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26/01/2000 - Fly Cellars Newquay
Fishing time 18:50 - 23:00
     
Conditions Very cold, light, intermittent swirling wind. Sea state was calm with a small swell.
Tide

02:43 low water - 08:41 high water - 15:31 low water - 20:21 high water

Nice tide 6.3 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  
Whiting

To begin with they were small (6 inches) stripping the bait in seconds. Taking on both mackerel and sand eel. The eels were tail whipped with the hook in the body, but the little beggars still stripped the hooks bare in seconds. After the high tide lull, they started getting a bit bigger. With the best three being taken between 22:20 and 23:00. The last two were 11-12 inches and took like trains..

Pouting
These were all small, all below 8 inches.

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