Inshore At Easter

[Mike Fox]

Had a few fish on board on the drift over Easter (mainly to my wife and son!), but I had nothing worth an official report...

 

Poole Patches: 4 skinny pollack of 8-10". They looked half starved. Wonder if the silt had anything to do with it. No bream or bream bites. Might be nets on the marks, as lots of snags above the bottom.

 

Southborne Rough: best marks netted (for cod apparently), or with commercial boats in attendance. Small wrasse, pout and one pollack to just over 2lb (full of sprats!). Again, no bream. Hard work in SW4-5.

 

Boscombe foul ground, just offshore: quite a few small boats there. We had 2 grey gurnard, one small whiting, and a wrasse. No other fish seen caught.

 

Wych Channel: no plaice or bass over sandy marks on lower end - just crabs. Mind, it was blowing a cold Easterly 5 gusting 6.

 

Swash channel: Nothing. Other small boats also drawing a blank. Bitterly cold in NW4-5.

 

Brownsea Castle: one good wrasse of about 3lb, another lost. Thought (hoped) it was a bass.

 

Well, gave it a try, but I guess the water is a bit cold still.

 

Mike

[Afishionado]

Well congrats on being brave enough to get out in nasty weather, but you have just resolved my feelings that I did right in staying home and gaining brownies.

 

I often feel a bit envious when I see the younger guys reports of cod and pollock taken from windswept cold and gloomy seas. Then sometimes I gird my loins into the winter clobber and brave the biting wind and try a trip out. Usualy by the time I'm rounding the Haven I'm thinking "Why have I done this?" then after a fishless hour or so I'm thinking "You bloody fool Mike go home" ....and I do

 

Mad Mike

[Fugazi]

I'm with Mike on this one, following the conditions and fishing on Friday I decided to stay in the garden and score brownie points as well. Having seen the reports today I'm glad I did, but hats off to the guys who did go for it. Fingers crossed we must be due some settled weather and improved fishing soon.

 

Gordon H