My first 3 sessions of the year resulted in blanks, this was a little bit strange to me as by this point last year I had a good few weeks where I picked up a couple of nice early species.
My usual banker spots had not been producing anything at all even with trying out small pieces of ragworm instead of the Isome!
I realize that this time last year the weather was a whole lot better than it is at the moment and whilst I'm not an expert, I have been putting all the blanks down to the colder weather this year!
I kept on plugging away at it and eventually I did manage one, I spent a full morning down the Quay as I'm off of work on holiday at the moment, I walked from one end to the other trying out countless spots, nothing was going on at all until I got to a spot the other side of the bridge I had not fished before and decided to give it a go.
I decided to start out fishing ragworm but to no avail, so decided to go back to the Isome, this is probably the only lure I use in the early months of the year just to see whats about.
As you can imagine after failing so many times this month even this tiny little Ballan made it all worth while.
I gave it a few more days before heading back out again and that paid off for me as well, this time I didn't bother buying any ragworm it was going to be an out and out Isome approach.
Once again I was there for a few hours trying many different spots until I finally found a few fish.
I spotted a few small Wrasse in a hole in the concrete but they would pop out peck my bait and back up again, nothing was happening until this Rock Goby flew out and engulfed the lure.
I also hooked up with a small Shanny but unfortunately it dropped off as I lifted it out the water, it was a shame but I will be back down there to get him out again very soon!
Thanks for reading and once again I hope you enjoyed!
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