Went out west with the missus yesterday afternoon.
Dropped the sprogs off at the in laws and then hit the local strand. It looked a bit choppy so I set off to a east facing front I saw on the maps the night before. When we got there is was like glass
As I was walking in about 3 inches of water I stood on a small flat fish... great start I thought
We jumped in with our new gear I had the rubber belt that made a HUGE difference, the missus had her 5.5mm suit... a step up from her 3mm shorty from lidl. And I had my new float http://www.scubastore.com/images/products/media/imersion_09419.jpg which was great to carry the gear but did get annoying with the line getting tangled!! but it did allow us to take a little picnic!
vis was 5-10m and it seemed pretty warm. the area was lovely and we spent 1.5hrs just snorkelling around! I have no doubt that this is a serious fish spot but maybe we just hit it at the wrong time! Plenty of crabs and wrasse but I already have one in the freezer.
As we were snorkelling we were heading out to the headland, we reached there and were suddenly engulfed by minnows, which kept getting thicker and thicker. We sat on some rocks near the surface and had a little picnic and then we say big fish jumping a little offshore. I grabbed me gear and headed for there, opting to pull myself around hte headland as opposed to finning, I got the fright of my life when I stumbled on 4 MASSIVE bass. They split up and I followed them and they did a loop of the headland (which was now covered with the rising tide) and I ended back at the picnic spot, but when I got there I saw dark forms down below a little off the headland in the weed. I took a few dives and saw that there were quite a few pollock down there. I abandoned the bass and went looking for pollock and had some great fun catching them. I was underweighted for that depth so I had limited success. I even saw a flattie swimming with them and shot it. The missus was getting cold so we headed back in and when I got out we saw some action in about 18inches of water near the shoreline, so I hoped in and shot this mullet. Made for a great tea of fresh fish fingers.
The missus took one shot and missed with the polespear and she managed to loose my screw on paralyser tip
The catch, minus a few for the inlaws for babysitting
And some nice mullet fish fingers for tea
Dropped the sprogs off at the in laws and then hit the local strand. It looked a bit choppy so I set off to a east facing front I saw on the maps the night before. When we got there is was like glass
As I was walking in about 3 inches of water I stood on a small flat fish... great start I thought
We jumped in with our new gear I had the rubber belt that made a HUGE difference, the missus had her 5.5mm suit... a step up from her 3mm shorty from lidl. And I had my new float http://www.scubastore.com/images/products/media/imersion_09419.jpg which was great to carry the gear but did get annoying with the line getting tangled!! but it did allow us to take a little picnic!
vis was 5-10m and it seemed pretty warm. the area was lovely and we spent 1.5hrs just snorkelling around! I have no doubt that this is a serious fish spot but maybe we just hit it at the wrong time! Plenty of crabs and wrasse but I already have one in the freezer.
As we were snorkelling we were heading out to the headland, we reached there and were suddenly engulfed by minnows, which kept getting thicker and thicker. We sat on some rocks near the surface and had a little picnic and then we say big fish jumping a little offshore. I grabbed me gear and headed for there, opting to pull myself around hte headland as opposed to finning, I got the fright of my life when I stumbled on 4 MASSIVE bass. They split up and I followed them and they did a loop of the headland (which was now covered with the rising tide) and I ended back at the picnic spot, but when I got there I saw dark forms down below a little off the headland in the weed. I took a few dives and saw that there were quite a few pollock down there. I abandoned the bass and went looking for pollock and had some great fun catching them. I was underweighted for that depth so I had limited success. I even saw a flattie swimming with them and shot it. The missus was getting cold so we headed back in and when I got out we saw some action in about 18inches of water near the shoreline, so I hoped in and shot this mullet. Made for a great tea of fresh fish fingers.
The missus took one shot and missed with the polespear and she managed to loose my screw on paralyser tip
The catch, minus a few for the inlaws for babysitting
And some nice mullet fish fingers for tea
but my car was telling me land temp was 25 which is very high for this area as well. Anyway, I hope to get away early this afternoon in the interest of scientific research into this watch and while I'm at it...sure I might as well do a bit of spearing as well :t
