So what I thought I would do with this post is take you over the match as well as a complete catch up with my progress in this latest species hunt.
I wont go back through the other species in much detail at all as I listed them in a previous post and possibly 2 in a row, so let's not make it a 3rd. So as you know I have had a Small-eyed Ray, a Whiting and a Plaice. One that I didn't mention though was a Pouting and the reason for this was I put it back after forgetting I had started a 2nd hunt, so didn't take a picture! (Insert sad face here.)
So onto the match, we started out with Kieran and myself casting out flapper rigs, mine being clipped down, both rigs baited with Ragworm. Jen decided to use a loop rig, size 4 hook on the top and a 2 on the loop hook length, she baited the top hook with Ragworm and the bottom with Ragworm tipped with a small strip of Mackerel.
Kieran was the 1st one in with a fish, as he was winding it in he said he felt a really big bang on the rod top, he kept winding and brought up a really small 10cm Bass but it was in a very bad state, it had almost certainly been hit by a much bigger bass than itself on the way in. I decided not to take a picture of the fish as some of you guys may have found the image slightly disturbing.
Jenny was the next one in with a Bass of 22cm as she was bringing it in I also had one of my own. Both took the Ragworm baits, although Jens Mackerel strip was taken off the hook as well as half of her worm.
Jenny isn't in any species hunts at the moment although there is one she may be joining in the near future, this is the reason for putting my fish in the picture instead of hers, we didn't take one of hers.
Kieran followed this up with another Bass of his own this one going 21cm, once again just Ragworm being what they liked. At this point he was loving it and ran to throw the fish back and get cast back out, in his rush though we didn't get to take a picture for his species hunt, this is another species added to a growing list now. The excitement seems to take over him quite a lot, as of now it includes, Garfish, Pouting, Scad, Thin Lipped Mullet and now Bass, the Mullet however was my fault as we went out targeting them and I unfortunately left the hunt cards at home.
Next up I caught a 65cm, 1lb 3oz, 47.5% Silver Eel, I entered this into the clubs fish of the month competition for shore competition bracket. Only needed to be 3oz bigger to be in the lead for the Silver Eel Cup mentioned in last weeks post.
Species number 5 added for me to the species hunt, both of these I already had for the Angling Trust hunt, it is actually though a personal best for me so i was very happy, I'm hoping to get out again soon targeting some bigger ones!
Kieran followed me up with an Eel of his own that went 50cm putting him firmly in the drivers seat when it came to the Junior part of the match. This put him at 4 matches and 4 wins, hes winning the Junior league on the Pier with 30 points and now he has 10 points on the Junior home shore, I believe hes only 30 points behind for Junior club champion with 7 matches to go!
Thanks again for reading and as always I really hope you enjoyed the post! Until next time take care out there and tight lines!
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