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04/02/2000 - Fly Cellars Newquay
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Fishing time 19:00- 06:25
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| Conditions | A blustery cool night. Wind with strong gusts from the East(?). Sea state was calm !! with the little swell. |
| Tide |
10:58 low water - 17:27 high water - 21:12 low water - 05:10 high water Medium tide 6.2 m-1.1 m Sun rise 07:50 - Sun set 17:19 |
| Bait | Frozen commercial bait mackerel and fresh mackerel. |
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Two rods, 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 | Note:- an observation, the fish preferred frozen baits, it could well be due to be damage to fish flesh done by freezing which then releases the fish oils faster. |
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Whiting
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It look as though there are no nice big ones about at all. This could well be due to the fact that we haven't had a good storm for ages. That usually raises the stakes. The ones I did catch (mostly) were 5-7 inches. Only at about 4:00 did a better one turn up (11 inches). |
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3 Bearded rockling
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There must be a way of stopping these bait robbers, if they can't get their favourite lug then they will just smash up any old bait they can find. I must admit, at the moment we seem to be suffering a plague of them. Nice to break you duck, but when bait after bait, hour after hour these swine wreck whatever bait you have. |
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Pouting
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Well, it is not the rockling that are doing the damage it is Pout, who would think that a member of the cod family, a fish eater, would nibble delicately at the bait. |
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Coalfish
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I was wondering what was the point of sitting/standing getting very cold tired and hungry when the fishing has been going down hill week on week when..... I was standing looking out to sea, bait down wind (to the left) in a deep water gully. Bang! The rod nearly jumps off the rod rest. The line has gone slack (6 oz gripper!!!). First thought was a seal running into the line by accident. So I tightened the line. I could feel something nudging it but nothing you would think was responsible for that grab. Reel in then, no weight, the line went slack. Could a crab have cut the line or has one of the knots failed? Reel it in, even having to feed the line through the fingers to maintain tension. Then about half way in, a run! A tiny bass perhaps? At this point, little coalie decided go back to sea. What was going on? When I finally got him in would you believe it was no more than 10 inches. Sadly in his passion for the bait, the hook passed out through his eye. I return what I can, but badly damaged fish with no hope of survival are killed quickly and bagged. Those of you who say all should be returned regardless, well, I say what do you do with a whiting with its liver pulled out through its mouth? put him back to suffer and be eaten alive? A death by a thousand bites. |