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Sea Angling for Spearos

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Looks like a French partridge to me, my brother used to rear them. Some would escape, so we still have a few around the village - one laid an egg on my vegetable patch a few years ago. Pheasants are usually reared for shooting and fed by gamekeepers at least part of the year, so they are often used to people. In recent years, some have been releasing purchased pheasants just a few days before shooting them -- most people seem to be pretty uncomfortable with that. A lot of people blame the bankers (even before they destroyed the world economy): cash-rich and wanting a quick, convenient, easy thrill and big bags without too much effort or requiring too much skill. So, for pheasants at least, the banking crisis is probably a good thing.

From what I understand, pheasants & rabbits were introduced into Britain by the Romans (although many pheasants are imported from France now). The TV program QI (which has proven quite unreliable in its "facts") recently claimed that rabbits were first introduced (relatively recently) by the Normans - as a domestic food source (kept in warrens/conygre); apparently though this is untrue*. I was brought up to understand that hares are native, although I see some internet sources now claim the Romans introduced them too (seems less likely to me). Ah, this link reckons the mountain hare is native but the Roman's introduced the brown hare (I still find that hard to believe). Ah...and this link confirms that the Brown hare precedes the Romans by tens of thousands of years. Happy again Although hares are few and far between here now.

ADM your son is going to be an awesome angler.

*http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4439339.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1487787/Romans-introduced-the-rabbit.html
 
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Wow, you're a true source of cool info Mr X!! I can never find what I want...

Mart, slightly off topic but there were loads of Parasol Mushrooms over there amongst the bracken before you get to the common (along with the odd pheasant head bobbing up and down out of the cover). Haven't noticed any over here yet.

The boys fishing is coming on. We fished Rosaire (low water landing point) the last hour or so and he told me he had a few bites and even fish on a few times but didn't land any, he's started holding the rod and feeling for bites now as well as plugging if I cast it that bit further for him. He was using the 7ft Bushwhacker with a Shimano Exage 2500 and it seemed to suit quite well with the shorter lighter profile of a plugging rod. Could just about lob 3oz and a squid strip with it. Might have finally found the right rod for a 5 year old to use in confidence!! Shame i'm still a tad worried what will happen to the set up when a decent fish gets hooked, I don't want to see it all heading seaward. Need to trust him more I guess!!

Tomorrow might be out west after a top tip by PM from a local who caught on the lures today. Just need to check the wind out.
 
Andy you need to be a bit careful with Passols if they are not out in the open as "shaggy parasols" like a bit of cover & can be slightly toxic to a minority.
However you can fill you basket in 5 mins from L'ancrese common with delicious Parasols right now!
 
No diving for me this year as gear is still with the ex but fishing I've managed a little.

I took a trip down to Bergen this weekend to meet old fishing buddies and go after the sweet little Chimaera, blackmouth cat shark and some spurdoggy bonuses.

Fished with my mate Lasse at the main port area in central Bergen known as 'Bontelabo'. Result was first fish I landed was My first Chimaera after that I got a spurdog per cast til about midnight, no catshark tho... was absolutely knackered! My mate lasse got a pile of doggies too and a small ling. unfortunately we couldn't get the largest specimens on land as we had no net with us and we couldn't find the ladder rofl

anyway here's some pics...




 
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Hope they're good eating! Sounds like yall had fun catching! :friday
 
Weyhey mate nice to have you back on line & catching fish too!
 
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Hope they're good eating! Sounds like yall had fun catching! :friday
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Catch and release it was... Spurdog is tasty and plentiful here but in global terms its more endangered than tigers etc.

as for the Chimaera... I kissed it and it tasted a bit weird rofl
probably due to its city harbour environment... brave man that eats anything from there!

Had an absolute blast tho, just for the sport.
 
Easter break to Fuerteventura booked . Havn't been for a couple of years but I know the island well as used to go out fairly frequently in years gone by! The main reason for these trips is surf. However would like to do some fishing this trip, as its also about sun and lazy days!

I'm staying opposite the harbour wall in Corralejo and figure I will pack my plugging rod. It can chuck a 3oz lure out so fancy some spinning or some float fishing off the rocks that run along the length of the wall (if anyone is familiar with the area).

Whats the advise re. fishing tactics, species etc from the shore. Any advice, or a suggestion on some likely lures to keep me amused in the evenings?

Cheers.

