dodders
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After much deliberation I decided on an evening trip to my local beach last night. Arrived just in time for low water and there were a couple of other anglers set up in the centre of the beach. That was fine as I had decided to try over to the left near some rocks.
Two sizeable baits out, combinations of mackerel, sandal and squid and sat back to wait, and wait....!
I would have been happy with anything for the species hunt but nothing was playing ball. After 4 hrs I was forced to move towards the centre of the beach as the tide was about to force me up the wall behind
Changed one of the rods to a scratching flapper rig with size 6 hooks and bits of sandal, mack & squid on a hook each. Bites straight away....lots of pouting which was fine and at least something was happening and a species for the hunt. Several pouting later and a proper bite on the same rod. This felt solid and turned out to be a small-eyed ray of about 2lbs on a 3/4" section of eel.
Next to take the small sandal section was a dogfish
No action at all to the bigger baits, and all the fish came to a small section of sandal, ignoring squid and mackerel strips. I ran out of sand-eels as I only had 4 to start with so packed up an hour before high water.
Two sizeable baits out, combinations of mackerel, sandal and squid and sat back to wait, and wait....!
I would have been happy with anything for the species hunt but nothing was playing ball. After 4 hrs I was forced to move towards the centre of the beach as the tide was about to force me up the wall behind
Changed one of the rods to a scratching flapper rig with size 6 hooks and bits of sandal, mack & squid on a hook each. Bites straight away....lots of pouting which was fine and at least something was happening and a species for the hunt. Several pouting later and a proper bite on the same rod. This felt solid and turned out to be a small-eyed ray of about 2lbs on a 3/4" section of eel.
Next to take the small sandal section was a dogfish
No action at all to the bigger baits, and all the fish came to a small section of sandal, ignoring squid and mackerel strips. I ran out of sand-eels as I only had 4 to start with so packed up an hour before high water.
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