Mike Fox Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 (edited) Had a very mixed bag of weather over the half term, which I took off as holiday as well. Our first trip out was Thursday, when we fished several marks on the Slate Beds. Carol got us started with a beautiful male cookoo wrasse, with irridescent blue and orange colouration. George and I managed dogfish, and we all steadily caught a dozen or so black bream (all males!) to about 2lb, but no monsters between them. Big rods were deployed with larger baits, the best fish being a common smoothhound of 6lb 6oz. On the Friday, we trundled along to the Solent, catching mackerel and pollack en route, where we spent the night in peace and quiet with 6,000 screaming seabirds. As evening fell, we had 7 school bass, one dogfish and one solitary starry smoothhound of 5lb 4oz. Left next morning to fish a well known rocky mark with artificials, and 4" storm shads resulted in a few bites, with the best bass of 3lb 6oz. We then tried a small wreck, that seemed festooned with fish, but were probably pout, as none managed the artificials we offered on the drift. We then tried several marks at Southbourne Rough on the way back to Poole, after waving to a couple of club boats on the Ledge. We had a couple of jumbo pout to about a pound and a half, and 3 male bream of similar size, but the fish seemed thin on the ground - guess they have scattered now. Finished the trip with a few mackerel by trolling artificials, and tried a brief attempt for plaice in Poole Harbour with no luck. A very pleasant few days, no record breakers, but a great bit of fun. Mike, Carol and George Edited June 3, 2008 by Mike Fox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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