Friday 17 October 2014
Works species comp 2014 - Weymouth - 16/10/14
Weather was again against us, really restricting where the 4 boats could take us. Having previously won the event on Wild Frontier, I was confident that we'd have a chance again this year.
To cut a long story short - I was cruising up until about 12.30 (then the wheels came off!!). Having already boated whiting, scad, pout, poor cod, ballan wrasse, goldsinny wrasse, and a black goby, Clem gave us a swift drift or 2 over the red bandfish mark (a species I've only aught once before - a fluke out of Plymouth about 6 years ago!).
On the 1st drift, having tackled up right for them - I had a rattle as soon this fella broke the surface! Stunning!
To prove it wasn't a fluke - I picked up my 2nd on the next drift. With only 3 red bandfish caught, and several species (and numbers) in the bag already - I was cruising!
We then targeted pollack (my Weymouth nemesis!) - having not caught one for about 5 years at the venue - I was chuffed to have hooked one, brought it to the surface, and lifted it 4 foot out of the water and a foot from my hand..........before it fell off the hook and swam back down to the depths!!! (12 points down the pan!) - doh!
Anyway - after that I added more numbers but only dogfish to my species tally. Others meanwhile boated huss, tope, mackerel and bream.
I still managed to finish 3rd on the boat out of 10, with both those beating me finishing in the overall top 3.
All in all a good day, and I'm now happy that I have a picture of a red bandfish!
To cut a long story short - I was cruising up until about 12.30 (then the wheels came off!!). Having already boated whiting, scad, pout, poor cod, ballan wrasse, goldsinny wrasse, and a black goby, Clem gave us a swift drift or 2 over the red bandfish mark (a species I've only aught once before - a fluke out of Plymouth about 6 years ago!).
On the 1st drift, having tackled up right for them - I had a rattle as soon this fella broke the surface! Stunning!
To prove it wasn't a fluke - I picked up my 2nd on the next drift. With only 3 red bandfish caught, and several species (and numbers) in the bag already - I was cruising!
We then targeted pollack (my Weymouth nemesis!) - having not caught one for about 5 years at the venue - I was chuffed to have hooked one, brought it to the surface, and lifted it 4 foot out of the water and a foot from my hand..........before it fell off the hook and swam back down to the depths!!! (12 points down the pan!) - doh!
Anyway - after that I added more numbers but only dogfish to my species tally. Others meanwhile boated huss, tope, mackerel and bream.
I still managed to finish 3rd on the boat out of 10, with both those beating me finishing in the overall top 3.
All in all a good day, and I'm now happy that I have a picture of a red bandfish!
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