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Fishing - Anybody doing any ?
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Sorry Cainer will need to postpone the meet up - contract and other bits (namely the mrs wanting me to finish the fence and my back hurts).
However Managed to get myself the last space on a wrecking trip out on the Brighton Diver .. so if something is going to finish my back off .. that's it.
However Managed to get myself the last space on a wrecking trip out on the Brighton Diver .. so if something is going to finish my back off .. that's it.
So boat fish summary - 3 pollack (3Kg fish fillets in the freezer) and two pout.
2 Pollack to sidewinders (one mackerel fire tail, one blue), 1 pollack to a home made jig. One pout to a 400g Norwegian Pirk (larger than the fish) and one pout to the same home made jig that took the pollack.
Got photos but soo tired will sort them out tomorrow.
2 Pollack to sidewinders (one mackerel fire tail, one blue), 1 pollack to a home made jig. One pout to a 400g Norwegian Pirk (larger than the fish) and one pout to the same home made jig that took the pollack.
Got photos but soo tired will sort them out tomorrow.
just back from Selsey,
first day had a Whiting, 2 small Bass and a 18" Smooth-hound
second day just 1 Whiting
third day 1 Whiting, 1 Plaice and 2 Smooth-hound ~14-16"
the Crabs were very active, stripping bait off
oh and i got a nice sun tan as well
tuesday & wednesday was wall to wall sunshine
first day had a Whiting, 2 small Bass and a 18" Smooth-hound
second day just 1 Whiting
third day 1 Whiting, 1 Plaice and 2 Smooth-hound ~14-16"
the Crabs were very active, stripping bait off
oh and i got a nice sun tan as well
tuesday & wednesday was wall to wall sunshine
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Pics from the wrecking trip..
Set off morning..
First fish of the day.. pout on a home made jig (180g) on the 20lb rod, 30lb braid with the spheros..
Decided to switch to the side winders - try the trusty blue holo - 20-30lb uptide rod and multi with 50lb line..
Before switching back to the 20lb rod and fixed spool with the home made lure..
As the fish above ran around like crazy with another caught pollack causing a bit of a tangle. Time to switch to the heavier pirk.. 400g. The tide was probably getting a little strong for 180g - I think 250g is the sweet spot on lures. The 400g really needed a heavier rod .. so out came the 50lb rod and the fixed spool foot is a little loose in the reel seat which means a little adaptor is needed if I want to use it for jigging..
With the 20lb rod (think 12-20 class) the pollack was a good fight, although still a little over gunned (the bend right down to the handle). I had the spheros set to slip line out and it tried a couple of lunges that stripped a small amount of line. Max drag on the spheros is supposedly 9.9Kg so that's 20lb but at the depth of the wrecks the spool is likely to put out more unless you back off..
Sure enough... it awoke the Kracken:
Foul hooked :/ decided to switch back to sidewinders - the blue sidewinder's nose got ripped off on the wreck with a snag:
So switched to a mackerel fire tail (holo) back on the untide setup:
I lost my lovely 14oz (400g) stainless steel pirk :/
The weather remained sunny (although cool wind) all day.. on the way back:
Set off morning..
First fish of the day.. pout on a home made jig (180g) on the 20lb rod, 30lb braid with the spheros..
Decided to switch to the side winders - try the trusty blue holo - 20-30lb uptide rod and multi with 50lb line..
Before switching back to the 20lb rod and fixed spool with the home made lure..
As the fish above ran around like crazy with another caught pollack causing a bit of a tangle. Time to switch to the heavier pirk.. 400g. The tide was probably getting a little strong for 180g - I think 250g is the sweet spot on lures. The 400g really needed a heavier rod .. so out came the 50lb rod and the fixed spool foot is a little loose in the reel seat which means a little adaptor is needed if I want to use it for jigging..
With the 20lb rod (think 12-20 class) the pollack was a good fight, although still a little over gunned (the bend right down to the handle). I had the spheros set to slip line out and it tried a couple of lunges that stripped a small amount of line. Max drag on the spheros is supposedly 9.9Kg so that's 20lb but at the depth of the wrecks the spool is likely to put out more unless you back off..
Sure enough... it awoke the Kracken:
Foul hooked :/ decided to switch back to sidewinders - the blue sidewinder's nose got ripped off on the wreck with a snag:
So switched to a mackerel fire tail (holo) back on the untide setup:
I lost my lovely 14oz (400g) stainless steel pirk :/
The weather remained sunny (although cool wind) all day.. on the way back:
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^^ whilst you had a cold wind i was sunbathing on the beachit was proper T-shirt n shorts weather
made up for the lack of sun tan working in the garden :/ (including the 3 bags of garden rubbish, cutbacks and weeds today!)Squid are about at the moment, Comp at the Marina on the 7th of May
http://www.thetackleboxbrighton.com/index.htm
http://www.thetackleboxbrighton.com/index.htm
Soldato
finally the weather has warmed up in the frozen north and I have cleaned all my tackle ready for a my first trip out fly fishing this season. got a new 5wt rod to try for those stiller summer evenings when they arrive
I may sound a big softie but its 3 upland reservoirs we fish fro brown trout only...and so the snow has only just gone!!
I may sound a big softie but its 3 upland reservoirs we fish fro brown trout only...and so the snow has only just gone!!
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I see Conflex have stopped trading. Late last year apparently, but I just read about it yesterday. A real shame, they made some cracking rods; together with Zziplex and Century, Conflex led the way for years.
hmm that is a shame, any reason given as to what went wrong for them?
EDIT: just seen on their website that they closed 31st March 2015, theres a big thread about it on WSF but from skim reading it i didnt see any reasons as to why they folded
EDIT: just seen on their website that they closed 31st March 2015, theres a big thread about it on WSF but from skim reading it i didnt see any reasons as to why they folded
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be interesting to see the results of todays Squid competition down at Brighton Marina, off down there one day this week to try catch a few,
NickK you have mail
