Post by Mumbles Motor Boat Fishing Cl on Aug 10, 2015 17:14:53 GMT 1
This is such a long run it is important to utilise the tide to take you down and bring you back. Unfortunately, Saturday's tides didn’t fit right to do the normal leave and return times. So I decided I’d sleep on the boat on the outer pontoon and leave at 4:30am. Due to a problem on Friday evening I couldn't take on fuel until 07:00 Saturday morning, so we did not leave until the 08:00 out locks, i.e. normal time, this meant punching the tide and burning more fuel. Arrived at the island at 10:20. The first stop was the Stanley Bank where we picked up plenty of fresh bait, mackerel, launce, weavers, to see us through the day. We moved to the north side of the Island where the first drift produced a mix of Ballan Wrasse and Small Pollack.
We stayed at the north end of the Island for a hour or so and caught plenty more Pollack, Ballan Wrasse along with male and female Cuckoo Wrasse.
We moved off the island a little way to a very large sandbank, hoping for rays, but we only found dogs, small smoothhound and pretty good number and sized dabs. Then it was time have a bit of grub and a cup of tea. As soon as the tide strength had built enough we made our way south to a large reef that always produces lots of Pollack. Over the next couple of hours we caught plenty of pollack to around 4lb, more wrasse, mackerel and a lone poor cod coming to a mixture of feather or redgills worked on Portland rigs.
We had more than enough Pollack so tried a few other areas to see if we could find anything else, but more of the same really… Only thing to note was a 4lb ballan wrasse for Colin Albert.
After another round of sausage sandwiches we ended the day back on the Stanley Bank in an attempt to get a weaver (species hunt fish) for Colin Albert who’d failed to get one in the morning. Unfortunately, with wind over tide our drift was 0.3kts so after 10mins we called it a day and made our way back to Swansea.
Skipper Dean Gifford.
We stayed at the north end of the Island for a hour or so and caught plenty more Pollack, Ballan Wrasse along with male and female Cuckoo Wrasse.
We moved off the island a little way to a very large sandbank, hoping for rays, but we only found dogs, small smoothhound and pretty good number and sized dabs. Then it was time have a bit of grub and a cup of tea. As soon as the tide strength had built enough we made our way south to a large reef that always produces lots of Pollack. Over the next couple of hours we caught plenty of pollack to around 4lb, more wrasse, mackerel and a lone poor cod coming to a mixture of feather or redgills worked on Portland rigs.
We had more than enough Pollack so tried a few other areas to see if we could find anything else, but more of the same really… Only thing to note was a 4lb ballan wrasse for Colin Albert.
After another round of sausage sandwiches we ended the day back on the Stanley Bank in an attempt to get a weaver (species hunt fish) for Colin Albert who’d failed to get one in the morning. Unfortunately, with wind over tide our drift was 0.3kts so after 10mins we called it a day and made our way back to Swansea.
Skipper Dean Gifford.