Adam F Posted July 10, 2005 Report Share Posted July 10, 2005 Paul J and I launched at 6.30am this morning and steamed past the lighthouse for a spot of bassing on the freshwater ridges. Mackerel were tricky to find at first, but then we found a shoal and strings of 4-5' joeys came aboard - how often does that happen? Usually when you want joeys you get jumbos and when you want macky for tea joeys come along - any how.... Bass were non-existant although a screaming run 1st drift for Paul had us excited - a 4lb pack tope the culprit. After fishing for 4-5 hours without a bass we decided on a different tact - and headed in close. Trolling a live macky 100 yards behind the boat just in gear - 1-1.5 knots. Depth no more than 10' meant we could see the kelp and bolders in the crystal clear water. It took about 20 mins for the fist hit, but the fish dropped the bait. 2 more like this and then Paul hooks up. A nice 3lber for the pan. I then drop another couple due to the large size of the bait and the modertae size of the fish. Then its my turn and like a pea in a pod - another 3lber. Paul and I were rather hot in the calm sunny conitions, so took the oppertunity to have a swim off BW. Diving off the bow into the water was great fun, but given the 18 degs water it was till very bracing and enough to take the breath away - I wouldnt wish falling in during the winter months on anybody. Anyway - it was nice to see BW from the water - a fish's eye view! Lovely weather, a few fish - could have been better and good company - nice to be out again! Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swainiac Posted July 11, 2005 Report Share Posted July 11, 2005 Adam, I seem to recall that the ridges only fish on one tide, so if you were fishing the flood, perhaps try the ebb next time.........they are deffo there. Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newboy Posted July 11, 2005 Report Share Posted July 11, 2005 Is it Freshwater or Brook Ledges? I had a look at the chart and Brooks definitely looks more interesting than Freshwater Bay, might even try Atherfield further down when I get a chance to get out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted July 11, 2005 Report Share Posted July 11, 2005 It was great to be able to troll so close to the Island with no Swell to make us worried about crashing into the island or the rocks below. with the island protecting us from the NE wind it was stonking hot, so much so that we went in for a swim which chilled us down very quickly! We also saw a school of small bass chomping sandeels at the surface near the bridge. We tried a few lures through them but they were so tuned into a feeding frenzy that you had to match the hatch to have a chance of a hook up. one had a go at my surface popper but we never did get hooked up- great to watch though. Lovely day out and good fun. We bumped into the guys with the boat named Ultimate chaos at the Lymington Slip. We had a quick chat before they had to drive back to London - poor Sods Paul J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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