Sunny Sunday

I met up with fellow blogger Callum Connor AKA http://www.phishfingerz.com/ last weekend. We spoke about meeting up for a Wrasse session last year so the continuing heat wave provided a forecasted sunny Sunday that would be just the ticket.

We exchanged a few texts on Saturday and after I had Lynne check the ferry times for Sunday (I was out of 3G and battery life) we agreed to meet at 7am for the 7.15am ferry. After 5 hours sleep and a 5.30am rise we met up in the car park near the ferry only to shortly realise the first ferry was 9.15am, nice one Lynne! With a couple of hours to kill I drove us both up to Wemyss Bay with the intention of maybe putting us on a Wrasse from the rocks. Callum opted for a weedless plastic and I went for a metal for maybe a mackerel. Callum was first up with some action a  follow straightaway and on my third cast from the rocks my lure was hit, the rod bent and I was into a nice little Sea Trout, good start. Neither Callum nor I had a camera at that point but just as it was about lift out time the fish came off. Callum then had a couple of hits but soon enough it was time to get back in the car.

We eventually got to the mark and I began to rig up a second rod with my plan being sort of bait and switch, find a pocket of Wrasse with float fished ragworm and then throw some plastics at them. I hadn’t the line through the second eye when Callum was into a fish which turned out to be a Pollack about a pound followed by another and umpteen hits on his Fiish Minnow. I eventually made my first cast with a Ribster lure and 5g head and a few lifts and a turn into the first cast the rod hooped over and after a nice run I was snagged, school boy error as the drag was still slackened off after playing the Sea Trout. The fish worked itself out after 5 minutes I was able to lift it free of the kelp.

 

The bites dried up pretty quickly and we started to move around to find the fish.

A Ballan on float fished rag I then had few cast with lures. It produced some interest but the fish didn't seem that agressive on the day.

Callum on a Gulp/weedless conhead set up

The Wrasse seem to be smaller at the moment

The Ribster again...

I found a little pocket of fish in a gulley and we set about trying to extract them

Another species for this year, a little Corkwing

It was really hot day and it looks almost tropical here

 

So, nice enough day, fishing was OK but it still has a way to go for numbers and size of fish. The early start was a killer for me and even with the air con on the drive home felt like it took a long time. I arrived home in time to see most of the tennis, worst ways to spend a Sunday.