lofty Posted July 31, 2015 Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 Today I had a free day so for a change decided to try Christchurch bay in the search for something for the table. Plaice, turbot etc. Arrived at Steamer a Point carpark(£7all day) and just squeezed under the 2 metre high barrier. Loaded up and down to the beach before sunrise. The plan was to drift fish with a spoon and rag and a Portland rig with maccy sliver. I dropped the sabikis in and within 1 second had two maccy. Then the sun rise Pretty quickly realised that drift fishing was going to be problematic. The seabed along there is weedy, not sandy. It's akin to the solent instead of Poole bay. Later when I pulled my anchor it was muddy. The maccys were also fussy They didn't take feathers, or tinsels, only the sabikis? During the course of the day I had two dozen, but singles and doubles. The scad on the other hand came through in schools and I had several full strings. At anchor I was getting dogs, topelets but mostly junior smoothys taking everything and anything. I was hoping for a gurnard or something on the rag for my species hunt, but the smoothys dominated. The sea was most peculiar. According to my tide table it should have been pushing through but there was slack water for several hours. Maybe I'd found the centre of a swirl? The sea state became mirror calm and with no breath of wind it was like being on a pond. A school or about a lb fell to a Dexter wedge while looking for a gar.He went back. Then a maccy fillet was taken and I'd guessed it was an undulate. It turned out to be a thorny. I had my scales with me and he was 8lb. It surprised me, I'd guessed heavier. The day was rounded off by a 55cm bass that came home for dinner. Once again I was surprised by the weight. I'd guessed about 4lb Turns out it was 2 lb Got two good fillets out of it though so happy days It was a good little trip today with 7 species, but I didn't enjoy the weed at all. Cheers for reading Lofty Neal, niggle, Rob and 6 others 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuie Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Nice report again Lofty - dedicated dangling.... lofty 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
great white Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Nice Great to read that your plan worked, shame about the weed lofty 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve S Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Nice one Lofty, weed is right old pain ATM inshore. All the fish will look big in your boat! lofty 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester Fisheagle Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Always a quality report and pictures with a good variety of fish thrown in. Sounds like another very good day. lofty and gaffa 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lofty Posted August 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 https://vimeo.com/135131209 Does this work? Direct from the tapatalk app? rich185 and 2006holmwood 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Yes! Looks lovely! lofty 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaffa Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Wow thats calm lofty 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Cheers for reading ? ? ? Blow that Lofty ! Cheers for sharing with us ! ! You always do a cracking report " warts and all " THANK YOU ! ! Jim lofty 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lofty Posted August 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Wow thats calm I was tied to a buoy in Mid tide and I let go. I must of drifted 50 yards in 30 minutes. Weird tides Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich185 Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 Great report lofty, well done. lofty 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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