Isle of Whithorn 7/08/10
Posted: 08 Aug 2010, 14:10
Myself, Paul and Terry made the decision to attend the Donkers Isle of Whithorn meet as we fancied putting the beachcasters away and doing a bit of light spinning and floatfishing
I'd never fished these parts before, although I've fished the Mull of Galloway across Luce Bay extensively a good few years back, so I was looking forward to catching plenty of pollack and Wrasse.
Unfortunately, I made the mistake of googling other fishing websites and they pointed towards the possibility of Tope from the shore, good sizes too this put the 'fishing light' scenario firmly to bed and all eventualities were to be covered, so the boxes were loaded too and were crammed to the gills with wire traces and 6/0 hooks
On our way up we stopped off for ablutions and our eyes were caught by the cafe.........so.............
Three large Scottish breakfasts please with potato cakes and a square lorne sausage...delicious!!
Terry likes a bit of breakfast with his pepper
Suitably 'set up for the day' we pressed on to Whithorn, when we realised we'd not arranged with any of the guys where we were supposed to be meeting Not to worry, we can ring them....no signal!!
We decided to press on and lugged our gear over onto the headland were we quickly set up our gear, I opted to float and spin whilst Paul and Terry tried legering and mackerel bashing with feathers launched to the horizon.
I was first in with a small pollack..
Terry and Paul lost 4 or 5 sets of gear straight away, this spot was seriously snaggy and a tackle graveyard. They changed tactics and went onto the float which resulted in Terry's first ever pollack (no pic, so it doesn't count Tez....Paul, did you see a pollack? No? Neither did I..........)
I managed a mini species...
Then Paul used his knowledge of rock ledge fishing for Wrasse in the IOM and hit upon the perfect method for winkling them out. It was a fish a chuck from this point...
A nice one for me...
The scenery was fantastic......
I had one attempt at launching a tope bait out as the tide slackened, hoping less tide run with result in getting my gear back...some hope! We'd slogged all the extra gear down the cliff for bugger all! Is it normal to get pains running down your arm from your chest? I was fooooked!
We couldn't have wished for better weather, we'd packed the car with waterproofs and all sorts of wet weather gear expecting the worst, and left the suncream and sunglasses at home!
The craic was brilliant as usual, the fishing pretty good once we'd sussed it out and the venue and scenery superb we buggered off at low water and in hindsight we should have stayed and fished the flood into the dusk, it probably fished its head off. But we decided (joint decision lads...c'mon!) to go in search of other venues....bad decision as it turned out! Still, it didn't spoil a cracking days adventure
I'd never fished these parts before, although I've fished the Mull of Galloway across Luce Bay extensively a good few years back, so I was looking forward to catching plenty of pollack and Wrasse.
Unfortunately, I made the mistake of googling other fishing websites and they pointed towards the possibility of Tope from the shore, good sizes too this put the 'fishing light' scenario firmly to bed and all eventualities were to be covered, so the boxes were loaded too and were crammed to the gills with wire traces and 6/0 hooks
On our way up we stopped off for ablutions and our eyes were caught by the cafe.........so.............
Three large Scottish breakfasts please with potato cakes and a square lorne sausage...delicious!!
Terry likes a bit of breakfast with his pepper
Suitably 'set up for the day' we pressed on to Whithorn, when we realised we'd not arranged with any of the guys where we were supposed to be meeting Not to worry, we can ring them....no signal!!
We decided to press on and lugged our gear over onto the headland were we quickly set up our gear, I opted to float and spin whilst Paul and Terry tried legering and mackerel bashing with feathers launched to the horizon.
I was first in with a small pollack..
Terry and Paul lost 4 or 5 sets of gear straight away, this spot was seriously snaggy and a tackle graveyard. They changed tactics and went onto the float which resulted in Terry's first ever pollack (no pic, so it doesn't count Tez....Paul, did you see a pollack? No? Neither did I..........)
I managed a mini species...
Then Paul used his knowledge of rock ledge fishing for Wrasse in the IOM and hit upon the perfect method for winkling them out. It was a fish a chuck from this point...
A nice one for me...
The scenery was fantastic......
I had one attempt at launching a tope bait out as the tide slackened, hoping less tide run with result in getting my gear back...some hope! We'd slogged all the extra gear down the cliff for bugger all! Is it normal to get pains running down your arm from your chest? I was fooooked!
We couldn't have wished for better weather, we'd packed the car with waterproofs and all sorts of wet weather gear expecting the worst, and left the suncream and sunglasses at home!
The craic was brilliant as usual, the fishing pretty good once we'd sussed it out and the venue and scenery superb we buggered off at low water and in hindsight we should have stayed and fished the flood into the dusk, it probably fished its head off. But we decided (joint decision lads...c'mon!) to go in search of other venues....bad decision as it turned out! Still, it didn't spoil a cracking days adventure