Dovers Eastern Arm. 13th May 11

[dovorian]

With the misses at work and the kids at school / nursery I decided to escape to the arm for the day.
I fished the Warren in Folkestone on Tuesday and blanked so needed a confidence boost.
I kept the left over ragworm from the warren in the fridge but it died, I decided to keep it and give it a go anyway.
I arrived on the arm at 0930. High water was at 0800. There was a good tide running when I arrived so was in no rush to set up. The wind was about 15-20 knots from the soth west. Just about managable.
I used 2 beachcasters with 1/0 2 hook flapper rigs baited with fresh ragworm and a boat rod with a 3 hook paternoster rig with size 2 hooks baited with dead ragworm.
I tried spinning and feathering for Bass and mackerel with my bass rod but didn’t have any luck with that.
I have been using 30lb braid on a baitcaster reel with the bass rod and got a little over confident at the Warren and suffered a crackoff. I salvaged the braid but had to tie a knot in the middle of the line so decided to put the braid on a fixed spool spinning reel but kept getting wind knots. I won’t be using that set up again, multiplier works a lot better and trouble free if you are sensible.
I had loads of Wrasse on the boat rod down the wall. The first was a cracker. I think it was a Cuckoo. Nice size too.

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I had several Ballen Wrasse sometimes in double shots. I had a Goldsinny and Ballen at the same time. Some of the ballen were a nice size as well.

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On the beach rods I had the usual Dogfish followed by double shots of Dogfish but then I got lucky and pulled out a little Stary Smooth hound.

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I only had a couple of pouting all day, not too bad but had several star fish.

At about 2pm I had a call from fishypaul. He said he was going to pop down and wet a line. His target was a Wrasse, witch he caught and a PB.

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All fish returned, Nothing for tea but a real fun days fishing.

[fishypaul]

super report jason,if it wasnt for that wind it would have been a lovely afternoon

thoroughly enjoyed them few hours we will get them bass next time mate

[dovorian]

Is that first Wrasse a Cuckoo?

[fishypaul]

no mate a ballan

[dovorian]

oh well, looks prettier than the others!

[MRG2000]

Nice days fishing Jason ,good mix of species , well done ...

[MRG2000]

Originally Posted by dovorian

Is that first Wrasse a Cuckoo?

Cuckoo`s are much more colourfully ,well the males are ....



Females are quite dull...........

[Complete Tangler]

Nice report Jason, looks like you were busy mate, hoping to add some more points to our tally either Sunday or Monday.

[dovorian]

I just looked the Cuckoo up, they are far more colourful.
Thanks for the reply.
Jason

[captain chaos]

Good session, I like your set up for protecting your rod and getting better bite detection, simple and effective. Brilliant report.
I went down the same road with the Braid, bl**dy pain!