| #1  07-16-2010, 11:31 AM | ||||
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| madness hartley arrived thursday afternoon to drag me out fishing, the forcast wasn't too good with high winds and torrential rain to the east while to the west there was predicted high winds and less torrential rain. i'd planned on chesil but that would have been suicidal not just mad.  not being to hopeful we jumped in hartleys motor where i said 'go west to try and avoid some of the rain & head to the shelter of lyme regis ' , then i fell asleep. wakeing halfway down to find it hammering with rain,  p'raps it 'll be dryer on the coast at 1900 we arrived , it was still raining hard an blowing a hooliey, after the long drive we mayaswell give it a go + neither of us wanted to be the one to call it off. so we fished the end of the fish quay, with the cobb wall holding the worst of the rageing seas off of us but unfortunately not the wind,rain or spray. i def didn't want to be on the cannon wall as it was a big tide which didn't just cut the wall off from the beach at high waater but the webcam showed the tide washing over the walkway at 0920 that morning  http://www.lymeregis.org/webcam we spoke with a few locals who were out enjoying the storm, it was not fun settting up as the howling wind seemed determined to throw everything offf the quay and into the drink. by 20.00 the anglers on the cannon wall vacated as the tide had now come in arround the wall and cut it off.  shortly afterward i had a knock on one of the rods and retrieved 1.5 points in the form of a bootlace eel, that promptly tied my 3 hook flapper into a ball of snot  , it was about this time when the swells, tamed by the cannon wall, started to lap over and across the fish quay and high tide wern't till 2200we beat a retreat to the lee of the old toilets at the end of the building and half hartedly fished on for a while before finally decideing enough was enough. as we left we passed 2 anglers sheltering in the leantoo's and fishing betweeen the boats while further back along the cobb wall the waves were crashing in and spraying sheets of water 30ft up and over onto the walkway. soaked through , 1/2 drowned & pissed off i wish i'd stated home on the sofa with my beer , still not a blank  __________________ beer so many venues, so little time.     |
| #2 07-16-2010, 11:36 AM | ||||
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| Re: madness Love your tenacity mate....glad to see were not a dying breed ( though fishing in that sort of weather its a wonder how ) Extra 1 point on the snotty for catching it in crap weather __________________ Shore Species 2012: Dab-Flounder-Herring-L.S.Dogfish-Pouting-Shore Rockling-5 Bearded Rockling-Small Eyed Ray-Turbot-Whiting |
| #3 07-16-2010, 11:43 AM | ||||
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 Re: madness Nice one guys & some well earned points there Gord. Suprised you did'nt get any bass in that weather though. __________________ Don't Judge My Path If You Haven't Walked My Journey... |
| #4 07-16-2010, 11:46 AM | ||||
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| Re: madness You nutters  __________________ If Everyday things are getting you down & stressing you out, Think like a Dog, If it cant be Eaten or Humped, Piss on it and walk away.. |
| #5 07-16-2010, 05:20 PM | ||||
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| Re: madness that is hard earned points, especially for a snotty eel mate  dave __________________ www.exmouthsaa.co.uk 24 beers in a case and 24 hours in a day simples You won't know unless you go :D...and if you do go!! please let us know :D as thats how the forum thrives |
| #7 07-16-2010, 07:16 PM | ||||
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| Re: madness You should of looked across the water, someone was trying to tell you what the fishing was like by the looks of it. __________________ You should forgive your enemies, but only after you’ve taken the shot. |
| #8 07-16-2010, 07:58 PM | ||||
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| Re: madness lol, nice one mate ! |
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| #10 07-17-2010, 06:10 AM | ||||
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__________________ beer so many venues, so little time. |
