Had1
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After a good session Thursday night ,similar conditions yesterday saw me and a mate decide to head back to the same spot near Herne Bay again .
Didn't have any live crabs this time but a few frozen and some squid.
Wind was quite strong but the water pretty clear. Lovely warm evening again. Set up 1 pulley rig with a single hook and crab bait and a pennel squid on the 2nd .
Soon realised fishing 2 rods was going to be hard work as the weed was savage , ripping the lead out pretty quickly to begin with, and covering the bait soon after . Went through this process about an hour of casts where I was reeling in one rod , chuck the other out, then by the time id baited the other rod the one in the water was ready to reel in again , as dragging downtide lol
So hard work . Slightly bigger tide had really made it difficult.
Then just on dusk with high at 2140 I had a great pull down bite on frozen crab, thought must be a smoothy, but after a few seconds of it hugging the bottom realised it was a ray! Up came a lovely marked fish with a massive long tail !!
After plugging away through the difficult conditions for another hour or so with nothing else to show between us , it seemed like that was going to be it.. then I had a small thornie of around a pound that I didn't know was on under a mass of weed lol !!
We were about to pack up then I had a great run on crab and had a smoothy take me about 50 yards along the beach using the weed and tide to bully me . Landed a cracking fish of about 8 or 10lbs . No picture as would of had to carry it back a long way .
This gave my mate the enthusiasm to have a couple more casts and he landed his own one of about 8lbs really bright stars all over it !! So happy days both had something again and got home about 1 so not bad compared to 3 the night before haha.
I'll see if he'll let me post his pic ...camera shy I've tried getting him to join on here but not his thing.
Didn't have any live crabs this time but a few frozen and some squid.
Wind was quite strong but the water pretty clear. Lovely warm evening again. Set up 1 pulley rig with a single hook and crab bait and a pennel squid on the 2nd .
Soon realised fishing 2 rods was going to be hard work as the weed was savage , ripping the lead out pretty quickly to begin with, and covering the bait soon after . Went through this process about an hour of casts where I was reeling in one rod , chuck the other out, then by the time id baited the other rod the one in the water was ready to reel in again , as dragging downtide lol
So hard work . Slightly bigger tide had really made it difficult.
Then just on dusk with high at 2140 I had a great pull down bite on frozen crab, thought must be a smoothy, but after a few seconds of it hugging the bottom realised it was a ray! Up came a lovely marked fish with a massive long tail !!
After plugging away through the difficult conditions for another hour or so with nothing else to show between us , it seemed like that was going to be it.. then I had a small thornie of around a pound that I didn't know was on under a mass of weed lol !!
We were about to pack up then I had a great run on crab and had a smoothy take me about 50 yards along the beach using the weed and tide to bully me . Landed a cracking fish of about 8 or 10lbs . No picture as would of had to carry it back a long way .
This gave my mate the enthusiasm to have a couple more casts and he landed his own one of about 8lbs really bright stars all over it !! So happy days both had something again and got home about 1 so not bad compared to 3 the night before haha.
I'll see if he'll let me post his pic ...camera shy I've tried getting him to join on here but not his thing.
