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Sea Angling for Spearos

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Do you know everyone Dave??

Good memory, I have to write stuff down before I leave work so I know what I did the day before... Might be coz I hate my job though...
 
Some more from the archives last night revealed a 19lb cod on 3rd Jan 1969 and one of 7.5lb on the 3rd Aptil 1969. Both from a mark which no longer exists due to several million tons of rubble etc etc, but can still fish that area with a long walk I guess the bottom topography will have changed significantly with the change in tidal patterns due to the tons of rubble etc!! I do hope it gets cold this winter, I feel a cod mission coming on again. Magpie??

Was it a very cold year 1969 someone who was about then (i'm a young'un...).
 
Went for a bit of a drive on saturday. Went to a town called Namsos which is some way north of us.
The harbour area in the town is home to various cartilage fish like spurdogs, velvet bellies, blackmouth catsharks, chimaeras and thornbacks. It is also home to the norwegian blackmouth record of 1.8kg

Having somehow managed to avoid the little pest that is the blacmouth catshark all these years it was my main target.
Unfortunately I picked the day with the worst weather so far. Howlin headwinds and pouring rain made for some unpleasant fishing weather and casting with a 2.5lb t carp rod a bit difficult. I was a little undergunned for the conditions but the mrs. was even worse off with only a spinning rod.


We carried on anyway and I was soon rewarded with my first Blackmouth Catshark. funny little bugger of some 900g. the Mrs. managed a respectable whiting too.


We moved to the thornback area to see if it we could avoid the wind any better but it wasn't any better. I tied on a boom and fished a running tackle but the wind was still killing my range and I kept getting whiting, one of which was over a kilo with a nasty lamprey sucking onto it's flank.
Right after that the boom snapped and the lead clip gave up, sending my sinker to the horizon. I tied on a paternoster and moved back to where I was before and soon had Blackmouth nr. 2,3,4 and on and on..


They were ranging from 900g to 1.3kg some half kilo short of the record. soon the Mrs. had enough of the weather and went for a drive to warm up, get coffee, shower and all that non essential stuff. I switched from mackarel to herring and prawn combos and the bites got more frequent. I drew a fish per cast and was set on breaking the record. approaching midnight i thought I had done it with this little beauty but the numbers only went...


Some time after midnight I got a vicious bite and what seemed like a significantly heavier fish...I was sure I had cracked it this time!
Imagine the dissapointment when the skinniest, most pathetic little shark broke the surface. It became clear where the fight had come from when I lifted it onto the dock tho..


Mr. slimey had destroyed the rig as usual and that was the sign to pack up.
Too bad I never made contact with the big spurdogs or rays but I'll be sure to come back on a more pleasant day
 

This is just like a treasure hunt!
 
A bad day fishing is better than a good at WORK! (and the missus was along too). :friday
 
Well it's been horrid all weekend but I can't not go fishing in a whole weekend. SW7/8 and hammering down so it was try to get the wind behind me for a T-Time session.

It started Ok with a few bits of bait about in the shallows which is always a good sign. Foxfish called me by mistake (too many Andy's in this world eh!!) and was surprised I was out. Whimp!! It was lovely!! :duh

Working the pafex sagat veeeerrrrryyyyy slowly round in the current it was sinking to about 8ft I guess. Water was like thick mud, about 2ft viz to shiny objects like bass turning on my lure!! When I say very slowly one turn of the handle taking about 4 seconds, twitch, sit, 1,2,3......8, start again.

4th cast and whallop, screeeeeeecchhhhhhhhhhh...... Wahay!!

After quite a scrap this lovely bar of silver showed up on top, running a few more times against a tight drag.

here she is!!



52cm and 3-10-4 on the digi scales for the club.

Texting to report the fish done she was bonked on the head as I had an order for a fish. On gutting I was upset as she was starting to roe up. Noted for the rest of the year for fish heavy for length to go back whoever wants what to eat.

Continued to fish and felt the need to try some hard lures for some reason. A balanced Vision 110, half a gram of sticky lead round the mid section had done the trick quite nicely turning it into a suspending/slow riser. The other was a straight forward new lure a Yo-Zuri Crystal minnow, supposedly a suspender and actually pretty close to it. Rose very very slowly and completely horizontal. Good work Yo-Zuri!!

Anyway, no joy with the hard stuff so back on the SP's. Had quite a few plucks but no hookup for a while until I hot a massive pollack. All of 1/4lb I reckon!! Having a larf it was soo small!!

