Fishing - Anybody doing any ?
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The reel is a 1912 Arial Allcocks, believe it or not the Rod is only about 2 years old and was made for me by a very good friend of mine, his website below.
http://www.ajdsplitcanerods.com/
brb, just selling my house.
Not cheap
lol, no not cheap at all, but worth every penny!
I hope to pass them on to my Son at some point and hopefully he will pass them on to his and so on.
just back from Selsey, with the northerly wind we had all week the water was gin clear so didnt catch much off the bottom, just 2 baby smoothys and a whiting,
saw some whitebait splashing near the shore so put some feathers on and ended up with 29 Mackerel, 8-9 small Bass, a couple of Scad and a Garfish!
saw some whitebait splashing near the shore so put some feathers on and ended up with 29 Mackerel, 8-9 small Bass, a couple of Scad and a Garfish!
Nice catches! Very jealous!
Work has been an absolute **** this week so no chance in getting out :/ The Mrs is away sunday IIRC so tempted to go to brighton and lob some feathers/lug/squid before the water chills down..
check the tackle box webisite, last i knew was that the west wall is closed and east wall is only open bays 1-12
Bah.. never mind, think I'll be sorting something out :/
its a shame, this time last year we caught quite a few flatties from there :/
Nice catches - the smooth hounds I got were about the same size as your little one - it may be a big bait but they tuck in regardless!
the first one i caught on Mackeral which i found a bit odd, they were both the same size, pic 1 looks bigger just because theres nothing to judge the size against
word has it that more bays might be opening up in the next few days,
only 1-12 have been open for the past few months but theres talk of it opening up 1-28,
if so then it would be worth a visit and there should be plenty of flatties about, doubt id fancy it on a weekend though
bays 1-29 are now open, apparently 100+ keeper size Plaice were caught from 6 bays yesterday
When out for an afternoon fishing in Tenerife last week. I only caught one stingray of about 10lbs, we had a pair of Amberjacks on the sounder sniffing around our bait but they weren't feeding.
It was weird fishing in 70m of water with hardly any tide, gear was dropping straight to the bottom.
Trolled about a bit, I watched the sounder go from 70m to 600m in the space of about half a mile. We spotted Yellowfin Tuna jumping out the water but no lookups, then when in close to shore to look for Baracuda. One chap caught a small one.
It was weird fishing in 70m of water with hardly any tide, gear was dropping straight to the bottom.
Trolled about a bit, I watched the sounder go from 70m to 600m in the space of about half a mile. We spotted Yellowfin Tuna jumping out the water but no lookups, then when in close to shore to look for Baracuda. One chap caught a small one.
Was out of hayling island last sunday in the solent for whiting, polk, rays etc.. sun, calm.. but tide run in the morning was 18+oz of lead couldn't keep bottom.. later on it was fine with 5oz and the spinning rod.. lots of fish
nice one, got any pics to post?
Sorry not really other than a couple of sunny shots (none of fish).
I was using feathers with a thin slither of squid - pretty much every cast I had something (or lost the bait). Some surprisingly large whiting/polk on the feathers.
Also had a some on the lures (I had a larger bait out and put a lure out from the leader as the tide was strong enough to keep it off the floor).
Just out at the beach for a sneaky afternoon with the father-in-law - just took the Vecelli. Got a small bass (returned) from the surf on lug. Very happy with this rod - nods in the surf but show the little bites too. Managed a crack off with the 30lb braid wind knotting causing the 80lb shock leader and 170g lead to go sailing off into the distance.
As I've been using the little 8ft rod with it's hyperloop 4000FB with large boat fish (wreck pollack+2 large polk at the same time for example)... I figured a little upgrade.. so I now have an Exage 4000FD (with second spool) that I can use - it's all spools but the majority of the rest shares the 'plastic' with the hyper loop but it feels more solid and certainly smoother.
As I've been using the little 8ft rod with it's hyperloop 4000FB with large boat fish (wreck pollack+2 large polk at the same time for example)... I figured a little upgrade.. so I now have an Exage 4000FD (with second spool) that I can use - it's all spools but the majority of the rest shares the 'plastic' with the hyper loop but it feels more solid and certainly smoother.
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