Kenny84
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- Dec 3, 2021
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- Portsmouth
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- Shore
I have been working in Bournemouth this week so I decided to try a new fishing mark while I was there.
A few rays and a couple of nice turbot have been caught only last week so why not!?
Rays were the target so some nice flowing snoods fishing on the bottom was the order of the day courtesy of a bagnal bar with squid and crab cart (unfortunately I couldn’t get any sand eel) and ragwort on a portsmouth loop rig with a long loop.
Unfortunately the tide conditions didn’t seem ideal, it was a 1.7m low tide and a 1.9m high and tbh the waterline didn’t move for the 5 hours I was there! Flat calm, no wind and a big bright full moon with no clouds.
The first 2 hours went by without so much as a twitch on the rods and the bait untouched so the optimism was on the ebb unlike the tide!
An hour before high I had some little nibbles…… definitely not the Ray I was after but they were welcome. I spent the next hour up to high tide reeling in whiting after whiting. Around 8 all together all under 20cm apart from 1 which was 29cm.
At least it got me off the mark on the species hunt and I have a little bait left so I might get the LRF gear out this weekend and try for the smaller species.
A few rays and a couple of nice turbot have been caught only last week so why not!?
Rays were the target so some nice flowing snoods fishing on the bottom was the order of the day courtesy of a bagnal bar with squid and crab cart (unfortunately I couldn’t get any sand eel) and ragwort on a portsmouth loop rig with a long loop.
Unfortunately the tide conditions didn’t seem ideal, it was a 1.7m low tide and a 1.9m high and tbh the waterline didn’t move for the 5 hours I was there! Flat calm, no wind and a big bright full moon with no clouds.
The first 2 hours went by without so much as a twitch on the rods and the bait untouched so the optimism was on the ebb unlike the tide!
An hour before high I had some little nibbles…… definitely not the Ray I was after but they were welcome. I spent the next hour up to high tide reeling in whiting after whiting. Around 8 all together all under 20cm apart from 1 which was 29cm.
At least it got me off the mark on the species hunt and I have a little bait left so I might get the LRF gear out this weekend and try for the smaller species.
