Fortnight in Fowey

Member Joined: Jul 15, 2008 Posts: 6

This was very much a family holiday with fishing trips fitting in around everything else.
We arrived in Fowey on Friday 25 July with what was probably the best weather we saw for the whole 2 weeks.

The first outing was aboard the Red Admiral. A big thanks to Kevin the skipper. We were quickly out and straight into fish. My nephew (Aged 10) had only been coarse fishing before and had only seen perch and roach up to a couple of ounces. Imagine his delight when the Mackerel came aboard. They were good ones, no records broken but great to catch and great to eat later on the day.
As we settled down other species included Whiting (2 / 3 lbs) and Pollack of a similar size. Highlight of the day for the juniors was a red gurnard around a pound and a half.

Bait was limited to Mackerel and frozen sand eel. I was nit tooled up to dig for worms and never found a tackle shop that had any in. My fault for not planning.
The weather and the tides generally conspired against me for the rest of the holiday but I took my chances when they came. Once the weather became unsettled even the Mackerel and garfish, usually in abundance, did not want to play.

While the youngsters were crabbing off the floating pontoons at the Albert Quay I dropped a three hook paternoster straight down. Loaded with sand eel I managed a couple of good sized Mackerel. Served up fresh for breakfast I also won brownie points.

When the weather was less clement and the tide high I took myself down to the White house Quay, where the Polruan ferry lands. My sand eels only accounted for some very small pollack. As did the red gills. I used a 2 oz barrel lead fitted just above a bead and swivel. Tied to the swivel was bout 4ft of 15lb mono and the red gill tied to that. While fun it was difficult to know if a fish was on or not.

During the bigger spring tides I checked out the rocks and identified two definite areas. From the shelter cast out towards the blue house in Polruan and you miss the rocks and keep out of the rain! By moving further round a cast towards the block house also put you into a narrow gulley between rocks. It did not however leave much room for error and did manage to eat a bit of tackle.

Chap fishing next to me was armed with rag worm. He was enjoying some success with the wrasse. Good ones too.

Other dabbles included the sea wall at Polkerris, empty handed and the passage slip, also blank.

Not a great fishing experience but it was never intended to be, just a bit of fun when the opportunity presented itself.

Guest

good account of fowey mate i cant be doing with all the bloody hills to the car park... big grin


				0.136 Seconds
			Home \| Forums \| Account \| Download \| Links