Blanking

Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 5:00 pm

Hi guys! Can anybody help? Been fishing the beach at Holmpton for the last couple of weeks but blanked every time. I followed your advice about baits and rigs etc, but all i've had are a few thieving crabs nicking my bait! If anyone is having better luck in my area, i would be very grateful for any input. Thanks....Hullboy

Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 4:20 am

Hi HB, I dont know where Holmpton is, but i suspect its somewhere near hull, If this is the case, you would do better to put this on the N/East coast or East coast forums, hull is that grey area between 2 coasts and hard to decide which it should be on, but as far as i know its under East coast, though the N/east lads would be the ones to ask. Cheers...Mick

Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 6:48 am

hi hullboy, your post could do with being move to n/e coast forum anything south of the humber goes in the east coast forum, mabee try a different venue for a while

Dave big grin

Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 9:42 am

Thanks for the great advice! I'll try East forum!! Hullboy

Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 9:46 am

Job done . Its also in North East
Cheers
keith big grin

Occasional Joined: May 30, 2009 Posts: 117 Location: dover

Hi to all i am new to fishing been doing it for a year not that good though can aney one tell me what blanking is confused

Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 10:41 am

Blanking is when you dont catch fish.

Mr Manic_muppet anf Jaco have it off to a fine art. lol big grin

With Plank comming as runner up. lol big grin

Cheers
keith big grin

Occasional Joined: May 30, 2009 Posts: 117 Location: dover

ok thanks rabbi2

Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 12:50 pm

i'm applying for membership of the regular blanking club as my last 3 outings have led to catchin nowt this morning was nice on the pods at scarb pier got a bit of a tan on me baldy head tougue

Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 1:56 pm

i could help but i dont know how your fishing or what bait your using im from hull as well and the fishing round this area is very good if you know were to fish the fishing is very good at the moment my last 2 outings ive had 42 fish and sniper1 is fishing very well at the moment send your phone number by pm and i will advice you

Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 2:30 pm

hi 40harb ee rabbi2 and manic muppit for membership forms devil

Dave

Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 3:15 pm

Hi Hullboy. I fished Holmton last Saturday for the first time and caught 2 dinner plate sized turbot. Lost a really big un too! (always the one that got away!) It seems to be a really fickle place to fish. There were about 10 anglers on the beach and i didn't see anyone else catch anything. I was surprised as i had read some really great reports on it and we had gone to target smooth hounds and rays. We had all sorts of baits lug, mackerel, squid, prawns, sprats, and muscles but it was the classic lug/squid/mackerel cocktail that caught me the fish! Lots of guys there were using peeler and blanking but peeler is usually a killer bait. The one thing i do know is you need a rig that has a long flowing trace that presents your bait well bellow your weight. I made some brilliant s.r.t spring rigs where the long trace is slung up the rig body, around the spring and then back down the rig body to clip onto an impact shield. You can cast these streemline rigs really far and using a pennel hook combo you can use a huge bait! Have a look in some old sea angler magazines for diagrams of these riggs.

Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 5:27 pm

Drop me a PM and we can have a chat winking