Flattie Hunting weekend
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Flattie Hunting weekend
Davey on Sun Nov 07, 2010 4:02 pm
Well I had a weekend pass from "she who must be obeyed", Yipee!
Two nights of fishing,Bliss.
Friday evening found me down at St Helens in search of a Flounder, normally a good spot for them, so I was set up by 6pm. Two hook flappers with plenty of bling and ragworm the chosen bait. It was the 5th of November so there were plenty of fireworks going off everywhere, unfortunately very little was happening out at sea, maybe they were watching the show, by 9pm all I had were a couple smut pups and a solitary pout so decided to move to the Toll Rd seaview, another good spot for Flounder and normally plenty of Bass.
20 minutes I was set up again, the wind was howling along the beach and I was grateful for the beach buddy, soon after the rain started and it poured, By midnight I'd not even had a nibble despite the sea looking perfect, so reluctantly I called it a night.
Saturday: After picking Nick up we were set up At Shanklin by 6pm, this time our Quarry were Sole and Bass, so one rod had size 2 hooks on a sole rig and again Ragworm, the other was either Crab or whole Squid on a pennel.
After casting out I texted the wife to let her know I was set up and then had a little rattle on the worm rod, five minutes later this was followed by a good pull round and I struck, it felt weighty and I was hoping it was a good Sole, it started to put up a fight as it got into shallow water but I was rewarded with a new PB spotted Ray of 3lb 5oz, my twelvth ray of the year.
Also there was a small Pout on the other hook.
Twenty minutes later Nick landed this small Plaice, not big but things were looking good for a fish filled night.
After this initial success things went quiet, with me dropping two good fish because of the small hooks, necessary for the sole, and landing 3 or 4 Pout.
Time was getting on, the tide was nearing high so I decided to drop the worm rod in close at about 30 yards, 20 minutes of nothing then suddenly a good slack line bite and one of our target fish was landed, a Sole going exactly a pound
High water arrived and what few bites we were getting stopped totally, so at 11.30pm we decided to move to the other end of the esplanade to fish the tide down.
The tide turned about 00.15am, initially nothing then 00.45am I get a rattle on the worm rod, followed by more so eventually I struck and in came these two small plaice.
After that it seemed to kick off, and so did the weather with heavy rain thunder and lightening around me I managed two bag a school Bass just under size another small Plaice and loads of good sized Pout.
By 3.30am basically out of bait we decide to call it a night. A good nights fishing, the fireworks were great, but couldn't compare to the electrical storm layed on by mother nature.
Two nights of fishing,Bliss.
Friday evening found me down at St Helens in search of a Flounder, normally a good spot for them, so I was set up by 6pm. Two hook flappers with plenty of bling and ragworm the chosen bait. It was the 5th of November so there were plenty of fireworks going off everywhere, unfortunately very little was happening out at sea, maybe they were watching the show, by 9pm all I had were a couple smut pups and a solitary pout so decided to move to the Toll Rd seaview, another good spot for Flounder and normally plenty of Bass.
20 minutes I was set up again, the wind was howling along the beach and I was grateful for the beach buddy, soon after the rain started and it poured, By midnight I'd not even had a nibble despite the sea looking perfect, so reluctantly I called it a night.
Saturday: After picking Nick up we were set up At Shanklin by 6pm, this time our Quarry were Sole and Bass, so one rod had size 2 hooks on a sole rig and again Ragworm, the other was either Crab or whole Squid on a pennel.
After casting out I texted the wife to let her know I was set up and then had a little rattle on the worm rod, five minutes later this was followed by a good pull round and I struck, it felt weighty and I was hoping it was a good Sole, it started to put up a fight as it got into shallow water but I was rewarded with a new PB spotted Ray of 3lb 5oz, my twelvth ray of the year.
Also there was a small Pout on the other hook.
Twenty minutes later Nick landed this small Plaice, not big but things were looking good for a fish filled night.
After this initial success things went quiet, with me dropping two good fish because of the small hooks, necessary for the sole, and landing 3 or 4 Pout.
Time was getting on, the tide was nearing high so I decided to drop the worm rod in close at about 30 yards, 20 minutes of nothing then suddenly a good slack line bite and one of our target fish was landed, a Sole going exactly a pound
High water arrived and what few bites we were getting stopped totally, so at 11.30pm we decided to move to the other end of the esplanade to fish the tide down.
The tide turned about 00.15am, initially nothing then 00.45am I get a rattle on the worm rod, followed by more so eventually I struck and in came these two small plaice.
After that it seemed to kick off, and so did the weather with heavy rain thunder and lightening around me I managed two bag a school Bass just under size another small Plaice and loads of good sized Pout.
By 3.30am basically out of bait we decide to call it a night. A good nights fishing, the fireworks were great, but couldn't compare to the electrical storm layed on by mother nature.
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Re: Flattie Hunting weekend
kingcrab on Mon Nov 08, 2010 9:05 am
top report again davey
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Re: Flattie Hunting weekend
Tink on Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:20 am
Excellent report Davey 
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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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jazzman on Mon Nov 08, 2010 2:12 pm
nice one mate ill have to target those sole next year when we come over they look a nice fish good report again mate our fish have gone for a little while
but im sure we will enjoy another codlin winter there just starting to show maybe a little small but they are around
but im sure we will enjoy another codlin winter there just starting to show maybe a little small but they are around
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Re: Flattie Hunting weekend
Davey on Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:28 am
jazzman wrote:nice one mate ill have to target those sole next year when we come over they look a nice fish good report again mate our fish have gone for a little while
but im sure we will enjoy another codlin winter there just starting to show maybe a little small but they are around
Yes mate look forward to it, we'll try and get you down Chale this time for some Ray fishing.
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