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.
Saturday 18 January 2014
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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