Cowes 19th March
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Cowes 19th March
Davey on Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:38 pm
Friday and it was pouring with rain, I didn't fancy digging worm in it, or sitting Bassing at my usual spot as its an exposed beach. So after collecting Mackerel, squid and sandeel from Barneys at Cowes I was setup on the beach at Cowes by 7.00pm.
One rod had a 2 hook flapper with mackerel and squid strips in the hope of small stuff cast about 50 yards, the 2nd rod was a clip down with sandeel cast at distance looking for a ray. Cowes is a reasonably deep venue where almost anything can turn up, although envariably it doesn't!
I started getting small rattles from the off on the flapper rig, but to small to strike, finally just before 10pm a slightly better bite and in came the 1st fish, a nice little Pollack.
The small rattles continued as did the rain but I still couldn't connect to anything then about 11.30pm I started to get a nodding on the sandeel at distance, could this be my Ray, striking there was a deffinate weight there. But alas no Ray but a doggie still that was 2 new species for the year.
Around Midnight the rain finally stopped, so I set up my Bass rod also with a running ledger, large mackerel fillet and this was cast very close in, as the Bass wil run very close to shore on a dark night, despite a couple of good knocks By 1am I'd had nothing more, the tide was running hard and the weed was in and the rain was back with vengence, so I moved to Gurnard, a shallower beach but tide and weed are not normally a problem and its a good beach for spotted rays. By 4am I was soaked, tired and with no more fish I called it a night.
One rod had a 2 hook flapper with mackerel and squid strips in the hope of small stuff cast about 50 yards, the 2nd rod was a clip down with sandeel cast at distance looking for a ray. Cowes is a reasonably deep venue where almost anything can turn up, although envariably it doesn't!
I started getting small rattles from the off on the flapper rig, but to small to strike, finally just before 10pm a slightly better bite and in came the 1st fish, a nice little Pollack.
The small rattles continued as did the rain but I still couldn't connect to anything then about 11.30pm I started to get a nodding on the sandeel at distance, could this be my Ray, striking there was a deffinate weight there. But alas no Ray but a doggie still that was 2 new species for the year.
Around Midnight the rain finally stopped, so I set up my Bass rod also with a running ledger, large mackerel fillet and this was cast very close in, as the Bass wil run very close to shore on a dark night, despite a couple of good knocks By 1am I'd had nothing more, the tide was running hard and the weed was in and the rain was back with vengence, so I moved to Gurnard, a shallower beach but tide and weed are not normally a problem and its a good beach for spotted rays. By 4am I was soaked, tired and with no more fish I called it a night.
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Re: Cowes 19th March
h4ppy-chris on Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:44 pm
well thats 2 more than i had today 
top post mate tight lines to ya
top post mate tight lines to ya
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2011 species: plaice, codling, flounder, EEL, Ling, dab, Bass, Starry smut, tope, doggy,
2010 species: Bass Dab Flounder Plaice Rockling Codling whiting coaly scorpion fish tope mackerel Pouting doggy(lsd) huss, thorn back ray
2009 species:mackerel, gurnard, tope, BASS, dab, doggy(lsd), huss, whiting, plaice, eel, flounder, rockling, mullet, ling, thorn back ray ........................CODLING..............
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Re: Cowes 19th March
kingcrab on Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:17 pm
another top post hope the rays are going to land around here soon
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2010species SHORE : codling, tope ,bass ,pouting ,s/e ray, thornback ray , conger eel , lsd ,poor cod ,TURBOT ,whiting, plaice
2011 species SHORE : codling, dab,whiting ,pouting ,LSD , plaice , flounder ,bass , gunard ,
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Re: Cowes 19th March
Tink on Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:43 pm
You put up some really good posts Davey, i may not comment on many but i read them with total interest, keep up the good work boss cos at least one of us on this site is still catching 
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CANT BEAT PUMPING ON THE BEACH WITH THE MISSUS
she lets me keep them in the fridge then
Fish so far in 2010; Codling, Flounder, Plaice, Plaice/Flounder hybrid, And god knows how many LSD i'm KC reg'd, EEL, Whiting. 7LB Thornback Ray, Tope, Bass, Dabs and a lot of hope
2011 Catch: 11LB Thornback Ray, Tope, Whiting, Dab, LSD. and that was it!
2012 Catch: 2 LSD, 1 Dab
All hail the people who man the Boats of the RLNI, real heroes who volunteer to go out in any weather!
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Re: Cowes 19th March
h4ppy-chris on Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:26 pm
i want to move to ISLE OF WIGHT 
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2011 species: plaice, codling, flounder, EEL, Ling, dab, Bass, Starry smut, tope, doggy,
2010 species: Bass Dab Flounder Plaice Rockling Codling whiting coaly scorpion fish tope mackerel Pouting doggy(lsd) huss, thorn back ray
2009 species:mackerel, gurnard, tope, BASS, dab, doggy(lsd), huss, whiting, plaice, eel, flounder, rockling, mullet, ling, thorn back ray ........................CODLING..............
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Re: Cowes 19th March
Tink on Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:35 am
h4ppy-chris wrote:i want to move to ISLE OF WIGHT
baggsy's next door
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CANT BEAT PUMPING ON THE BEACH WITH THE MISSUS
she lets me keep them in the fridge then
Fish so far in 2010; Codling, Flounder, Plaice, Plaice/Flounder hybrid, And god knows how many LSD i'm KC reg'd, EEL, Whiting. 7LB Thornback Ray, Tope, Bass, Dabs and a lot of hope
2011 Catch: 11LB Thornback Ray, Tope, Whiting, Dab, LSD. and that was it!
2012 Catch: 2 LSD, 1 Dab
All hail the people who man the Boats of the RLNI, real heroes who volunteer to go out in any weather!
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