Despite it being the weakest tide of
the cycle a chance to fish the extremes of night presented itself so Michael Quirke
and I joined forces again at the weekend and agreed to meet at mine for 3.00am
to head off and fish a bay on the falling tide which we duly did. We found the
bay to be free of suspended weed so fishing hard plastics was no problem. Wading
in the clear water I was fascinated by the streams of phosphorescence swirling of
my waders as I felt my way around under the stars casting into in the darkness probing
around the water column in search of a fish. Michael moved from the open strand
onto a rocky point and got hit by fish a few times but didn't connect, buoyed up by the presence of active fish I joined him and
we concentrated our efforts here as the dawn slowly broke behind us. Sensing
that our chances of finding a fish or two in open water were decreasing fast as the
light levels increased, I moved on to another section of the strand and after a
few casts I connected with a fish which I got to the surface before it threw
the hooks and the line went slack, tough going but the results so far were about what we’ve come to
expect of the fishing this “Summer”. With the sun well on its way up we
returned to the car and headed off for a deeper water rock mark which we fished
intensively with soft plastics and metals to no avail until, just as we were
about to call it a morning and head to our homes for a well earned rest, this most welcome fish grabbed my Wakasagi (Dark Brown/Silver Fleck) Spindle Worm mounted on a 7g Batchi jig! So, not a great session numbers wise, probably about par for the course at the moment, but very enjoyable all the same...
