cap'nhaddock
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At last! a Gar, No. 35
Started fishing at just after eight a.m. which was about high tide; float fishing one rod in the hope of the elusive Gar and fishing small hooks down the side to see if there was anything but mini Pout and Pollack.
Nothing happened on the float for about an hour and a half when I noticed the rod tip pull down, the float was scudding off on the surface so it was likely to be a Gar.
It's odd that the Gar chooses to fight it out on the surface while others dive deep.
Sure enough a Gar was swung onto the pier, species No. 35
The other rod produced a great many Pout, a few Tompots, a few Wrasse and some mini Black Bream, the mini Pollack seem to have cleared off.
I took some time out to go and find some lunch, quite a few mullet cruising about but I know well enough not to bother when they are in that mood.
There is a seal resident at the start of the Stone Pier, it was hauled up on the small shingle beach, it slid away in the water as soon as I got my camera out of my pocket so it's a photo of a seal splashing rather than the seal on the shingle. They seem to be showing up in places they were never seen before.
I returned to the end to try float fishing again, I'd like more Gar for the bait freezer but nothing was interested; at about three I said the the chap I was fishing alongside, who was desperate to get a mackerel for his tea, that I'd be packing up in a few minutes to beat the traffic out of town.
At that the float disappeared, the fish stayed deep so it was either a Pollack or a Mackerel.
It turned out to be a nice sized Mackerel which normally I would have taken home as bait but which has gone home for tea with the chap who was casting envious eyes on it.
I did say I can always catch more for bait sometime; that might have been a bit rash to say that, the score for Gar and Mackerel from the pier all day was one of each, the ones I caught, it's poor for this time of year.
Of course I fished on to try to get more mackerel, hoping a shoal had turned up but it hadn't,
and I got snarled up in traffic on the way out of town.
Started fishing at just after eight a.m. which was about high tide; float fishing one rod in the hope of the elusive Gar and fishing small hooks down the side to see if there was anything but mini Pout and Pollack.
Nothing happened on the float for about an hour and a half when I noticed the rod tip pull down, the float was scudding off on the surface so it was likely to be a Gar.
It's odd that the Gar chooses to fight it out on the surface while others dive deep.
Sure enough a Gar was swung onto the pier, species No. 35
The other rod produced a great many Pout, a few Tompots, a few Wrasse and some mini Black Bream, the mini Pollack seem to have cleared off.
I took some time out to go and find some lunch, quite a few mullet cruising about but I know well enough not to bother when they are in that mood.
There is a seal resident at the start of the Stone Pier, it was hauled up on the small shingle beach, it slid away in the water as soon as I got my camera out of my pocket so it's a photo of a seal splashing rather than the seal on the shingle. They seem to be showing up in places they were never seen before.
I returned to the end to try float fishing again, I'd like more Gar for the bait freezer but nothing was interested; at about three I said the the chap I was fishing alongside, who was desperate to get a mackerel for his tea, that I'd be packing up in a few minutes to beat the traffic out of town.
At that the float disappeared, the fish stayed deep so it was either a Pollack or a Mackerel.
It turned out to be a nice sized Mackerel which normally I would have taken home as bait but which has gone home for tea with the chap who was casting envious eyes on it.
I did say I can always catch more for bait sometime; that might have been a bit rash to say that, the score for Gar and Mackerel from the pier all day was one of each, the ones I caught, it's poor for this time of year.
Of course I fished on to try to get more mackerel, hoping a shoal had turned up but it hadn't,
and I got snarled up in traffic on the way out of town.
