Lucky Bag

Friday 13th
the weather forecast wasn't good,
looked like it could be a case of grab some fishing Friday night
or suffer a weekend depression.

Tackled up along side Fairziff at Splash a couple of hours before High, joined soon afterwards by Mehmet.

Challenging wind and rain tested us until High when the wind dropped, the rain stopped and Mike left (something good on Telly?)

Scores on the doors at this point, Maestro a single but respectable sized whiting, and me on 2 pin whiting plus a double header of a whiting and a plastic bag fish - it gave a good scrap but frankly I was coveting Mike's small but perfectly formed codling.




As the ebb gathered pace so did my catch rate.
Fished two rods, fresh lug tipped with mackerel, size 1's on the beachcaster at range and
scaled down bait on size 8s on the bass rod at ranges from 1 yard to 30 yards.

Both rods caught equally across all distances.

Finished on 11 whiting and a 10oz codling of my own whilst Maestro was stuck on 2 whiting. -guess it was just my lucky day.

Well done all for braving the elements and congratulations on the Codling.

Marina apartments or Splash itself???

well done on the fish mate

headwyn wrote:

Well done all for braving the elements and congratulations on the Codling.

Marina apartments or Splash itself???

Splash itself Kev, at the no longer flashing flashy light.

I was going to post a photo but photobucket is playing me up!

(Mehmet started in front of the Marina Apartments before joining us, he had a knock there but nothing else)

Well done Paul.

Good to see Three Muskerteers out and about..

10/10 for the fishing

It's fair to say that it was absolutely lashing down!
Aided by a strong South Easterly, conditions were interesting!



Luckily, there were fish showing.

A steady stream of Whiting kept Notbad busy.



The Maestro and I were quieter, with just the odd fish.
I did manage a micro Codling on my last cast.
Which was nice!



Sadly, my waterproofs failed to be er.......waterproof tonight!

Time to take my pickled toes home to warm up infront of the fire.

ian40nw wrote:

Well done the 3 of you think thats the first codling reported at splash this year

Hopefully not the last!!!!

Hope there are some bigger Codling soon.

Well done all!!!