I carried on spurred in the torrents of rain by flashes of silver but they were suspect maybe having seen their mate in trouble. They seem spooky on this mark. I saw at one point 2 separate silver flashes at the lure and after they went I hooked into a fish which turned out to be a pollack. Shame.

by now 2 calls from the nipper and I couldn't put up any more with the when you coming home whingeing so off I went, cold wet and happy!!
 
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It was actually not that bad hunkered down with the wind whistling over my head. Problem was the rain and incoming storm front. I gave up when the fork lightening got too close. Don't want to fry my new rod!!

There's still time for that lunker to show up... big tides shortly...
 
So I had a fish yesterday on an SP so i figured i should go again!!

For some reason even looking at the NW F8 I still decided it was a good idea. it's not raining after all!!

My wife has now accepted that I have a screw loose!!

Anyway, back on the Pafex Sagat, now my favorite lure(!!), hard work to cast it out but managing about 20 yards, wind against tide but the tide was moving well so if I kept the tip down the lure would go with the tide, lift it and the lure went slowly against tide with the wind. nice one. using this to advantage I could get the lure to hold station in the tide. Superb!!

And superb thought a fish when it slammed into the lure about 8 feet out. Pitch darkness. Love it!!!


Unfortunately he went into some weed shortly after hitting the lure and with bootlace wrapped round his face wasn't doing much in the fight department so I got it in quick with a view to release.

I was pleasantly surprised to weigh the old girl at 5-9-8. A new SP PB!! Not that it takes much to increase from yesterdays fish, this one may stand a bit longer. Is that good on an SP? I'm new to it so...



After releasing it and getting my arm rather wet in the process it was even colder than before in the howling NWly so I gave it a few more casts and hit into a pollack. Pollack on that mark signify time to leave!!

had a look at some marks under the lights in the harbours on the way home but no sign of anything so I went home early and here I am!!

So there you go, I now have a new addiction. At least they're cheaper than Zonks!!
 
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Fantastic Andy, dont stop now, cant wait until tomorrow to find out how big that one will be.
 
Not sure she will let me do 3 days in a row... I did say I was going Wednesday night though and no complaints. She's away Thursday and Friday in London leaving me with the nipper so I can take him on Thursday evening if it's not too cold and see if we can get him his first bass, got to be lure caught of course. He's really excited about going again so I hope we can pull it off if the weather holds.
 
I am all a bit overwelmed by your prowess O Mighty One. Nice bass (bigger than I've caught all year) caught in the dark, in a gale of wind, with a soft artificial, in zero vis, your a bloody miracle worker.

Still doesn't tempt me though. If only we had some vis I'd give you some competition.

Dave.
 
Re wind, it can be your friend as well when lure fishing. See this article to make you think a bit. using the wind #1. (advanced lure fishing tech)

I know that not everyone agrees with Keith and Kev's thoughts and practices but reading their writing has made me think about why/what/where etc etc.
 
Here we go again!!

Nah, not really.

The missus is away in the UK for a couple of days so i'm stuck at home with the nipper.

On the plus side he loves his fishing and is hell bent on catching a bass on a lure as well and had asked if we could go since Mummy wasn't here to moan. :blackeye

Marks limited to a 5 year old we headed somewhere with some light to have a try for a pollack (didn't tell him that though...).

He chose one of my hand made bucktails from the bag (a choice of something with 20p of materials or a £30 Japanese tide minnow and he goes for the 20p). Trying to tell me something I reckon...

2nd cast and...



Little so and so. I've fished loads with my homemade lures and had nowt.

this is them btw...



The one he was using was red thread, red painted eyes and red mouth with white "tail".

As I was desperately trying not to be beaten by a 5 year old he told me "that's wrong Daddy, you need to reel slower and stop moving the rod, do it in a straight line". :rcard

I'm gonna have to do something about this boy!! :martial
 

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Aaaah grasshopper...feel the fish BEFORE it strikes.
 
Kudos

I seem to recall Huan writing about using white feather with red heads (prob. for mackeral) some years, I think based on fisheries research (or perhaps experience). I see Henry Gilbey prefers light white and/or silver lures (for bass).

One of my most successful lures was a cheap, rusty, 30+ year old Eddystone eel. A smallish blue & white one - bought because it was cheap when I was child. It sat unused in my old fishing box for 30+ years but when I put in on a hand-line pulled behind my kayak (I figured it would snag less that a plug & it would matter if I lost it) it proved quite successful.

Happy new year all!
 
Anyone see that dude on English tele last night, he was looking for fresh water sharks in Australia.
Anyhow he was shore fishing in the dark & caught what tuned out to be some huge grouper thing ...Strewth mate it was a bigun!
 
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