Post by Mumbles Motor Boat Fishing Cl on Oct 5, 2015 17:09:43 GMT 1
With the evenings and bad weather starting to draw in as we move closer and closer to winter, we decided to make the most of the reasonable forecast the weekend. On the Saturday we went down to Lundy, probably for the last time this year. We got the first lock out of Swansea marina and made our way down to the island stopping to fish for bait on the way, here we found lots and lots of Launce along with 4-5inch mackerel and interrupted occasionally by a few weaver fish.
We started fishing on the north side of the island where we found plenty of pollack around the rocks until the drift speed dropped enough for us to fish the massive pinnacles of the hens and chickens reef. We had a few good fish here but were inundated with pollack of barely 1.5lb hitting lures both as they dropped to the bottom and as they were quickly wound up through the water.
When the tide built enough to force us off these pinnacles and as we started loosing gear, the next stop was the large reef at the south end of the island. This reef didn't disappoint, plenty of medium sized pollack were being caught on every drift.
The 3 Pollacks - Dean gifford, John Bevan & John Elvins
Nathaniel James with Ballan Wrasse
After a couple of hours we headed east to give a wreck a try, after 10mins of marking the wreck up we started the fishing. Skipper Dean stayed at the helm plotting the structure as Oystercat passed over the wreck and making sure we were heading in the right direction. On the 3rd drift Dean dropped a redgill down with the rest of the anglers and was rewarded with the only fish we had on the wreck - a nice bass of around 6lb.
Dean Gifford caught this 6lb+ Bass.
A few more drifts didn't yield anything so we a move to horseshoe rocks, but as we rounded Hartland Point the water got very dirty so we decided to call it quits and head back to home to Swansea marina. The easterly wind meant we had a very messy journey back. Luckily, by the time we got back into Swansea Bay the conditions were much nicer so we dropped the anchor for a hour or so. While everyone else kept the pouting, doggies and mackerel coming over the gunwales, Nathaniel and Dean went ahead cleaning the pollack that we'd bled before leaving Lundy. After all the pollack were sorted the bass was still swimming strongly around the live well making Dean feel guilty. Having more than enough pollack, the bass was returned and with a flick of its tail it shot down to join its welsh relatives!
Skipper Dean Gifford
We started fishing on the north side of the island where we found plenty of pollack around the rocks until the drift speed dropped enough for us to fish the massive pinnacles of the hens and chickens reef. We had a few good fish here but were inundated with pollack of barely 1.5lb hitting lures both as they dropped to the bottom and as they were quickly wound up through the water.
When the tide built enough to force us off these pinnacles and as we started loosing gear, the next stop was the large reef at the south end of the island. This reef didn't disappoint, plenty of medium sized pollack were being caught on every drift.
The 3 Pollacks - Dean gifford, John Bevan & John Elvins
Nathaniel James with Ballan Wrasse
After a couple of hours we headed east to give a wreck a try, after 10mins of marking the wreck up we started the fishing. Skipper Dean stayed at the helm plotting the structure as Oystercat passed over the wreck and making sure we were heading in the right direction. On the 3rd drift Dean dropped a redgill down with the rest of the anglers and was rewarded with the only fish we had on the wreck - a nice bass of around 6lb.
Dean Gifford caught this 6lb+ Bass.
A few more drifts didn't yield anything so we a move to horseshoe rocks, but as we rounded Hartland Point the water got very dirty so we decided to call it quits and head back to home to Swansea marina. The easterly wind meant we had a very messy journey back. Luckily, by the time we got back into Swansea Bay the conditions were much nicer so we dropped the anchor for a hour or so. While everyone else kept the pouting, doggies and mackerel coming over the gunwales, Nathaniel and Dean went ahead cleaning the pollack that we'd bled before leaving Lundy. After all the pollack were sorted the bass was still swimming strongly around the live well making Dean feel guilty. Having more than enough pollack, the bass was returned and with a flick of its tail it shot down to join its welsh relatives!
Skipper Dean Gifford