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25/08/2000 - Fly Cellars Newquay
Fishing time 11:50 - 16:00
     
Conditions Thunderstorms, Strong gusty wind. Sea state was wind broken broken with a small swell.
Tide

I must buy a new tide table - high tide about 3 pm

Small tide 5 ish m-1.3 m

Sun rise 08:09 - Sun set 16:55

Bait Frozen commercial bait mackerel, and sand eel.
Tackle

Two rods again, an old Daiwa Moonraker with an Abu 6000c (30 years old) and an Abu Atlantic with a Abu 6000.

Main reel line 15 lb with a 30 lb shock leader.

Single 2/0 blue hook on a short 8 & 12 inch trace (two rods!).The trace was 3 feet above the gripper weights (4.5 oz and 6 oz).

Species  
Mackerel

Two came in AFTER high tide, as a shoal moved in down the channel

 

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