Devon Shore Meet - not long now

[Fishing Forum Admin]

Devon Shore Fishing Meet - not long now

Well not many days to go before the devon shore fishing meeting of which Im very much looking forward to . Better start thinking about tieing some rigs and ordering the bait .

Coming down with old smouthound , which means we should not get lost

Any new members reading this are very much welcome to come down and have a fish as we are a very friendly bunch

Date: Saturday 2nd October 2004

Time: Meet up 10am to 11am

Location: Brixham Breakwater

Multimap: Click here for map

Tides: H 8pm - L 2pm

Best Baits: Mackerel strips, rag worm, squid, peeler crab

Type of seabed: sand with rocks just below where you stand.

Parking: £7 all day

See Brixham Breakwater Guide for more details.

Bait shops:
Brixham Bait and Tackle
10 The Quay
Brixham
Devon. TQ5 8AW
Graham
01803 853390
Website

Is this date still ok for everyone?

[Norfolkboy]

sounds like you'll have a good time, good luck to everyone going

[Simon TorbayFishing]

RIGS

You have lots of rocks to strengthen the breakwater directly below you. You have seaweed about 10m past these in a lot of places if you're fishing away from the marina. If you fish inside the marina you have seaweed directly in front of the rocks.

Although it is possible to fish Pennel and 2up 1 down kind of rigs you might be safer choosing a running ledger or pulley rig and just use the one hook. I lost a very nice conger because the 2nd hook snagged the rocks just below the water. I was gutted and now tend to stick with 1 hook unless I'm not after anything big.

Congers 20lb+ have been seen recently and 2lb+ wrasse are being pulled out quite often. Pollock and mackerel have also been 2lb+ in the last couple of weeks.

[Simon TorbayFishing]

BAIT

Peeler working well at the moment. Rag also doing good. Mackerel is the ever reliant bait down there also. Squid is good if it's mixed in with something else.

[Simon TorbayFishing]

TYPE OF FISHING

Float does very well during the day but the bottom, although slow, gives nice surprises every once and a while.

Feathering all this year has been rubbish and I have consistently watched people on floats pulling in fish on a 5 to 1 ratio next to people feathering.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

[Old Smoothound]

Good info Simon... by the way I like your Web Site .... might even recognise you on the 2nd!!

You can't miss me i'm the one with loads of rods and gas burner stove!! Oh and carrying the Profs bait!

Looking forward to it very much.... tell the locals to leave some fish for the Forum Peeps!!

Cheers
Shaun

[nimue4]

Yeah guys, not been able to go fishing for a month now because of the weather, so looking forward to it. will need to borrow rods like 5!
See you all down there.
Jules

[Old Smoothound]

Originally Posted by nimue4

Yeah guys, not been able to go fishing for a month now because of the weather, so looking forward to it. will need to borrow rods like 5!
See you all down there.
Jules

You have got 2 from me mate.

Cheers
shaun

[pingu]

I can bring two for you but looks like i'm relegated to the metro for the day so thats all can fit in(with mine as well)

[Ben]

saw an article about conger fishing from places like that in total sea fishing this month using a 50lb boat rod with 200lb line straight through!!!
drop a macky down 1 of the cracks n pull it up with a conger