cap'nhaddock
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I decided to try Preston Beach again, thinking that it must produce some fish eventually, surely?
The last trip there with @Goateeeblank, on a hunt for Gurnard, turned out to be a failure with nothing caught which is unusual for that beach. I was hoping for perhaps a juvenile Small Eyed or Thornback Ray, a Red Mullet or even a Golden Grey Mullet, all species I've caught there before.
The weather forecast was for periods of light rain and a 15mph wind blowing along the beach which turned out to be accurate, I started fishing at about 5:15pm , high tide was at about 7pm, the drizzle started shortly after, the weather eased later and it was quite pleasant by about 9:30 and bright moonlight by 11pm.
I was fishing two flattie rods with 2oz weights and size 4 hooks baited with fish strips, there's never a need here for big casts to catch fish. I was setting up the spinning rod to flick a bait close in when I got the first bite, a Tub Gurnard. From then on the bites came at regular intervals, each time a Gurnard. I messaged @Goateeblank, the determined, but unsuccessful hunter of Gurnards, after high tide to tell him where to catch one by which time I'd just returned the seventh.
I fished on to about 11:15pm with just three more Gurnard on the flattie rods and a small whiting and a pout both on the spinning rod and baits fished close in.
Total distance walked from the car to the fishing spot and return to the car, for 12 fish, about 240 yards.
The last trip there with @Goateeeblank, on a hunt for Gurnard, turned out to be a failure with nothing caught which is unusual for that beach. I was hoping for perhaps a juvenile Small Eyed or Thornback Ray, a Red Mullet or even a Golden Grey Mullet, all species I've caught there before.
The weather forecast was for periods of light rain and a 15mph wind blowing along the beach which turned out to be accurate, I started fishing at about 5:15pm , high tide was at about 7pm, the drizzle started shortly after, the weather eased later and it was quite pleasant by about 9:30 and bright moonlight by 11pm.
I was fishing two flattie rods with 2oz weights and size 4 hooks baited with fish strips, there's never a need here for big casts to catch fish. I was setting up the spinning rod to flick a bait close in when I got the first bite, a Tub Gurnard. From then on the bites came at regular intervals, each time a Gurnard. I messaged @Goateeblank, the determined, but unsuccessful hunter of Gurnards, after high tide to tell him where to catch one by which time I'd just returned the seventh.
I fished on to about 11:15pm with just three more Gurnard on the flattie rods and a small whiting and a pout both on the spinning rod and baits fished close in.
Total distance walked from the car to the fishing spot and return to the car, for 12 fish, about 240 yards.
