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Beau Port 19th Aug 2000
GR: 578,476
Decided to try again for some black bream at Beau Port, so I drove over to St.Ouen's Motor Works with Karen, and purchased some ragworm to add to the squid that Chris was buying from the Market..... collected Chris and arrived at Beau Port just after 6.30pm .... parked the car, strapped all the equipment to our backs and climbed down to the western rocks.....
Set up around 7pm principally to fish for the bream, but also with an eye for flat fish, so I used a Wessex ledger, with squid on the top two hooks (1/0's) and rag on the bottom hook (size 2). Karen did much the same, whilst Chris used a combination of traces on his three rods ......
High water was due around 10pm (10.3m), with a reasonable forecast of light northerly winds and patchy skies......
Having set-up the main ground rods I decided to do a little plugging while the light lasted ... came across a small kiddies rod and reel abandoned in the rocks, that Karen then used to freeline some rag straight down into the gullies below.....
8.30pm.... Karen managed to hook into a small 10" wrasse , that bent the kiddies rod almost in two .... god knows what would have happened if it had been any larger!!!!!!
Although the evening was very pleasant, there seemed to be a distinct lack of bites, let alone fish!!!!!! :-(
9.40pm..... Chris hooked into a decent fish, whilst fishing towards the beach.... fish took him into the rocks, and managed to cut his line..... :-(
9.50pm... after a series of what looked to be pouting bites, I reeled in, to find I had indeed caught a pouting, but also a cuttlefish.... unfortunately, the cuttlefish cut through the snood line, just as I was landing it..... and so I was left with just the 11" pout!!!!!!
10.00pm... Chris had a series of bites on his furthest cast rod, away from the beach..... started to reel in and met with some resistance....... after a while, the fish came to the surface...... smoothound.... I grabbed the landing net (that we'd had some debate over as to whether or not to bring) and helped him land the fish ..... think he was rather pleased that I'd insisted on bringing it down ...... nice starry smoothound of 4.1/4lb...... interesting thing was that it was the fish he'd lost earlier in the opposite direction.... the beads on the original trace had somehow become trapped in the graps of the second...... how lucky can you get!!!!!!!!!!
10.05pm.... Karen caught a small pout of around 9" or so......
10.10pm.... my turn to pull up a 9" pouting.......
After this, everything just died..... no real bites, and the bait was being stripped by whelks..... all rather boring..... by 1am we'd had enough and there was little left in terms of water depth, so we packed up, and climbed back up the cliff to the car.......