Things on the fishing front have been very quiet for me this year, there have been the usual suspects around in numbers (smoothounds, bass, mackerel and dogfish) but they seem in the main to have avoided my hooks.
One thing that has been noticeable is the amount of codling that have been caught all summer, lets hope this bodes well for the winter months.
Most of the damage done over last winter seems to have been repaired now and some new defences have been completed, some of these are large enough to alter the flow of an incoming tide and as such will alter the sea bed but guess only time will tell as to how this will affect the species on our coast, think the storms certainly altered the sea bed as we have noticed most places have become very snaggy whether from uncovering old sea bed or maybe new rocks ect that have been brought closer to our shores with the big powerful waves we experienced last winter.
Looking forward to the winter months.
Thursday, 6 November 2014
Saturday, 22 February 2014
Mundesley 21/02/2014
After trying a few venues lately and only catching small fish I decided to try the town centre beach at Mundesley (not an area I have fished before), arrived on high tide and was fishing by 10 am, first rod out at distance in the hope of something decent and whilst setting up second rod for close in noticed a tap then bend in rod on retrieval produced a small pin and a fair bit of bladderack so continued with the second rod and that went out 30 yards, within minutes 3 more pins were beached this continued until the weed eased then the distance rod started picking up decent but thin whiting 25 to 28 cm but the close in rod only produced small pins, bites slowed 2 hours into the ebb with just odd pins, 30 minutes later the close in rod was almost pulled over and was nice to feel a fish pull a bit, resulting fish was a nice 32 cm bass. finished at 2 pm. bait was fresh lug.
Few others fishing but from what I heard don't think they had much.
Few others fishing but from what I heard don't think they had much.
Saturday, 18 January 2014
Weybourne 17/01/2014
On arrival I was greeted by quite a few anglers already on the beach and it became apparent whilst walking to a free spot to the right of the pipe that the small whiting and dabs were feeding and didn't fancy a session catching fish in the 15 to 20 cm bracket so decided to spend a few hours trying to winkle out a couple of decent fish and ignore the incessant nibbles, armed with whole sprats (top and tailed) on 2/0 hooks fished at distance on an ebbing tide, it was a case of sit and wait but I was happy to do that.
An hour later and a few decent dabs returned I had a really good bite which produced a whiting 36 cm and very fat (weighed at just over 14 oz), ten minutes later another really good bite and decent fish on (nice to feel a fish actually pulling after the weeks of tiddlers) then the line went solid on a snag which too me a while to free (turned out to be two full sets of gear) sadly by this time the fish had gone, only one other decent bite just before bottom of tide but missed.
End result 3 dabs and 3 whiting, all sizable and all to a single hook 2/0 clip down, the other rod armed with a 2/0 pulley rig did not hook anything in 4 hours despite same bait.
Enjoyable session although needed my beach buddy up as the cold southerly wind increased.
An hour later and a few decent dabs returned I had a really good bite which produced a whiting 36 cm and very fat (weighed at just over 14 oz), ten minutes later another really good bite and decent fish on (nice to feel a fish actually pulling after the weeks of tiddlers) then the line went solid on a snag which too me a while to free (turned out to be two full sets of gear) sadly by this time the fish had gone, only one other decent bite just before bottom of tide but missed.
End result 3 dabs and 3 whiting, all sizable and all to a single hook 2/0 clip down, the other rod armed with a 2/0 pulley rig did not hook anything in 4 hours despite same bait.
Enjoyable session although needed my beach buddy up as the cold southerly wind increased.
Tuesday, 14 January 2014
Gorleston 13/01/2014
After talking to a friend decided that the beach at Gorleston would give me a fair chance of a few fish even the chance of the odd codling.
On arrival I had already chose to fish at the wreck end so parked up in the car park and walked down to the beach, nice looking sea but no other anglers fishing which didn't bode well, set up for 10 am, one rod with 2 hook clip down the other with 2 hook flapper both baited with fresh lug ,within a few minutes both rods were indicating bites so retrieved both to find 2 pins on flapper and a dab and pin on other rod.
Decided I didn't really want all the small fish that were evidently there so changed to 2/0 clip down on both rods but all this did was cause a lot of missed bites so it would appear there was only small fish about.
End of day 25 fish but only one dab sizable.
The wind changed throughout the session from sw 12 mph to s 16 which was a bit of a pain but the sun shone throughout and was even warm enough to remove my coat, plenty of small seals about too, two other anglers set up in front of the wreck for the flood but didn't notice them catching.
On arrival I had already chose to fish at the wreck end so parked up in the car park and walked down to the beach, nice looking sea but no other anglers fishing which didn't bode well, set up for 10 am, one rod with 2 hook clip down the other with 2 hook flapper both baited with fresh lug ,within a few minutes both rods were indicating bites so retrieved both to find 2 pins on flapper and a dab and pin on other rod.
Decided I didn't really want all the small fish that were evidently there so changed to 2/0 clip down on both rods but all this did was cause a lot of missed bites so it would appear there was only small fish about.
End of day 25 fish but only one dab sizable.
The wind changed throughout the session from sw 12 mph to s 16 which was a bit of a pain but the sun shone throughout and was even warm enough to remove my coat, plenty of small seals about too, two other anglers set up in front of the wreck for the flood but didn't notice them catching.
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