geejayy
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2023 trip 10, after nearly 2 months of lost mojo.
milford shingle bank , usual spot. 2100.0400.
weather,- dry & hot,hot, hot. slight overcast sky, no wind. has been n/e for it seems like months.
tides, neap, 2100ish high water, moon 1/4 waneing didnt rise till just b4 daybreak.
sea stare , flat as a turd. gin clear, a little weed when tide running but manageable, lots floating.
baits,- frozen, squid, prawn, sandeel.
rigs , single pulley, two hooks flapping with bling, and a dropdown with sml hooks plus a heavy up & over . oh & chucked some feathers about half hartedly hoping for a fresh mackerel but too much weed in the water.
parked up among hoards of cars , despite smallish tide sedge beds seemed almost covered, i think their days are numbered due to the riseing sea levels. i saw a few fishing but most were packing up at this end of the bank. sopke with a guy walking back who said he had seen a mackerel shoal but too far out to cast to, and had had some small bass the day b4.
i set up a rod and flung some feathers about for a cast o three but the floating weed rendered them not very effective so gave up on that and pitched a bivy to keep the sun off.
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milford shingle 14.6.23 by gordon underwood, on Flickr
i set about breaming with small neat baits and hooks for a while catching the inevitable dogfish, later hooking and looseing a bootlace conger when it spun the hook off at the shore,
after dark it was a pleasant clear,calm with with just me and the sounds of the beach. though for a while there was another angler away to my right and i thought i could see a string of lights twinkleing along the shore a somewhere along hordle/tadiford i would guess.
the rest was fairly uneventful, snagged another bootlace, and later a pout about dawn , lost a rig to a snag, had planned on staying to wait out for the flood tide to ease or head for the castle but i rarely stick to this plan , avn't been to the castle for years.
crapfish by gordon underwood, on Flickr
crapfish by gordon underwood, on Flickr
20230615_014618[1] by gordon underwood, on Flickr usual suspects.
milford shingle bank , usual spot. 2100.0400.
weather,- dry & hot,hot, hot. slight overcast sky, no wind. has been n/e for it seems like months.
tides, neap, 2100ish high water, moon 1/4 waneing didnt rise till just b4 daybreak.
sea stare , flat as a turd. gin clear, a little weed when tide running but manageable, lots floating.
baits,- frozen, squid, prawn, sandeel.
rigs , single pulley, two hooks flapping with bling, and a dropdown with sml hooks plus a heavy up & over . oh & chucked some feathers about half hartedly hoping for a fresh mackerel but too much weed in the water.
parked up among hoards of cars , despite smallish tide sedge beds seemed almost covered, i think their days are numbered due to the riseing sea levels. i saw a few fishing but most were packing up at this end of the bank. sopke with a guy walking back who said he had seen a mackerel shoal but too far out to cast to, and had had some small bass the day b4.
i set up a rod and flung some feathers about for a cast o three but the floating weed rendered them not very effective so gave up on that and pitched a bivy to keep the sun off.
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milford shingle 14.6.23 by gordon underwood, on Flickri set about breaming with small neat baits and hooks for a while catching the inevitable dogfish, later hooking and looseing a bootlace conger when it spun the hook off at the shore,
after dark it was a pleasant clear,calm with with just me and the sounds of the beach. though for a while there was another angler away to my right and i thought i could see a string of lights twinkleing along the shore a somewhere along hordle/tadiford i would guess.
the rest was fairly uneventful, snagged another bootlace, and later a pout about dawn , lost a rig to a snag, had planned on staying to wait out for the flood tide to ease or head for the castle but i rarely stick to this plan , avn't been to the castle for years.
crapfish by gordon underwood, on Flickrcrapfish by gordon underwood, on Flickr20230615_014618[1] by gordon underwood, on Flickr usual suspects.
