I have been having a lot of fun with this lately and to be honest I have had nothing else on my mind at all, although I have just bought myself a nice new baitcaster Pike set up so I'm sure there will be some toothy sessions on here again soon!
So to start with Mark and I headed back down to West Bexington in the pursuit of anything that took the bait, this time there was no target species for me although I did say to him I wouldn't mind if a Doggy turned up. Mark on the other hand was after a Plaice.
I fished one rod at range all day with a Pully Pennel rig baited with either a whole Squid, a lump of Mackerel or a mix of both, that was hoping a rouge Ray might be out in front of me, with hoping being the operative word I think.
The other rod was fished with a single size 2 hook on a long flowing Pully rig, this one I was fishing either Ragworm, Black Lug or Smaller strips of Squid just to see if anything smaller was around.
Mark managed the first fish again this session a nice little Pouting and it was a new one for him in the hunt so he was happy, I followed that up with a lovely Bass form in close just before a Thunder storm decided to blow over and we decided at that point to call it a day!
So on to the second session, once again I was out with Mark this time though we spent the day down Poole Quay chasing after Marks first ever LRF mini species!
This was a great success and he managed a cool looking Shanny and another one of those really small Corkwing Wrasse I've been getting lately.
When it came to the evening we decided we were going to head over to Branksome Chine a beach very close to home and one with a decent reputation for turning up a few fish through out the year.
This time I did have a target species in mind and had set out to catch a Smooth Hound! I had spent the previous three days watching videos on which baits, rigs and anything else I felt might help, as well as googling areas near me they had been caught and going back through numerous local fishing news papers.
Mark once again had the first fish and once again it was another awesome little Pouting, a nice fish to see but this time didn't help his cause, I managed the second fish and this one in my mind was a turn up!
I put this one back and re baited, as I walked over to cast out I noticed my other rod bouncing away and picked that up first, I was absolutely buzzing to see the shape of a small Smoothy when Mark lifted it up out of the surf for me!
I took this one on a fair sized peeler crab snipped half way through and elasticated into a sort of crab sausage on a Pully Pennel.
Mark was next up into a fish and as it turns out it was the beginning of a flurry of three Smooth Hounds each in the space of two hours! Mark was getting them on Ragworm where as I had one on Sand Eel, one on Crab and one on the Ragworm as well.
One thing I was not sure about was the markings on the fish as two of them had the 'stars' on them and one didn't, luckily for me I took pictures of both with the card just in case as they both counted on the hunt!
That's it for this week guys thanks once again for taking your time out to read this it really is much appreciated and I really sincerely hope you enjoyed the blog!
Species so far: 10
Shore Rockling
Plaice
Rock Goby
Ballan Wrasse
Shanny
Corkwing Wrasse
Bass
Lesser Spotted Dogfish
Stary Smooth Hound
Common Smooth Hound
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