smashing pollock. only just over 2 lbs but plenty for tea tonight.
great change from the recent blank sessions.

 

[Trampster]

up early today, no decent bait so decided to pop down the pier with a couple of lures, 4th cast i got a smashing pollock. only just over 2 lbs but plenty for tea tonight.
great change from the recent blank sessions.

Well done Eves!

I was down there last year and cast out some big baited feathers in a direction I don't usually cast towards. I had my first Pollock there, but undersized so returned for another day. Got snagged & lost the feathers a few casts later, so that ended that!

 

[Wolf]

Nice catch mate

 

[eves]

well against advice i decided to have a bash at beesands. well that was a waste of time. left at 3.30 this morning. fished till 11.00. and not a bite.

 

[chesilpete]

well against advice i decided to have a bash at beesands. well that was a waste of time. left at 3.30 this morning. fished till 11.00. and not a bite.

Lolololololololololololololololol

 

[Trampster]

Sorry to hear that Eves. Better luck next time.

 

[Wolf]

Pity ypu blanked tight lines for next mate

 

[Muskins]

Pete you're a hard man for all those lol's
musky

 

[chesilpete]

Pete you're a hard man for all those lol's
musky

Its tough love musky...... you ask if a place is worth fishing loads of people take the time to say NO its shite......

Soooooo you go there n blank! SURPRISE!!

That means you get lololololololololololololololololololol.

 

[eves]

Its tough love musky...... you ask if a place is worth fishing loads of people take the time to say NO its shite......

Soooooo you go there n blank! SURPRISE!!

That means you get lololololololololololololololololololol.

not me, if i catch a fish i love to tell people.

 

[Taff]

only ever fished off mountbatten once, lost so much gear on those poxy rocks I gave up drove round and cast off Elphinstone carpark for a few hours instead and pulled up a couple of wrasse.

it was absolutely hammering it down too, not many fond memories of that day haha.

 

[Trampster]

only ever fished off mountbatten once, lost so much gear on those poxy rocks I gave up drove round and cast off Elphinstone carpark for a few hours instead and pulled up a couple of wrasse.

it was absolutely hammering it down too, not many fond memories of that day haha.

I've been told the trick with Mounbatten Taff, is to always use a grip lead to stop your weight falling down between the rocks.
Rotten bottom helps too as it means you should only lose the weight.
When you reel in, reel in fast with your rod tip up to keep your gear above the snags.
Only lost one set of tackle there in 2 years and we found that the rig I was using (Tackle shop bought) had crap Knots. a 2 year old could have done a better job.

 

[Tatunka joe]

I've been told the trick with Mounbatten Taff, is to always use a grip lead to stop your weight falling down between the rocks.
Rotten bottom helps too as it means you should only lose the weight.
When you reel in, reel in fast with your rod tip up to keep your gear above the snags.
Only lost one set of tackle there in 2 years and we found that the rig I was using (Tackle shop bought) had crap Knots. a 2 year old could have done a better job.

You only lost one set in 2 years cause u only fish once every two years

 

[Taff]

I've been told the trick with Mounbatten Taff, is to always use a grip lead to stop your weight falling down between the rocks.
Rotten bottom helps too as it means you should only lose the weight.
When you reel in, reel in fast with your rod tip up to keep your gear above the snags.
Only lost one set of tackle there in 2 years and we found that the rig I was using (Tackle shop bought) had crap Knots. a 2 year old could have done a better job.

good shout, dont fancy losing weights every time I cast out mind. saying that it was blowin a hoolie when I went so probably didn't help!

 

[Wolf]

Nice one mate

 

[Ianpick]

When I used to fish Samphire Hoe regularly I used my own home made wired leads.
They had four soft wire, 6" or 7" wires bent at 90° to the lead. This gave a spread of 12/14" to stop the lead dropping between the rocks, dumper trucks, big lumps of steel etc that makes Samphire Hoe such a snaggy venue.
The soft wire, usually the armouring of off-cuts of armoured cable, would bend out if I tightened down to the lead and then pulled out of the rocks and wound in fast.
On quite a few occasions I didn't lose a single lead. 30lb mainline and 80lb needed as well.

 

[Trampster]

When I used to fish Samphire Hoe regularly I used my own home made wired leads.
They had four soft wire, 6" or 7" wires bent at 90° to the lead. This gave a spread of 12/14" to stop the lead dropping between the rocks, dumper trucks, big lumps of steel etc that makes Samphire Hoe such a snaggy venue.
The soft wire, usually the armouring of off-cuts of armoured cable, would bend out if I tightened down to the lead and then pulled out of the rocks and wound in fast.
On quite a few occasions I didn't lose a single lead. 30lb mainline and 80lb needed as well.

Using 28Lb mono & 70Lb shock leader on all beach F/S reels already.

In one of Billy Fishing Youtube videos he mentioned a South African idea of using plain leads drilled to take stiff 3mm Strimmer line. I planned to make some, but I really need my drill press & vice to carefully drill the Leads, and that's across the channel until we get over there again.

 

[Ianpick]

I've drilled leads, what a PITA.
The flutes of the bits clog up constantly.
I cut some lead ingots up on my bandsaw recently to make them small enough to go in the smelting pot and it cut a lot better than I was expecting it to.