Well, the forecast for this weekend sure was welcome, sunshine
with a north westerly breeze and slight seas. Everything looked on for a good
day hitting wrasse on SP’s so we planned to get out to a mark which had showed
some promise when I fished it last weekend.
We took a long walk
around the coast hopping from boulder to boulder whilst keeping clear of the
very crumbly cliffs which after a good drenching were now baking in the sun, crunching and creaking and sporadically dumping
down the odd rock or buckets-worth of sand and slate.
Upon reaching our mark all inhibitions faded at the sight of
a kelp-strewn bay that was crying out wrasse. After setting up our texas rigs we
began the wade out along the ledge which takes you about 80 yards off-shore, away
from the landslides and into a good metre of water for most of the day.
After a fairly intense week it was great to be able to
revert to a child-like state and upon the first nibble that’s exactly how I
began to feel. Fishing light was the way forward but with our drags tightened in
order to bully any fish away from them returning to their lair where they
like to snag you up. 3”plastics, #1 wide gape hooks and some 5g cone
weights were all we needed in our pockets in case anything did manage to snap
us up. (thankfully no tackle lost this time!)
Fish started coming thick and fast and before long plenty of
nice wrasse were darting out from beneath the ledges and nailing our baits. Being
that we were wading quite far off-shore, photography was a challenge but
nonetheless we managed to capture some of these beautiful fish for the diary. Their
initial surge once hooked is awesome fun on light gear and the variety of
colours they sport is unlike any other fish that I know of. I'm well and truly hooked on them!
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