Town quay 27/08/10

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 6:37 am

Decided to have a bash for the sole and bass at town quay , met up with fisherdan and steve 1973 , plain old worm baits for the sole and pout and maccy for the bass , arrived at 7 pm and was fishing by 7.15 , very slow start with few rattles until it got dark , on the flood things started off ok , with bagging 1 of the target species a small slip of 6 ozs ............

Things then went really slow untill i had a walloping bite on worm , slack line and immedieatly became taut again , wound down into a right old lump , i thought smutt on as one had just been bagged on worm weiighing in at 10 lbs 2 ozs , how wrong i was , something ive been after for years ................

2lbs 4 ozs , i was over the moon !! things never really picked up untill over high water when the bass were becoming a menace , striking at live pout , whiting and mackeral fillets but then leaving them well alone , id had enough and was determined to stick it out untill daybreak untill i got one ! well day was just breaking and the live pout rod screamed over , i lifted into it and bullied it out ..................

weighed in at 5 lb 9 ozs , biggest of the year for me ! well a very slow night but some great fish pulled out ,both the sole and bass were released to fight another day , its great to see the bass have finally shown themselves , 6 am and off home , boy now i need some sleep big grin

lee.

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 6:54 am

well done on the sole and bass , again happy

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:43 am

well done mate great report and some cracking fish happy

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 3:26 pm

Well done mate, thats on my "to catch list" winking

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 10:23 pm

Samir02392 wrote:

Well done mate, thats on my "to catch list" winking

The sole has been on mine for 30 years big grin

Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 11:25 am

well done mate, 2 nice fish.

Member Joined: Sep 23, 2008 Posts: 55

Well done cuckoo,

Two really nice fish there. Either one on their own would have made for a great session.

Well worth you sticking it out and not giving up.

Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 6:06 pm

Hey donkey you broken your silence happy

Hope all is well. Cuckoo glad ya had a good time still! big grin

Lovely sizes!!

Member Joined: Sep 05, 2009 Posts: 29 Location: Portsmouth

Great catches mate but..... how ugly are Sole?????? lol

Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 3:43 pm

Top Bombing Lee ......... nice apron that.

Dave

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:31 am

wow !!!!!
can you send some fish up tp blackpool north west,
love the photos,
where is town quay or is it torquay, as im going to torquay september 18th, hope the fish are that big when i go,

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:30 am

m0sgb wrote:

wow !!!!!
can you send some fish up tp blackpool north west,
love the photos,
where is town quay or is it torquay, as im going to torquay september 18th, hope the fish are that big when i go,

m0sgb,

Town Quay is the Isle of White ferry terminal in Southampton docks.

Cheers,

Dave

Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 7:47 am

cuckoo wrote:

Samir02392 wrote:

Well done mate, thats on my "to catch list" winking

The sole has been on mine for 30 years big grin

Since the day you were born big grin

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 5:59 am

Nice fish, pat on the back for releasing them. shame the guys who were fishing next to us didnt, they caught small sole & bass decided to beat 10 bails of sh*t out of them, then keep them, i wouldnt have minded if they were of decent size, if its someone on here its the big guy who puts out 7 rods so no-one else can fish have a bit of courtesy for others. sorry to spoil your great post. rant over.

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 6:22 am

7 rods? What sort of fishing is that, he may as well go out and use a trawler lol.

People who keep undersized fish are sick and don't care for the sustainable future and it wouldn't surprise me if he had pleasure in beating the thing to death!!

Rant over cool