Maestro magic

[petesnr]

0550 saturday and the alarm goes off--no need I was awake anyway. Out on Basstronaught (sorry Gastronaught) for the first time ever.

0655 arrive at Alun's place to find him ready to go.

After that I never looked at my watch again until it was time for lines in.

Sweet little out-fit was soon off the ledge and looking for mackerel. After a struggle found plenty of joeys.

Misty morning gradually clearing--I was sure it was going to be a great day.

First few drifts and no bites so the master repositioned for the change of tide. Missed my first bite and then watched the magician in action. In the ensuing drifts Alun tempted 5 bass, with two of them between 6 and 7 pounds. I managed 1 which had to be slipped back quickly so that no-one noticed that it wasnt much bigger than the bait!

I have a suspicion that Alun uses some sort of voodoo charm on the fish as his bait seemed to swim towards bass while mine definitely avoided them!

Can't remember time going so quickly.

What did I learn? Everything and nothing. I know all about tidal streams and drifts (and wind chill on an open boat) but whether I could catch like Alun even with this knowledge is extremely doubtful.

Many thanks to Alun for a fascinating mornings fishing!

Peter

[alun j.]

Good to have you onboard Peter..... but you flatter too much !!

 

The 'score' .... was down to luck, me using 2 rods to your 1 and a little bit of guess work [ in thinking when to change bait]; I've been in the reverse positon [recently!!].

 

Experience has helped to find the drift lines .... but as you saw, changes in wind and tide make every one different!!

 

Give me a call if you fancy doing it again .... but don't know if we have many more settled w.ends left this season??

 

Cheers,

 

Alun.