Having not fished much before the brother in law was keen to get out on a session with me and see if he could bag himself a couple of species on the LRF gear. He has managed a pair of nice sized Shanny before whilst crabbing with my boy, unfortunately though they got released by my son before he could snap a picture of them.
I have now given him a rod, reel and a selection of lures so he can head out anytime and give it a go as I'm now going to be quite busy with work and possibly not able to fish again until next weekend.
So lets get onto some fishing shall we, the first evening went by completely uneventful and ended on a blank for both of us much to our surprise as the conditions were absolutely perfect, Nigel had been down the Quay the night before for the weekly bike night and seen a lot of people fishing and catching all sorts, so as you can imagine getting there to find the same conditions as described from the night before I was super excited to get fishing, sadly though things didn't go to plan but hey that's fishing!
Moving onto the second night, we decided to start in the same spot at the end of the Quay and work our way to the other end as we did previously. This time though I got a bite immediately but unfortunately lost the fish on the way up, this did though lift the spirits and fill us full of belief that it was going to be a good night. 3 and a bit hours then went by without another bite until we made it to the other end and on the 1st put in I got a few small knocks, this was followed 30 seconds later by a massive pull down to which I struck into my 6th species of the year so far and my favorite of them all!
Say hello Mr Scorpion! Could not have been happier to get this little guy up and in my hands, if I had to choose a single species of fish to only catch again this would be it!
We decided to call it a night after this as I got the shakes from excitement, literally was like a child at Christmas! Our decision was also helped along by the fact it was raining and looked like getting a lot worse as well.
Okay so onto the final evening session, this one started off on a much better note once again we started in the same spot with the same aim as before simply work our way along. With in the 1st 10 seconds of wetting a line I had my 1st fish in my hands so as you can imagine once again we were excited for a much better night again!
This time the fish came in the form of this awesome little Shanny (common Blenny) this is a species I had already caught this year, for me though that is not the be all and end all of my fishing, sure I like to catch new species and have a goal to catch 20 different ones this year but it really is more about seeing what is out there and I really do enjoy looking at every fish I catch!
After maybe a hour I had managed to catch a further 8 Shanny and was really having a lot of fun doing so, Nigel however was having one of those sessions we have all had, one where everything that grabbed his lure only grabbed the lure and was never hooked, other than a really nice looking shore crab that dropped off on the bank and scurried back to the water, once again before a picture could be taken.
One fish that really did catch my eye out of the 9 was this little fin perfect specimen (bellow), the coloration was captivating and I probably spent way to long looking and admiring it than was good for it but he went back swimming fit so no harm done.
We stayed in the area a further half hour or so but there was no more bites to be had, this signaled time to move spot for the first time of the evening, this time though we didn't move far at all before I noticed some swirling and ripples on the surface not far from a moored Sunseeker, as you can imagine I was pretty cautious casting to what was very likely a £5million yacht. I was already using a drop shot rig as I had been fishing close to the edge and that is my preferred method of doing so, however this is not something I have ever done at range so was a little unsure about how to work it. I decided to let it sink to the bottom count to 5 and give a single turn of the real handle, my plan was to repeat this all the way back to me but around 40 seconds later and I was playing s fish!
I had now managed 2 new species in as many nights, this time it was this really cool Sand Smelt that graced my hand! I have been told today that these are sometimes very hard to catch so am even more happy than I was last night which to be honest I didn't think was going to be possible, I was ecstatic when I got my hands on this fish! Believe it or not I actually spent most of the day before the session reading how and where to fish for these in my local area not once was the Quay mentioned though which only added to me excitement!!
Moving onto today, this is a trip I have been trying to find time to do for a very, very long time so when the other half said to me lets go and do it I fell in love with her all over again. The excitement and anticipation kept me up most of last night at which point Jen was probably regretting planning the day bless her. Unfortunately this session ended the same way as the 1st one a few nights ago but when you get the views I seen today along with some proper quality family time it doesn't even matter!!
Thank you very much for reading this post everyone, I have had the best few days fishing and have once again enjoyed writing about it to share with you so I hope you enjoyed it also!
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