Sea fishing
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went off twice this week didn’t catch a thing apart from weed, it was very windy both days making casting for us amatures pretty difficult but every cast was a weedathon, we tried all sorts of lures, plugs, soft lures, surface lures and all caught so much weed.
Still not to worry our enthusiasm has not been dented, we are planning our next adventures though as school will be back we have to work around school times
I’ve done a lot of deep sea fishing from boats but this is a whole new ball game and learning curve still we will get there in the end no doubt,
Do keep the tips and advice coming its been really helpful
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I have wonderful memories of fishing the Sussex coast for many years, both on the beaches and in boats, also charter boat fishing in the West country. I always used to take a rod and tackle on our family holidays to Devon and Cornwall, where I used to float fish from the rocks. Float fishing was probably one of my favourite techniques. Perhaps you could give that a try, certainly no weed to worry about. Tight lines.
Spent last night at St Poll, there was a lot of weed but I managed to get a good bass up to the wall before he got off. I was using a mepps spinner with the treble hook removed, in front of a row of coloured beads, then a short trace to a single hook baited with a worm and retrieved slowly. I also had mullet follow but they did not take. The above method is good for various species including mullet and flatties if fished deep enough of fished static in a strong tide.
Found another interesting way to fish?
There are now good numbers of large squid to be caught around Brittany and indeed the South coast of UK. Douarnenez Port de Rosemur is an easy place to fish with adjacent free parking.
The squid like to keep out of the strongest tide flow, so corners of harbours and the like are great places to try.
There are lots of videos on Squid jigging on You Tube.
I have spent some time making a prawn drop net. Live prawns are now in excess of 70 Euros a kilo and apart from being delicious are great Bass baits.
I melted the ends of a length of black water pipe and fused them together to form the hoop. Cheap and easy.
Oh yes, brings back memories of my crabbing days as a youngster.
Twinkle – Oh yes, brings back memories of my crabbing days as a youngster.
Did you catch the crabs to eat.
I occasionally grab the crabbing bucket with my Grandson and we go to a little lake for a crabbing session. We load the net with bacon and see how many we crabs we can catch. When done, we release them back into the water. This is not always straightforward as he want to take them home, so takes some convincing to put them back and say “we can come and visit them again”. Some of our catch may be large enough to eat, but put them all back. I am not sure who is more excited when we catch them….loads of excitement and jumping about?
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Tina wonderful times and memories for us both. We used the same method including the use of bacon as bait. Similarly, all captures were returned, albeit with one exception. One time, I dropped my net over the harbour wall and when I later lifted the net there was the biggest crab I had ever seen on my drop net. It was humongous and I was so excited, I didn’t know what species it was and decided to take it home in the hope mum would cook it. I think it was the quickest ride home on my bike, mum took one look at it and screamed at me to get rid of it. To be honest, I can’t remember what I did with it, but felt guilty ever since. By the way, it was a spider crab.
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Spider crabs (Arringee) in French are delicious, their meat is much sweeter than that of the Brown crab.
They are a delicacy in Europe but largely ignored in UK.
They are also around a third of the price of Brown crab.
The other overlooked crab is the Blue Velvet Swimming crab, sweeter still but very much smaller.
Funny you should mention the Blue velvet @Bonjour. we were watching a short news docu about just such yesterday. Evidently they are a scourge now off the coast of Marseille eating all the paloudes or clams. I heard about this months ago and thought “Why aren’t they harvesting the blue velvets and turning them into a new food source” and voila, that is exactky what they are doing down there now.
They are one of the tastiest things in the sea.
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