sea, town quay southampton.

by **geejay** on Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:08 pm

i usually fish beaches, piers and quays are rarely my venue choice these days, i've not fished one for years.
but feb/march being a thin time while we're waiting for the summer species to arrive, my m8 lee persuaded me to join him and give it a go as he and scotty couldn't stray too far from home last night.
i arrived to find lee and scotty already set up and fishing though they had only just started
the prediction was that it was gonna be a pout and whiteing fest but this venue produces a good variety of fish with the odd surprise big un on a regular basis, usually later in the year is better.

weather- cold ,dry, northerly winds.

tide- first highwater approx 22.30, just at the start of the spring tide cycle.

bait- ragworm, frozen black lug, squid ,frozen pealer crab, slipper limpet, mackerel, sandeel,sprat,raw tiger prawn,live baited pout. u name it we tried it.

rigs- flappers, pennel pulleys, flowing trace, wishbone(blinged) +any thing else the other 2 used that i didn't see.

as predicted it was a pout/whiteing fest with fish of the usual stamp (small) being caught regularly left ,right n center. there must have been a dozen or more anglers lined up on the fence, with most useing several rods.
it was definately a bit different to my usual marks where i end up ' Billy-no-mates' on a lonely beach somewhere, the company was good, i had some m8's to talk to instead of myself :)

it was lee who broke the pattern for the evening by landing a fine fat flounder on his wishbone rig, which was the only variation to the pout/whiteing all night.
well lee and scotty got called away and had to leave, and eventually all the others drifted off leaving me their left over bait.
with more space i could safely wind up a few casts and get out a bit further,
i did miss a real good pull down bite on the pennel pulley fished at range, otherwise the pout/whiteing continued to feed sporadically through the ebb.

i gave up at 03.30 due to cold and boredom, drove as far as salisbury before pulling in for a kip b4 i fell asleep at the wheel , with the phone alarm set for 6am which either didn't work or i slept through i woke at 8.20am with 1/2 hour to get home / kids to school :shock:
it just wern't gonna happen, the kids were late :x
and the wife not best pleased,
however the f,p,o. (wife) has granted a pass for early hours of saturday :D
which depending on the weather might be a goer.