I went out Pike fishing last weekend and for the first time in my short time fishing for the species I blanked whist fishing with dead baits on the local reservoir, I also managed to blank at the waterworks lure fishing which is usually where we stop to save a blank.
With this being the case I have decided to spend the rest of this year trying as many new styles of fishing as possible, I set myself a new goal for the end of the year and that is to catch myself 3 new species of fish, weather that be salt or fresh water.
That brings me nicely onto last nights fishing trip with a good friend of mine Mark Tiller, when I mentioned to Mark I wanted to try these new styles of fishing and one of them being sea fishing he was kind enough to offer to teach me a few things.
We decided to go out Flounder fishing down at Shore Road, Sandbanks which is about a 10 minute drive from both of our homes, Mark was working in the day time so I headed down to the local tackle shop to pick up our ragworm, also bought myself what I thought were the correct rigs for the session and a few gripper leads. I also picked up a rig winder box the other day and that is now home to what small amount of tackle for sea fishing I own.
High tide was just after 11.30pm so we decided to fish it on the way up and for a hour or so after. I was very surprised how quick and easy it was to get my 2 rods set up and cast out, I was using some old gear that has been lying around at my place for years, to be honest I have no idea where any of it came from but with it being December I was unable to head out and buy new gear.
I had a 11ft Bass rod with a 4000 size reel and a 15lb braid mainline and a 12ft beach caster with a 7500 reel loaded with 30lb mono mainline and a 50lb shock leader. I also had a very old tripod my old boss gave me while clearing out the company truck when he left nearly 2 years ago now.
For someone like myself who is normally a complete tart it was a hard night looking at this set up, however as I said I'm only trying these styles of fishing so there is no point in spending loads when there is a chance I'm not going to enjoy it, also with Christmas only a few weeks away my other half would have blown a gasket if I did spend anything more than what I did!
As I said before I had bought some ready tied rigs for this trip, this was for a few reasons one was that time was not really on my side where learning to tie my own was concerned the other was again for not spending to much money on bits and pieces when the rigs were only £1.50 each.
I went for a 3 hook rig, 2 up and 1 down, this for me gave me the best chance of catching something if the Flounder weren't on the feed. Which is what proved to be the case, I had what I thought was a few bites but didn't manage to land anything, Mark though managed 2 of the smallest Bass I think I have ever seen but none the less it saved a blank for him.
1 thing that is for sure I will be heading out on a lot more sessions like this so I hope you have enjoyed reading about some sea fishing as there will be a lot more coming! I will also be out doing a lot of river fishing over the coming weeks, searching for a specimen Dace on the float and feeder fishing with the hope if landing my first ever Barbel.
Thanks again for reading see you next time.
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