Rocky Coast 17.08.24 no bait!
It’s close to midnight on Friday and I got the itch and it needed scratching. Checked the weather- good, checked the tide – hmm, high around 9.25am. Jimbob wanted to fish Holyhead Breakwater so not ideal but have to be in it to win it.
Chucked our kit in the car and drove over to Winnie worms for bait as we had none in the freezer. Oh dear, closed. Dilemma, mess about looking for bait or….lures, feathers and sabiki. Either pull our own bait out and/or do some mini bashing.
We headed down to the breakwater with no bait, and an hour into a falling tide. Change of plan, stay close but work with what we have got. Instead of the Breakwater we headed to the headland opposite on the Rocky coast area as its known. 1 hour after hide tide we started on lures with 3 sabiki above each. It was quiet with no sign of fish and some rather splashy coasteering people swimming about and Sammy the Seal also making a show. We managed a micro Pollock…
Coasteering family and the seal moved on and we dropped down on a ledge. I was hoping for prawn from the newly exposed rock pool but no joy, the ledge had a pretty steep drop, deep enough anyway. Tried feathers for a while but there were 0 takers, I wasn’t expecting much from there anyway. It did allow me to test the feathers we now have for sale in the new store section, they held up really well to repeated casts unlike others I’ve used in the past and didn’tend up as bare hooks! Really happy with them – seaflec and silvers available here – feathers.
Time to scour the area for potential bait to aid our quest, no way are we blanking, not happening 😅.
Limpets, perfect mini bait, especially for Wrasse and they were now uncovering. I baited the seaflecs knowing the hooks we larger than ideal, jimbob baited some smaller hooked Sabikis. That was it, 10gram weight on each and we dropped them down the side. Almost immediately the local Wrasse started to oblige, first up was a Corkwing on the Seaflecs. Then it was none stop with both Corkwing and Ballan with both of us catching plenty for few hours.
It’s important to mention that to keep catching we had to move around a little, Wrasse are territorial. Doesn’t need to be a huge area but if it’s gets slow then move, it’s surprising just a few metres either side can produce. Then it stopped, very little action just before low tide. We decided we had achieved what we were happy with and called it a day.
Side note…we ended up finding a Slow Worm on the Breakwater Country park before we left 👍 a cool and to us a rare sight.
Tight lines
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