A broken wrist on the day England blew the Euro finals against Italy has kept me out of action sadly so the blog has been somewhat neglected.
I’m still restricted in terms of what I can do – big rods and heavy leads are still confined to the garage unfortunately, but patience reached its limit yesterday and I decided on a few hours down Seaham pier with Mike in pursuit of a few mackerel for freezer bait (so pre warning – not the most exciting report!)
I just about managed with a light spinning rod and a single spinner, I thought a full string of feathers might be pushing it a bit as my wrist is still quite weak. As it happened the mackerel were quiet thin on the ground despite the good weather and I only managed 3 in the space of a few hours before the light disappeared.
We were great to a fantastic sunset though. I did end up losing my 2 spinners and taking a punt on the feathers in the end but no more mackerel were conned into my fish bag.
In contrast however the whiting were extremely obliging as the light was lost and they came on thick; I even caught half a dozen of them on spinners and feathers. Up and down the pier people bait fishing seemed to get little more than 30 seconds to light a cigarette before the whiting were jumping on their baits.
We gave it till around 11ish before calling it an evening. It was great to be out and to see Mike again, given the last time I fished was the piscan pot back in mid June.
Hopefully I’ll get out again in the next couple of weeks with something a bit more interesting to write about!