Fishing - Anybody doing any ?

In brighter sun, often you need to go deeper. The smaller fish (and squid etc) don't like being illuminated, so they find holes or go deeper to reduce the light levels.
The predator fish then follow...
 
First blank of the trip this morning, lost a smoothy about 30 mins into the session then the seaweed arrived so I packed up, back down there this evening.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
How is peoples luck with the current heat wave?

I remember the hottest days being very hit n miss when it came to course fishing.
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I assume you mean carp fishing? Heat/sun is good... get the dog biscuits out and catch them off the top. That carp pic I posted was off the top last summer
 
cainer said:
First blank of the trip this morning, lost a smoothy about 30 mins into the session then the seaweed arrived so I packed up, back down there this evening.
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You should try some rock fishing.. rather than sitting on the beach. For Wrasse etc you only need to drop down the front of the rocks..
 
cainer said:
I assume you mean carp fishing? Heat/sun is good... get the dog biscuits out and catch them off the top. That carp pic I posted was off the top last summer
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Course fishing in general. I find that up to around 30 degrees carp would quite happily go into a frenzy for anything that floats but when it gets to the sort of temps we have had the last few days down south, my experience has been hit and miss.

The carp are there on the surface but sometimes they don't take anything all day and just cruse around.
 
NickK said:
You should try some rock fishing.. rather than sitting on the beach. For Wrasse etc you only need to dropping, down the front of the rocks..
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Nah, I prefer fish that fight back :)
the average stamp smoothy down here will have your rod out the tripod and heading into the sea in the blink of an eye, I've only been fishing with 1 rod because of that
im not going to fish tonight, high tides around midnight and we've got quite a stiff wind blowing straight into the beach, im sure the sea's going to be loaded with weed so im at the bar instead :D
 
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i ended up with 6 smoothy's, 3 around the 5lb mark and 3 around 8-9lb, shame the bigger ones didnt come out to play,
also i stopped into the tackle shop on my way home to check what the ray was, they think it was probably a baby blonde ray, but its hard to say when they are so small
 
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met up with my folks a week earlier than was planned, so I now have my old flyrods, reels and even my old spinning reel.. Shakespeare Omni 035 series 2000.
 
maccapacca said:
What rig and good size are you using?
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pully rig with a 5/0 sakuma circle hook, first time ive tried the hooks and im a bit unsure of them, the fish i caught were well hooked but i lost as many as i caught, last night i had 4 strong takes but only landed one :/
(the ray was caught on a size 2 circle hook)
 
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caught a small chubb, some rudd and a small jack on the fly yesterday evening. It was so warm and the flys were getting taken off the water so i went back to get my fly rods.

Well worth it!

After hooking a few ambitious rudds, i spotted a pike eyeing up my fish as i reeled them in. Switched to my heavier rod and cast out a chunky fly which looks a little like a perch and BAM, a little pike no more than 3lb hit it like a ton of bricks!
 
Avenged7Fold said:
caught a small chubb, some rudd and a small jack on the fly yesterday evening. It was so warm and the flys were getting taken off the water so i went back to get my fly rods.

Well worth it!

After hooking a few ambitious rudds, i spotted a pike eyeing up my fish as i reeled them in. Switched to my heavier rod and cast out a chunky fly which looks a little like a perch and BAM, a little pike no more than 3lb hit it like a ton of bricks!
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:D

Will have to relearn to cast again.. now have the old #4 and favourite #8-9 (Shakespeare Raidal Glider Fly - was my first fly rod) that I want to use for sea fishing..
 
Ok decided to get a spinning rod for boat/close shore rock/pier use. Now my rod stable is:

50lb 7'5 Fladen Maxximus Sea Range - Shark/Conger/Tope downtide, I'll change the guides on this and replace the tip with a roller tip at the same time.. (this is more heavy 30-50lb)
20lb 7' Uglystik Excel Boat - Offshore downtide bait, wrecking (I'll use this for pirks)
6-10oz (20lb) 9'6 Agility Uptide - Offshore uptide/downtide bait & wrecking (I'll use this for lures), can cast off shore too
20-50g 8' Agility Sea Spin - rock shore/off shore boat (rod is basically able to take black bream, mackerel, dogfish etc), this is the new rod - at only 224g rod weight (the sea spin literally doesn't have any cork or EVA padding.. just a rubberised grip) I can use this all day long whilst the bait rods are out..
#8-9 Glider Fly - shore/specialist boat, I could go offshoring but the casting makes it difficult on public charter boats
#4 Milbro - think rocks and shore, even light weight lures (fly fishing is the original LRF!)

I think that pretty much covers every point :)
 
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And the new rod & reel arrived today (I was expecting it next week):
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This is my 20-50g (1-2oz) spinning rod & reel.. yes that's the handle (1cm diameter) and reel seat. 224g rod & 310g reel. The reel is not bad for £20 with 6Kg drag.
 
yeah i saw that thismorning, thats a stones throw from where i caught mine a couple of weeks back, its a pretty amazing sight
 
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