South East Follow your gut feeling - Pett level 24/7/21

[ouchthathurt]

Morning all, just got back from the beach after a quick session over low tide. Got to the beach at 5am, an hour and a half before low water. It was very blustery with a freshening wind, the surf was running nicely. After a quick wander along the sea wall, I noted an area of “quieter water” where the surf didn’t break, so thinking it was a depression in the seabed, I chose to set my stall there. I quickly rigged up my rods and fired out two rods, using 2 hook clipped down rigs with 1/0 hooks and fresh black lug pumped last night. Due to the wind, casting was tricky, but the wind and spiders didn’t put in an appearance so that’s a plus! The rain started chucking it down and the wind increased, then a thunderstorm hit out in the channel. I kept a careful eye on it in case I needed to pack up sharpish, but fortunately it didn’t get any closer. First cast produced the first bass, a schoolie that was quickly returned, with that rod rebaited, I chucked it out again. With that, the second rod produced a large slack liner, and there was a good weight on the end. On beaching, two bass of 49 & 51cm came ashore! After sorting them out, the first rod was nodding, which produced another 48cm bass! With that one returned, both rods were recast and the bites kept coming with another two bass, one of 45cm and a schoolie. They quickly went back and that rod recast. Another slack liner produced another schoolie bass making it 7. I then hooked an eel that rather handily unhooked itself on the tide line, so that rod was packed away, on retrieving the last rod, another bass was on the end, I could see another schoolie splashing around in the surf, but when I waded out to lift it up, the little blighter had gone! Still, never mind! I packed up at 8:30am and headed home. Smashing session! Got more lug pumped too, so may well have another crack tomorrow morning… a lot of dead spider crabs washed up on the shore!

 

[Goatfish]

Great session mate. Well done!

 

[Kine262]

A cracking session! Good dangling and an opportunity spotted and taken. Well done.

 

[Tatunka joe]

Cracking sesh on the silvers mate well done ?

 

[Shirleycodlin]

Great session well done.

 

[Andy2]

Well done cracking l session ??

 

[John Mitchell]

Great stuff well done

 

[bananas]

brilliant session there, well done on all the bass

 

[Redneck Dek]

Nice one lad?

 

[ouchthathurt]

Well I returned this morning to have another go, but the moment I drove out of our road, I knew it wasn’t the same. There wasn’t a breath of air and no rain, despite being forecast! The waterproofs I was wearing were totally redundant! The lug I had pumped yesterday hadn’t fared well in the fridge, being rather milky, the sea was totally flat on an ebbing tide. I chucked out two rods with 2 hook clipped down rigs, baited with said milky lug, and awaited events, within seconds, the rod tip was nodding like a good un, but on retrieval, there was nothing there but a severely tangled rig?!? The other rod was checked and the bait completely gone. With that, I nipped back to the car and got the lug pump, 10mins later and I’ve got some prime fresh black lug, so both rods rebaited, I waded out and cast them both as far as possible, trying to find some deeper water. It was a bit of a scratching session but I managed an eel and a rockling to save the blank. Shows how important the conditions are, as well as the freshest bait you can get hold of.

 

[Trampster]

Brilliant reports & great photos! Well done Ouchy! ??