Repeated Session....

[alun j.]

Not a great scope for a trip today..... and the wind and rain when I got up was trying to put me off just like my blocked up head and nose. The forecasts were all confident of it brightening up albeit very windy........ so I went off to try and repeat the trip 2 weeks ago, down the bottom of Christchurch Harbour.

 

Today there was more wind and even more brown river water coming down but , tied to two buoys, fishing was comfy ....... with the dodger up.

 

Slow start, then increasing crab attack.......no bites until the tide started to run off.

 

Two flounders in the boat and two more lost at the net [ hook full of big worms doesn't get wolfed down so easily when float fishing] Good size fish, 2 lb. each and in fine fettle.

 

I wonder if anyone else was able to do better on yet another blowy day.?

 

Alun.

 

PS. Whilst watching the windsurfers whizzing about in the wind, I wondered why one stopped so quickly and surfaced shouting and swearing......... standing waist deep, just off the channel he picked up the middle of a floating, fixed gill net.

I could then make out the string of small floats, almost lost in the rough water; about 80 to 100 m between two small buoys parallel to the main channel on the North side; apparently fixed nets are legal here until Feb. 15. I didn't want to go too close but did see a few mullet?? like fish [or sea trout ??]

 

Watch out down there for next few weeks. An Orkney Day Angler 19 motored past me and came back over there and must have been close but didn't see the net.

[Mike Fox]

Well done for getting out Alun - and catching as well!

 

Mike

[Afishionado]

I could be totaly wrong but somewhere in the back of my mind is the thought that unatended gill nets within harbours are illegal?

 

Mad Mike