Whilst thinking about going sea fishing and checking the tides, I noticed that whilst high tide was at 6pm on a day I had off, 6pm was also the time of sunset, and the time of moon set. The same day was also the calm after a strong blow, so a trip was nailed into the diary.
Mike and I went to Hannafore Point next to Looe Beach, to try surface and subsurface lures and float fished sand eel, after Bass and Wrasse.
It looked great, choppy, colored, clear spots amongst weed, but despite all this we blanked.
We even tried ledgered sand eel near white rocks for the last hour, but not so much as a nibble.
It was weedy as hell along most of Hannafore. The lures kept picking it up and it got rather annoying, but then that's where the fish would be so we put up with it.
It all looked right, but either we had chosen the wrong approach, or the fishing fairy just wasn't on our side. She is a fickle wench that fishing fairy.
On another note, and possible the reason there was not a fish in sight, was the half ton bull seal we saw happily toddling along just 40yards off the beach. Ive never seen one that size. Massive bugger.
Now either he was there because he knew the fish were, or he was there and all the fish had legged it. Or indeed he was on his way up the river to snack on the mullet that come in on the tide.
Either way I'm blaming him.
It felt great to do some salt water fishing again.
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