Ianpick
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Fished three hours before high water at the old lifeboat house in Totland Bay.
I should have packed up and gone somewhere else after the first two casts came back with no hooks but I was determined to catch a fish at this particular mark so I persevered.
I eventually lost a total of six hooks.
About half an hour before high, as I was reeling in, the other rod showed a classic slack line bite. The line just fell onto the seawall, result.
I picked the rod up, pointed it in the direction of the line and wound in hard.
After 20 or so revs of the spool I felt resistance as the weight bounced over the sea bed. "Have I lost it?!"
No, the line went slack again, so again I wound in, fish on!!
It had been a decent cast so it took a while to bring it in but eventually I saw it, bass.
I don't carry scales but I estimate it was in the region of 12/14
Maybe even made the pound mark.
I should have packed up and gone somewhere else after the first two casts came back with no hooks but I was determined to catch a fish at this particular mark so I persevered.
I eventually lost a total of six hooks.
About half an hour before high, as I was reeling in, the other rod showed a classic slack line bite. The line just fell onto the seawall, result.
I picked the rod up, pointed it in the direction of the line and wound in hard.
After 20 or so revs of the spool I felt resistance as the weight bounced over the sea bed. "Have I lost it?!"
No, the line went slack again, so again I wound in, fish on!!
It had been a decent cast so it took a while to bring it in but eventually I saw it, bass.
I don't carry scales but I estimate it was in the region of 12/14
Maybe even made the pound mark.
