Out at Icho

a nice afternoon warm sunshine falling 32 ft tide resulted in Derek and I having 13 bass well Derek 10 and I only had 3 Derek had all of these fish on storm sandeels a lot of fish towards Rhino rock also on the side of divers rock. None of the bass over 2.5lbs also had mackerel pollack and wrasse

one fish on the rising tide

out with bev on the low tide only managed one fish on a fat swing impact caught entrance to main gully near margaret rocks

6.5lb bass on swing impact fat

parcel received from Tacklewarehouse today containing fat swing impact out on high tide 29ft flat calm nothing all afternoon until fishing large rock at entrance to Greve produced 6.5lb Bass

First Gurnard on soft Lure

Fishing main gulley rear of icho bouncing soft lure along the bottom small neap tide hardly any movement caugh a nice gurnard also mackerel pollack and snipe plus 4lb bass caught on a redgill

Fish and engine trouble

out at Icho this afternoon 32ft tide Derek and I had 4 fish in the main gutter off Icho 2 hours before low biggest around 4lbs mostly on redgill then a further fish around towards the sandbank. Then the engine cable went and we drifted onto a rock. Fixed today and out again only 2 fish today again in the main gutter towards leho

Better knots

tie your knots better and check them, a partedknot caused a  good fishto be lost at Shearers run after my knot parted exactly the same happened last year, however we had 6 fish not bigger that 2.5lbs 2 caught at reefs near offshore oyster beds.

Whilst the others were caught at the point around low tide

another day at IT

24 hours difference and the same number of bass comining to the boat at an hour and a half before low 33 ft tide. Fish being caught at the reef towards the middle of the bay with Derek taking a fish just over 4lbs all fish caught on new redgills