Met with Andy, who had a couple hours down on the straits with a doggy to show for it, at about half 8, and went up to the breaky for round 2 against the conger that we almost had last time.
This time, my conger set up was a running leger on 45lb line through, with a wire trace to a single 6/0 with a slab of fish bait on flapping around. the other was on about 60lb line as i borrowed some gear off andy so i could get 2 rods out. 1 rod was in close, the other chucked out a bit.
Got a nice run on the close in rod, and as I lifted into it, it was a big boy again! YES! and after a couple minutes trying to winkle it out of its hole with some huge headbangs, my line had been pushed too far grating against the edge, and ting! it was gone, to put on even more muscle weight for our third encounter. I tied on a weaklink of 15lb line now for the weight to prevent this maybe happening again, in case it was the weight that got bogged down. I will be using this every time in future, so this was lesson 2!
Meanwhile I was having fun with the scratching rod, with whiting, codling poor cod and pouting (species 15) for my first 5/6 drops down the side, and Andy having a good few whiting and a codling too.
As Andy was checking in with the boss, he said Ad your rods going, and it was the one down the side twitching ever so slightly when i looked, and for the next couple minutes i watched it intensely for a bite with nothing, until i looked at the line going into the water, and saw it gently snaking away up the wall, as i struck in it was pretty solid, (think it was tangled with the other lines a bit) so was quite surprised to see it was only a baby at 5lbs, give or take a few ounces for my magic scales. Still, target obtained again, and species 16 caught for this year!
Feel free to comment with any questions about any of my fishing, id be glad to help!
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