Time For A Update!

Hello everyone just writing a quick post today to let you guys know what has been going on lately in my fishing and also fill you in on some great news I received lately. So I am going to contain my excitement about my news and work in order of what happened when. Firstly then I have some news of a very short fishing trip I went on with my brother, Dad and Ryan a friend from work, this trip was very much like the previous few, we headed off lure fishing down the Quay, not much of a surprise there then as that seems to be all I have time for lately, which also though to be fair is not a problem seeing as for me as it is for most of you I'm sure fishing is fishing, it doesn't matter where or when I just enjoy being out fishing and once again at the moment lure fishing in particular. Ok so on to the fishing, we had set out to get a few more Bass on lures after the success of the previous trip, nothing really changed from what we were doing before I went straight in with the Savage Gear Sardine but this time in the blue colour, after a few casts of just straight retrieving I decided to try the sort of sink and draw that worked last time and on the second cast I was in, once again only a small fish but it was the target species so I was off to a good start. I made a few more casts with the same lure but to no avail so decided a change was the right move, this time I opted for the Savage Gear Sand Eel six inch (or so) and began casting and straight retrieving again, I managed another two fish on this method before we decided on moving spots, we only had a hour left of the trip as three of us were all working on the same night shift and it was getting later in the day. We set off to the other end of the Quay in search of a last fish or two, as we were in a new spot I decided to change back to the Sardine but back to the brown colour that worked so well last time, two cast in and I hooked something that felt completely different in its fight but only for a few moments as it gave up very quickly, enough so that I simply reeled it in on its side and it looked like a big Flounder in the water, it was however my biggest Ballon Wrasse to date and I could not have been happier! We decided at this point to pack up and head off to try get some sleep ready for the shift ahead. 

Ok so moving on, finally I am at the part where I can now fill you in on my awesome news! This is something I have personally been working towards for quite some time now and for me it feels like a dream come true, I could not be happier to tell you guys the news that I am now a blogger for Fin and Tide, in my eyes these guys make the best clothing in the lure fishing world and I cannot stress enough to you the quality of the items! I had some new stuff come from them the other day and every aspect was great, the quality of the products, the style and design of the clothes and not to mention how fast they get stuff delivered is great to. For any of you that have read my blog in the past you will see that I have been advertising them and the products for quite some time so this is not just something I am saying because of my new role. I am that excited about this that I could probably sit and waffle on about it for hours but I did say this was a quick post and I'm trying to stick to that!

Ok so lastly on to todays session and one I have been looking forward to for a very long time even more so after I finally decided on my first LRF rod and reel thanks to John Wheeler and Hastings Angling, I decided on a HTO Rockfish UL rod and a Shimano Exage reel and on testing them out together for the first time today I could not be happier with the set up. The plan for today was simple, head straight to the Quay from work, so we would arrive there around 6.45am high tide was just after 8.30am, taking that into consideration I decided that jigging a small Savage Gear Eel to imitate the white baits that are normally being forced up off the bottom by the small Bass at this time in the morning, this though turned out to not be a very good decision as the water was racing through and was very hard to fish, however before calling the day a complete loss as I did not have long before the rain was due to come in I had one more thing to try, I upped sticks and headed back to the same place I had gotten the Ballon from a few days previous. The idea was to head there and try drop shotting for some of the other species that reside in the harbour, there is a whole load of obstructions and things in the water here that help to break up and slow the tide, by this point I felt like this was very much my final chance to get some action and christen the new rod so hooked on a small piece of Marukyu Isome worm in the white colour and large size hoping that the forever faithful bait would do the job and produce a quick bite for me again. Once in the water true to form it didn't take to long before I started to feel a few little knocks on the end of my rod, to start with they were only little taps and it didn't feel to me like the fish was on yet until I got this one big pull down and I lifted into a species of fish I have not caught before which was another bonus! I had landed myself a Tompot Blenny which although a new species for me I couldn't help but think it was fitting that the first fish I ever caught in the sea was a common Blenny on a practise session that I now christen my first proper set up with a Blenny also!

Once again guys thank you very much for taking your time out to read this post I hope you enjoyed it, I have a few new things in the pipe line so I'm looking forward to sharing them with you soon!