As you guys may have seen in my last post I very recently went for my first sea fishing session, I headed to Poole Quay in Dorset, this is somewhere I am very lucky to live close to. You may have also seen that I caught my first sea fish in the form of a small common Blenny, I was very happy with this as I had not done any LRF before nor had I done any drop shotting which was the technique I used to catch the fish. This morning I headed back to the same spot this time to have a very short practise match with myself, I marked out centimetre lines on one of my old unhooking mats so I could measure my fish as accurately as possible, the plan was to fish for a hour and see how many centimetres of fish I could put together in the time. I had planned on heading down very early in the morning as I felt this would help me avoid any possible distractions, also keep me out of peoples way as they were getting ready for they're days work. Unfortunately the weather was absolutely horrendous when my alarm went off and this I swear was the only reason I turned it off and went back to sleep! After finally waking up again, not to much later I hasten to add, Jen and myself decided to head down together instead and take our son to do some crabbing at the same time, once we arrived, finally found somewhere to park and made the walk, or in my case the hobble, to the spot best for getting crabs Jen set about wasting perfectly good bacon by forcing in into the crab net, whist I tied on a fresh fluorocarbon leader, hook and popped on my drop shot weight. I cut up a piece of Marukya Isome worm and threaded it around my size 12 hook, I used a really small amount just enough to cover the shank of the hook. It was not long at all before I found myself hooked into my first fish of the session, I quickly unhooked the little guy trying my best to avoid its monstrous teeth, ok so maybe not monstrous but it has got teeth I promise, with the fish unhooked I measured the fish as accurately as I possibly could having not done this before, I felt I could comfortably give myself 10cm for this one. There was quite a long drop from the edge of the Quay to the water so although I was trying to do things as quickly as possible I could not put the little guys welfare at stake, also I wanted to show my son that just because it was a small fish he deserved to be treated properly, we popped him into the small net he was using to scoop his crabs of the bag with and lowered him back to his watery home.
Over the next 10 minutes I managed another 15cm of smaller Blenny, after this the bites slowed up so I decided on a quick change of lure, I decided on a small Fladen creature bait. I am left still rather unsure weather this was the right change or not, especially when it seems there was only Blenny at home today, I managed a fish of 11cm on this lure but that was the only take I had on it. I was now half way through the session and had managed 36cm of fish, I decided once again a lure change was in order I took off the creature bait and put on another small piece of Isome, this time in the red colour, this was a much better change as the next ten minutes past by and I managed two more Blenny both of which went 10cm each. After these though the bites once again dried up, I found myself at a bit of a loss as to what to do, I had covered all the water I had in front of me, I could not move to my left as there was a family there crabbing and this also the case to my right. This was unfortunate but at the same time it was nice to see so many people enjoying themselves catching the same small fish I was catching and also the ones that were catching crabs with they're kids, it was of course great to see my boy and his mum enjoying it as well. I spent 10 minutes going back over the same water I had already fished I only managed another 7cm fish, however by this point the family to my right had packed up and were leaving, I felt very lucky that this extra piece of water no matter how small had opened up for the last ten minutes of my hour, I wasted no time at all in walking down and dropping back into the water, around 4 minutes went by and I managed another small Blenny, this one went 6cm and was the last fish I managed to hook of the session which meant I had finished on 69cm and could not be happier with how the practise had gone!
As I said I could not be happier with how my session had gone, after speaking to the same group of guys I mentioned in the last post I have some more information to help with my next practise session, I have another trip to the Quay planned soon this time however I will be going on a species hunt. I will also be up early enough so I can cover a lot more of the water. I am also planning on a few trips to Christchurch Harbour, Swanage Pier and Weymouth, these will all be done and covered on this blog over the next month, I look forward to getting the fishing practise under my belt and I also am looking forward to getting the writing practise to. Once again thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did writing and I will leave you with a picture of my other half and sons haul.
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