Sea Horse, Puffer Fish, Sand Eel and Mackerel

Planned to take Notbad 1 out on Saturday so Friday I ran the engine in a bin- but only after a change of spark plugs persuaded it to start- but it ran well after that so I was fairly confident,

After the usual "can't sleep" night before a fishing adventure,
Saturday morning wasn't to be plain sailing, fired it up briefly at home before heading for the club and Mehmet and I were soon in the water - where the blighter refused to start;  
after spending 20 minutes working on it knee deep in water we'd no joy so I called for the tractor to bring the trailer back down.
We couldn't get it to go in the car park either despite trying all the tricks .
A loan engine was very kindly offered but frankly after the disappointment I was drained.

Back home after a lot of fiddling we got it going and running strongly again but I doubt it would be relaxing to fish wondering if she'd oblige for the return journey. Disconnected the fuel, ran the carb dry and put it away for a spell of thinking about, there's a limit to how much effort a 40 year old Johnson Seahorse merits!


Saturday afternoon we hit the beach for the flood,

My catches of the day, (both sustainably hand caught)

A puffer fish ( not had one of these before, the vivid orange is amazing )



and a 2 inch sandeel





Saturday evening, prompted by a Facebook comment, I headed for Old Colwyn,
several million others had the same idea!



Arrived 90 minutes before High.
Had most of my success launching silver tinsel feathers a 100 yards to where there was a definite "track" in the water ( see photo )  counting to 8 then raising and lowering the rod a few times before retrieving,



Occasionally there were flashing silver streaks speeding past just a rod length out so everyone stood a good chance of landing one.

In less than an hour I'd had about 15 joeys including 5 at once;
Too easy really and no point in overdoing the mackerel bashing so with the morning's frustrations exorcised I was happy to call it a day and leave them to it

nice report and pics shame the engine let you down after you looking forward to a trip out
hope you have more luck next time

Great pics  

Hard luck ,good report though  

Good report and pictures, shame about the engine playing up what you won't do is give Notbad 1 a good talking to it nearly alway works with the wife and if that won't work give it a good kicking now that always works with the wife. 

kirky's dad wrote:

Good report and pictures, shame about the engine playing up what you won't do is give Notbad 1 a good talking to it nearly alway works with the wife and if that won't work give it a good kicking now that always works with the wife. 

I saw your bruises now I know how you got them