Post by Mumbles Motor Boat Fishing Cl on Aug 13, 2015 15:47:43 GMT 1
Tuesday 11/08/2015:
Working so close to the marina is torture when its nice. From my desk I can see the Tawe locks and out between the pier heads. Tuesday saw boats slowly trickling through the locks out onto a glassy sea.
By lunch time I'd arranged to finish early - and had enough interest from members to make an evening trip viable. The Club boat Oystercat had been out in the day, but the skipper and anglers kindly came in a little earlier so we could head out on the 5pm lock.
The wind and tide were just right for heading a long long way south west, well off shore to a series of banks which are only really accessible on tides of 11m on the Kings Dock scales. I briefed the anglers that we'd only have 2 hours fishing due to the sailing time involved, but we had a reasonable chance of a few nice fish.
We grabbed a lb of eel from Swansea Tackle and Bait - put the burgers on and made our way out onto the flat sea - passed all the yachties heading in for high water free flow. Some time later we arrived at the bank but struggled with our drift speed for 20mins or so, we bobbed around only catching the odd doggie. The drift finally took us over the bank where we had the first bass.
Over the next 2 hours we had fairly steady fishing with 20-25 bass. All bar 4 were caught on sandeel, either live or dead reused ones. When we ran out of eel we pretty much ran out of fish - I knew I should have got 2lb of eel!!
All bar one bass was over 46 cm - most were between 50 and 62cm.
We made our way back in with time for 10-15mins on the mackerel but only found 2 before we had to dash for the locks. In all a good couple of hours out - great company, quality fish and fantastic weather!!
Working so close to the marina is torture when its nice. From my desk I can see the Tawe locks and out between the pier heads. Tuesday saw boats slowly trickling through the locks out onto a glassy sea.
By lunch time I'd arranged to finish early - and had enough interest from members to make an evening trip viable. The Club boat Oystercat had been out in the day, but the skipper and anglers kindly came in a little earlier so we could head out on the 5pm lock.
The wind and tide were just right for heading a long long way south west, well off shore to a series of banks which are only really accessible on tides of 11m on the Kings Dock scales. I briefed the anglers that we'd only have 2 hours fishing due to the sailing time involved, but we had a reasonable chance of a few nice fish.
We grabbed a lb of eel from Swansea Tackle and Bait - put the burgers on and made our way out onto the flat sea - passed all the yachties heading in for high water free flow. Some time later we arrived at the bank but struggled with our drift speed for 20mins or so, we bobbed around only catching the odd doggie. The drift finally took us over the bank where we had the first bass.
Over the next 2 hours we had fairly steady fishing with 20-25 bass. All bar 4 were caught on sandeel, either live or dead reused ones. When we ran out of eel we pretty much ran out of fish - I knew I should have got 2lb of eel!!
All bar one bass was over 46 cm - most were between 50 and 62cm.
We made our way back in with time for 10-15mins on the mackerel but only found 2 before we had to dash for the locks. In all a good couple of hours out - great company, quality fish and fantastic weather!!