Loch Etive

Went fishing to loch Etive at the weekend. Fishing was a bit slow to  start with but did pick up later on We managed to get some spurs thornies pouting and coddling. The old doggies also made an appearance. Shane got a nice common eel and 2 tagged spurs were recaptured and released.

 

Species Hunt Oct

 

That's us now with 3 months to go before the end of the species hunt.

Things are still very close.

 

P Bryan, J Nicol, C Morris 1 Species.

D Sloan 2 Species.

T MaGorian, D Ainsworth 3 Species.

W Kennedy 4 Species

M Bletsoe 5 Species.

C Grant 6 Species.

S Kirk 7 Species.

G Goldie, S Mullin, I Grant 9 Species.

M Allison 12 Species.

J Soons 17 Species.

N Wilson 21 Species.

S Wilson 22 Species.

J Wilson 25 Species.

W Millar 27 Species.

 

 

 

A Good Day Out

Got a call from my mate Stewart to see if I was free to give him a hand as he had a party of 18 anglers and was a man down. As I don't do much river fishing and did not know what to expect I went along for the day.

 

A very interesting  day and many happy anglers.

 

 

Port Patrick



After digging bait with my 2 sons we headed to Cairn Ryan to meet up with Will who had been catching some fresh mackerel for the nights session. We headed to Port Patrick after a nice bag of chips and Wills dinner had cooled down enough to eat. We fished through the night into the early morning with plenty of fish about and some new species to add to the club species hunt.

A bit to hot Will



Double Shot of Dabs for Nico



A Green Ballan Wrasse

3lb 15oz Bull Huss

Something out off plaice here

Aug Shore Species Hunt 2013

Club species hunt for Aug is now heating up with just a few species separating the leaders.

 

 

C Morris/ J Nicol/ P Bryan 1 specimen.

D Sloan 2 species.

T MaGorian/ D Ainsworth 3 species.

W Kennedy 4 species.

M Bletsoe 5 species.

C Grant 6 species.

S Kirk 7 species.

I Grant/ S Mullin/ G Goldie 9 species.

M Allison 12 species.

J Soons 16 species.

S Wilson 19 species.

N Wilson 20 species.

W Millar 23 species.

J Wilson 24 species.

 

 

Still 4 months to go lads.

 

 

 

 

Down the local beach

Went fishing down the local beach with Shane Will and Nico. Got some fresh lug and started fishing.
Nico was first with a small flounder and then a nice bass. Will had a very small codling but was soon into a double shot. A flounder and a bass. Shane and myself had a few flounders. A lot of small fish about codling and whiting about 4inchs long. A good sign as no codling or whiting being caught till now. Miss my best chance at a good bass. I got this small rattle on the rod tip followed by a bang and the tip pulled over. Lifted into it fish on as I got the slack line in it gave a few head shakes as it hit the surf then fish lost. Inspecting the hook it had the head off a small whiting. The whiting hit the bait and a bass hit the whiting just missing the hook. Well that's fishing for you.

Then to top it off Will lands a 6lb 10oz mullet after we spent about ten hours last week trying to catch one Lucky or what.