Sunday Off Swanage

[Mike Fox]

We took Frisky out for a spot of fun on Sunday, with one of George's friends, James, on board, who had never tried sea fishing before - but seemed experienced with freshwater fish!

 

Where to take a pair of 12 year olds, who just wanted to catch "something"?

 

Dean had suggested a couple of spots near the end of the Swash - but drifting didn't provide much in the way of fish - and the tide was far too strong for light spinning gear at anchor. So we moved, a couple of times, and eventually got into the slack tide of Swanage Bay, where we thought we might have a chance.

 

We lobbed the hook down in 50' ish, and started catching fish from the off - doggies (like last weekend) but bream too! Some nice pan-sized male fish at first, followed by a stack of females (returned) and more dogs - all to rag and/or squid. The fishing was pretty steady for all of us, and lunch was interrupted by bite after bite!

 

Whole squid baits were being shredded by the bream, that were even taking 5/0 hooks in their aggression, but the other species we had hoped for didn't show.

 

After taking just enough fish for dinner, we tried off Brownsea Castle on the way back in, catching James his first ever pollack, and 3 wrasse for me.

 

A great session, with over 50 fish between us, and while no monsters were recorded (well, having seen Gordon's blushes at the dogfish trophy - none that we might admit to !!!!), and a great time was had by all.

 

Mike, Carol and George

Edited April 22, 2007 by Mike Fox

[Afishionado]

Sounds like an excellent day Mike. It must be nice having an expert with you to mentor your efforts. I am sure George does not begrudge the time trying to teach an old dog fox how to do it

 

Mad Mike