Easter fishing down West Cornwall...

[Lands End Tony]

Up early….what a lovely day. The sun shining, temperature climbing, I checked my gear, bait and provisions for the day, packed the car up and headed of to a great mark down in West Cornwall.

First time I haven’t packed the floaty jacket, just a t-shirt, and fleece. By the time I parked the car and walked across the fields to the mark, I was really working up a sweat.

Climbed down the north face of the eiger….(well it feels like it)




To face this….. the last bit




And then confronted with this fantastic mark.



Looking back across the bay towards taterdhu.



Set up my rods with standard pulley rigs and baited one with macky the other with rag/macky combos.
First cast a good slack line which resulted in this…..



Then the other rod which produced another……

All in all 4 dogs and a few small wrasse and then it went quiet for a couple of hours so I leant back and relaxed the afternoon sunshine, periodically changing my baits.
I was just nodding off when the ratchet went on one of the rods, springing me into action like some mad automaton…..I struck the run still in drag mode….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….my reel was screaming and the fish was still trying to make a spirited getaway. Finally put the reel into gear and reeled in a lovely Pollack….



Then another screamer….(awake now)…..put the reel into gear and wound in another……

This one went 2lb 10oz. Followed by 4 more.



Well by now it was 6.30pm so I packed up my gear and started my mega climb back up the eiger and across the fields to round off what was a lovely, memorable day.

[Charter Skipper]

Crackin report and pics Tony,can`t think of a better way of spending a day out ......

[BaggieRich]

Brilliant report Tony. Looks to me like those fish were fully deserved after the trek to the mark.

Well done.

[Fishing Forum Admin]

Great read mate and the pictures look cracking

[pingu]

great looking mark there tony nice report

[dogmax]

Well deserved mate, The Cornish rock marks take some beating

[Lands End Tony]

Thanks lads.
It was a lovely day and hopefully out again this weekend. Weather looking gooood for Sunday......

[Twiddler]

Well that DOES look a cracking spot, sounds like you had a great day, no wonder you snoozed off

Well done on the Pollock and the doggy

[monkey nuts]

what a great setting to be fishing in, and battling with some pollock to top a day off, well done

[Greenheart]

All the best Cornish marks require a long hike or a bit of climbing Tony. Usually pays off though. Well done nice report & Pics.