Rods are like golf bats, you need a full set.
Been wearing the print off the catalogues,
weighing up a Powerstix Pro Bass and a Blackrock 7 piece travel rod, but in the event
wandered into Geoff’s and settled on a Daiwa 11 foot three piece bass rod that fits neatly across the boot, should do nicely for impromptu sessions and it had the all important X-factor
ie the price didn’t exceed the guilt threshold… First stop, with new toy
Llandulas, armed with peeler, sand eel lug and squid for a couple of hours after Low Saturday until the tide reached the rocks. My third fishing expedition this week (and Maestro’s third of the day)
An unpleasant stink in the air and a lack of fish in the water -we moved..
Llandudno North Shore,9 until half an hour after midnight high.
There was a match in progress but we found a slot.
Southerly wind, water very flat but gravel cleaned and far clearer than in Rhyl.
Not sure how the match went, (quiet I think, only noticed one fish, a whiting, being caught)
Peeler untouched, managed a couple of whiting at distance on lug with the beach caster.
Maestro equalled the whiting, added 2 rockling and a doggie on squid tipped lug.
About High he reckoned he saw the tail ripple of a huge green monster fish follow his bait right in on 3 successive retrieves.
-Personally I think it was his fatigue and algae phosphorescence playing light tricks
with the wake of his rig.
-that was a good enough excuse for spinning a shad on my new toy though, and then offering a tail hooked whiting, but it's still to break it's duck.
[i] - I might have to check the catalogues for a rod suitable for "huge green monster fish" though.
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