Post by Mumbles Motor Boat Fishing Cl on Oct 5, 2015 16:56:15 GMT 1
I'd marked this one as a conger trip and a bit of reefing thrown in during the afternoon. We boarded at 6:30am, unfortunately the weather wasn't to be kind to us. I offered the option of hitting the bass mark again for a hour or 2 as the state of tide was near enough the same, but the guys were keen on heading out to the wreck so we decided to stick with the original plan.
We had a reasonable amount of mackerel from the day before along with frozen mackerel and squid, but you cant beat fresh mackerel. So the plan was to have a little jig for some more bait on the way out. A little motor round didn't show much on the sounder so I headed for a area that can be productive - as luck would have it, drifting over the mark saw strings of bass coming up on the feathers. Typical, the day before we'd covered 60miles+ to get a few bass; We went out for a few mackerel and found loads of bass 20mins from the pier heads!!
We arrive at the wreck on the 2nd time of trying and we dropped into the right area. Within 15mins we had our first eel onboard, only a strap of 8lb or so. I soon after hooked a sea monster but after 5mins my braid failed and all was lost.
Strangely, that was the end of the conger fishing, we didn't seem to get any more interest until we swung off the wreck and began finding double figure bullhuss - these were the worst behaved I've encounter for a while; normally I can handle them fairly well and get them to settle down quickly but all these wanted to do was bite your face or forearm!!
Colin Albert & BullHuss
Pete Jordan & BullHuss
Dean Gifford & BullHuss
Pete Jordan & BullHuss 2
Colin Abert with a nice thornback ray
Other than a few whiting, dogs and little tope we didn't find anything worth staying out wide in the increasingly sloppy sea (Wind over tide) so we ran into Oxwich - again to replenish our bait stocks for the afternoon. Scad were plentiful but we wanted mackerel which proved harder to find, but after watching a couple of gannets for a little I managed to put us over a shoal that saw the bait bucket filled quickly.
We had a few drifts over the wreck, but only had a few pout and poor cod, the wind and tide meant anchoring was not an option. We moved outside the moorings and anchored for a few hours. Here we had a few gurnard, dogs and a nice 11lb Thornback. We called it a day around 4pm - not the best days fishing we've experienced but nice to be out and back in at a reasonable time!
We had a reasonable amount of mackerel from the day before along with frozen mackerel and squid, but you cant beat fresh mackerel. So the plan was to have a little jig for some more bait on the way out. A little motor round didn't show much on the sounder so I headed for a area that can be productive - as luck would have it, drifting over the mark saw strings of bass coming up on the feathers. Typical, the day before we'd covered 60miles+ to get a few bass; We went out for a few mackerel and found loads of bass 20mins from the pier heads!!
We arrive at the wreck on the 2nd time of trying and we dropped into the right area. Within 15mins we had our first eel onboard, only a strap of 8lb or so. I soon after hooked a sea monster but after 5mins my braid failed and all was lost.
Strangely, that was the end of the conger fishing, we didn't seem to get any more interest until we swung off the wreck and began finding double figure bullhuss - these were the worst behaved I've encounter for a while; normally I can handle them fairly well and get them to settle down quickly but all these wanted to do was bite your face or forearm!!
Colin Albert & BullHuss
Pete Jordan & BullHuss
Dean Gifford & BullHuss
Pete Jordan & BullHuss 2
Colin Abert with a nice thornback ray
Other than a few whiting, dogs and little tope we didn't find anything worth staying out wide in the increasingly sloppy sea (Wind over tide) so we ran into Oxwich - again to replenish our bait stocks for the afternoon. Scad were plentiful but we wanted mackerel which proved harder to find, but after watching a couple of gannets for a little I managed to put us over a shoal that saw the bait bucket filled quickly.
We had a few drifts over the wreck, but only had a few pout and poor cod, the wind and tide meant anchoring was not an option. We moved outside the moorings and anchored for a few hours. Here we had a few gurnard, dogs and a nice 11lb Thornback. We called it a day around 4pm - not the best days fishing we've experienced but nice to be out and back in at a reasonable time!