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Joined: Jan 09, 2008 Posts: 2

Hi, just bought myself a cheap 2.6m sea rod and reel and have no idea what to do. My girlfriend and I have a cottage booked on the west coast of Skye at the end of March, we like to walk, climb and sea kayak and thought we`d try a bit of sea fishing maybe eating what we catch. I have never fished before and thought i`d just use lures/spinners from the rocks, would this be ok for the time of year? Also could I use spinners on the east coast of Yorkshire for practice now? Any other tips would be gratefull!
Thanks in advance
Jimmy

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RiverRatJimmy wrote:

Hi, just bought myself a cheap 2.6m sea rod and reel and have no idea what to do. My girlfriend and I have a cottage booked on the west coast of Skye at the end of March, we like to walk, climb and sea kayak and thought we`d try a bit of sea fishing maybe eating what we catch. I have never fished before and thought i`d just use lures/spinners from the rocks, would this be ok for the time of year? Also could I use spinners on the east coast of Yorkshire for practice now? Any other tips would be gratefull!
Thanks in advance
Jimmy

In one word "Pollocks"!! big grin

Seriously find yourself a nice rocky outcrop and use redgills, green, black and red in colour or dead sandeel whipped onto your hook, cast out and retrieve at various speeds and you have a good chance of catching a Pollock. A very under rated eating fish, very much like cod but fishier in taste.

Good luck

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:58 pm

I don't think spinning on the east yorkshire coast would be any good this time of year as the bass are so few at the moment, (but i could be wrong). plus the type of predatory fish are limited compared to those further south, even in a summer to really make spinning worth while. If i am wrong, i'm sure someone will put me right.

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:41 pm

Here is a sample of lures that I use for hunting bass and pollack.

Even if the fish are not there its still worth practising

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:48 pm

that's true theres no harm in practicing, i practiced like that for casting. i'm still not very good LOL big grin

Joined: Jan 09, 2008 Posts: 2

Thanks for the help, think I might find a spot on the Yorkshire east coast just to practice casting.... Does anyone know any quite spots?

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:20 pm

you don't have to practice on the beach you can try a local playing fields, as long of course its qiuet

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:58 pm

Like bigbassman said it can be a quiet field to practice. If your gonna lure fish from the shore, i'd opt for a decent carp rod instead of a beach rod as they are alot lighter and better for casting lures out.

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:17 pm

best thing ive found is to cut a tennis ball in half and poke the lead inside, which stops it digging in the grass too much.... read it in a sea angler magasine, but cant remember what issue, Thought id give it a try, and it works really well.

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:39 pm

2.6 metre sounds a bit short to me, by all means carry on but I would use more like 3 to 3.2 metre can give better control if you get a biggy off the rocks.