Last Night...!!!

[upnorth1]

Well fella's, went to the same spot last night as Sunday, after them lovely cod!

Conditions were not as good although a bit of a roll coming through the gullies and pushing over the rocks.

After three hours, I'd returned 2 whiting and a flounder, with not a codling in sight!

First hour into the flood I had 3 slack liners. Picked me up, swam in about 20 yards, and then just dropped me!! That is the most frustrating thing in the world. Makes you wonder how a cod can pick your bait up, a big lug and crab cocktail on a pennell armed with 4o Sukuma Manta's, razor sharp, hold it in it's mouth, swim in with it (also carrying a 175 gram spiked lead!), and just DROP IT!!

I know most of you will be saying I should have just hit it! Doesn't work that way guy's, if that fish is not hooked, there aint a thing in the world you can do about it! If it was hooked, it wouldn't have been able to drop me! I like to hit them when they're swimming AWAY with the bait...

Oh well, the northerlies and cold weather should be here again by Thursday, judging by the forecast, so will be out again, in the cold, dark surf, and hopefully the conditions will get them feeding, and my rod will be nodding with my first double of the winter!

One final note, I reckon fish feed more strongly during a low pressure! Just wondered what you guy's thoughts were on weather conditions. I keep a log on every session I have, weather, wind, sea conditions, high/low water, baits etc. that sort of thing (am I mad??), and I always find my better sessions have been when there has been a big low pressure sitting over the country!

Fishing is a lot more than just lobbing a bait out, don't you think? I love the planning, preparation, when you know things are right, gets me more excited! But when you think things are right, and the fish don't oblige, just makes me want to find out why! And then off I go researching, looking for that perfect weather pattern, when I know the cod WILL FEED!

Yep, I'm totally bonkers!!!

[Old Smoothound]

Great read Paul nice post.

Shame about the Cod, but thats fishing!

I am with you on keeping records, i have done for twenty plus years whether coarse sea or fly. There is a pattern to fishing for different species and when you hit it right you want to be able to look back and try and replicate it somehow and see if it is still true.

I'm just as nutty as you when it comes to my fishing, planning rig making research, i think it harks back to match fishing, we all do it then don't we, when there is money at stake.

Fair play, a real fisherman. Big Double next time mate!

[upnorth1]

Cheers OS,

hopefully end of this week! We are apparently gonna have snow by Friday!

At last, some proper cod weather!!

[Old Smoothound]

Hi Paul,

I have just had a thought.... when fishing on Sunday I had a lot of nodding bites on the boat.... leaned into them and never landed them. The next couple of Codling I boated I looked at the area of the mouth where the hook had penetrated. I use Varivas,,, sharp as hell....

I noticed that the lip had been "cut" by the hook and any slack line would have let the little devil off. Just a thought as you were using very sharp hooks as well.

Small Cod always seem to have "soft" mouths and any sharp hook obviously cuts and enlarges the penetraiton point.

Strange though