Come on Mr X! You must have a suitable killer lure for every occasion in that tackle box :t
 
Hi davie , good to hear from you .
Keep in touch , your posts are always a good read .

Regards ,
Dave .
 
Welcome back Davy, we missed you.

Pav on thread too. Not much time at the moment. For catching lures - talk to ADM! I still like to drool at the Maria lures at Veals -- that's at the tip top of what I'm willing to pay for a lure - mackeral, silver & holo, blue-silver finishes. Haven't tried the Bull-something one (slow diving) but looking forward to trying. Also like to drool at MonsterTackle. They have all kinds of interesting lures. Fave's include newer Rapala designs, Heddon (Saltwater) Spooks and those weighted eel things look killer. I always carry weighted gel sandeels now, as they are relatively cheap (3 for £5), don't snag & just clip on.
 
Pav, the last time I visited the Canneries was about 9 years ago, we fished for bream from the breakwater with light float tackle & caught a few around the 2lb mark.
However most guys were catching tiny little fish on roach poles, we tried using a few as live bait but with no luck.
Freshwater fishing is big though, I think all the Islands can offer huge carp & I have read about guys fishing golf course ponds catching 30lb+ fish!
Good luck but you might find the shore fishing pretty tame unless you do some revision or get locale advice.
 
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Ive been out a couple of times in the last few days since the storms died back to a mere gale.

Last night I had 2 pollack on a Zonk 120 about 2lb each, OK but they don't fight much, pretty boring at times when you've had loads but they are fish. I did however change tac to a weightless soft plastic (texas weedless style) which gave me a Brucie Bonus Shiny which went 3-5-12 on the digi scales. one more for the club and has me in 2nd at the moment. Much more fun than polack, he fought well for his size kiting off to one side before head shaking a bit and running hard.

Tonight I had another go and hit a pollack on the first cast on the weightless SP, nowt else seen, quite a bit more wind tonight.

It's the time of year when a biggie on a lure is a real possibility in deeper waters. Not giving up yet!! There's a month and a half to go yet... and My Grand-dads records from 1968 and 1969 have some spots marked for November, December and January with some double figure bass noted...
 
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It is!! I only have part of them. My grans 93 now and had a few "moments" where we think she chucked them all as thought no-one would be interested!! Nightmare. I did get his maps though, A2 size maps of Guernsey with all of the rocks named and drawn in by hand. Magpie scanned them for me on the industrial size scanner at his work before I had to hand them back to my uncle. I still have the book for '68/69 though and also an old book called something like "ancient names for the bays in and around the bailiwick of Guernsey". Useful to work out where he's talking about as most of the records refer to fishing off the rock by it's name, casting towards another rock by it's name or a gully between two rocks, also by their names. I know roughly where he is but need to refer to the maps to work it out exactly.

There's all sorts including a 17lb bass speared below fort Saumarez in 1968 by someone or other.

He had a small stingray off the slipper, loads of bass down the cliffs. Notable though how many plaice come up... All on sandeel as well, none of this fishing worm only though he did use verm quite often.

I plan to type some of it up now we are in quieter months and will share some interesting snippets.

He does have in the book as well all of his boat marks in there with strike marks and tide heights when the heads come uncovered etc, e.g. xxx rock awash at 1.4hrs flood etc. None of this GPS points!!

The shore marks are interesting in particular, you will find very few of them on the FG site!! He didn't rate most of the west coast at all. Just fleeting mentions. Mostly East, North and a few south sometimes with mention of so and so doing well here but he'd not had much luck. Even mention of Len le Page in there. Best of all, some of them state a time of year, tide state and wind direction to fish and some of them refer to December and January for big bass. I'll have to go see if they are still there.
 
Here's a snippet of stuff I wrote down for myself (so I could read it!!). My comments in italics. Sorry but removed names of rocks/marks:

 
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Great stuff Andy but I think it might be wishful thinking to find those bass nowadays?
 
I prefer to call it desperation!!

It's new marks which I have not fished before and hey, why not, it can't hurt to give it a go.

Bit of info for safety and I'll be on the ARCGIS maps tonight to see if I can find the fishing spots. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that there is no longer a sandy patch where there used to be. Things move around a lot. I don't really know the area at all below high water so it's something to experiment with, which is what this year has all been about.

If you told me i'd be catching bass on french soft plastic lures in darkness 12 months ago i'd have called the guys in white suits for you!!
 
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