First week in July and time for the first summer jolly of 2011. Westward Ho! with the intention of kicking back and relaxing, spending some time with Cerys and maybe a spot of fishing to hopefully bag a few Smoothies.
The holiday went basically like this:
Most of the time was spent doing a lot of this.
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| Out on a recce |
After spending several hours collecting enough bait for the week I managed to spend some time doing what we all love, wetting a line.
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| Back on hound alley |
Sadly, this year I didn't catch any of these.
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| 2010 Hound |
After a couple of good days, the wind swung round making rock fishing for Smoothhounds a bit tricky.
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| Rock to beach panorama |
So I headed for the gulley's at the entrance to the estuary to fish for these.
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| Well below legal size |
When the tide was out it looked like this
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| Where's the water gone? |
But as the water level rose, the 'south gutt' filled up and in moved the shoals of Bass.
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| Ah, there it is! |
It looks lovely and sunny in most of these pictures but a fair bit of time was spent with my back to the wind and heavy rain showers.
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| Go on, rattle it again and I'll av ya! |
Even though I fished hard, the Bass didn't get much bigger than this.
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| Bass like worm down here! |
Roll on the next holiday.
Ain't amazing that if that lug guzzling bass had lived in fresh water we'd use a size sixteen to hook it with, but at sea, a 2/0 will be just fine! Sea fishing is another world. Can't wait to wet a bait in the briny again. I miss it...
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