South East Proving a point, kind of!

[Shirleycodlin]

Back out early again this morning.
Fished Dungeness point 5,30 till 7am.
First cast with a single worm bait and a sea rat was instantly hooked.
Ok, point proven. I can still catch fish!
Mind you, I sort of knew that a sea rat was more or less guaranteed!
With that done, I swapped over to a live bait rig.
Out of curiosity and no bite, I wound in after 5 minutes to find the bait stripped.
What to do?
I really did not fancy targeting sea rats all morning, but as I was only armed with frozen blacks, fishing a mackerel head close in was not an option.
I stuck with the live bait rig. Unfortunately, the bait got stripped immediately.
I went back to the small hook rig to catch a sea rat that way.
Impossible.
Not a clue what was down there, but bait was instantly stripped. Not a bite at all!
I had a pod of porpoises working about 100yds Infront of me and a seal to the left of me, so there must have been some fish out there for them to be feeding on?
Before to long it was time to go .
Just one of those mornings I guess.

 

[Action Man]

Unlucky Shirl, I always found the velvet swimmers to be a nuisance down dungy in the summer months, also spiders but from your report and experience I’m guessing you think its something else other than crabs?

 

[Cfish]

Unlucky Shirl, I always found the velvet swimmers to be a nuisance down dungy in the summer months, also spiders but from your report and experience I’m guessing you think its something else other than crabs?

Piranha pouts???

 

[Valleyboy]

Sea lice?

 

[Cfish]

Sea lice?

Reckon you might be right mate!!! I did think that but don't know much about them

 

[ouchthathurt]

When fishing Pett Level, I can see dungeness power station clear as a bell on the other side of the bay, (admittedly quite a few miles away!) I often find the baits quickly stripped, usually pick up a velvet swimmer when it’s getting bad. Quite a few spiders in the bay too, but they tend to snip the hook off too.

 

[Shirleycodlin]

Shrimp or bait fish would be my guess.
When the shrimps are in force you sometimes foul hook them!

 

[Warby72]

Shrimp or bait fish would be my guess.
When the shrimps are in force you sometimes foul hook them!

Shrimps would be my bet.