fishing at last (the report)

[plugger]

Originally Posted by Fishing Forum Admin

Sounds like fun to me -- if you were thinking of cod then maybe 10 - 15 worms tipped with squid pn a pennel rig might have been an idea

hi richard,
we had worm with us but we were waiting to see if the sea would settle a bit first,when it didnt we wrapped em up to use another day.

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[keana]

Originally Posted by plugger

finally got out on 7.30 lock out, with thoughts of what i will be having with my cod for tea? got through outer harbour to be faced with quite a lumpy sea.got out to mark just past cardiff mid but decided to go further inshore as only got asmall boat. dropped anchor about 8.30 am hhigh tide about 1pm. 3 rods out with sqid and mackeral, first bites soon after with astrap conger then a couple of doggies followed. wind started to pick up a lot at this point making it rather difficult. fished on for a bit longer with another 6 small conger coming to the boat biggest being about 8 lb.at this point decided to call it a day.got back to the lock just as mike and the lady helen was leaving, hope they had a better day than us. all in all bit dissapointed but hey we live to fight another day.

good luck andy (keana) if you get out tommorrow.

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Nice one Pete. At least you got out and found a few fish. The weather beat me. Far too windy for my little tub. At least the weather men got it right this time. I`ll try again next weekend.

[plugger]

hi andy,
yeah we got out but it was very uncomfortable, saw a few small boats out there but they must have found as difficult as we did and in the end safety has to come first, catch you soon.

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[tommy a]

Nice one chaps - not having fished out of Penarth is it the Easterlys that make it uncomfortable ? Im hoping to put our boat in tomorrow and was thinking about a few hours out on the water but maybe it would be ebst to leave for another day with the Easterly forecast ?

[Charter Skipper]

Originally Posted by tommy a

Nice one chaps - not having fished out of Penarth is it the Easterlys that make it uncomfortable ? Im hoping to put our boat in tomorrow and was thinking about a few hours out on the water but maybe it would be ebst to leave for another day with the Easterly forecast ?

A light easterly is uncomfortable but fishable....the bigger easterly`s make it very dodgy in small boats,and theres the old and usually true sayin

"when the winds in the east the fish bite least "

If its light easterly....F3-4 you can mooch around to Barry and it will be pretty calmbut beware the Ranny it can get VERY choppy and the swells are extremly confused ,coming at you from all directions.Very dangerous at times.

[tommy a]

Thanks Mike - points well taken on board - Ill just wait for the direction of the wind to change !!

[plugger]

Originally Posted by Charter Skipper

A light easterly is uncomfortable but fishable....the bigger easterly`s make it very dodgy in small boats,and theres the old and usually true sayin

"when the winds in the east the fish bite least "

If its light easterly....F3-4 you can mooch around to Barry and it will be pretty calmbut beware the Ranny it can get VERY choppy and the swells are extremly confused ,coming at you from all directions.Very dangerous at times.

here here, couldnt agree more mike

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[keana]

If its light easterly....F3-4 you can mooch around to Barry and it will be pretty calmbut beware the Ranny it can get VERY choppy and the swells are extremly confused ,coming at you from all directions.Very dangerous at times.

Couldn`t agree more Mike. I can vouch for that. Nearly cost me dear on a couple of occasions. I`ll certainly think twice about wasting my time on an easterly again.