Boxing Day - Report - River Itchen / Southampton Water

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 5:14 pm

Hi all Merry Christmas
Well I took the boat out today (Boxing Day) fished River Itchen & Greenland buoy from 9.30am to 2.15pm, we had 1 small Bass, 4 Pout and 71 Whiting!!!
Started off in the Itchen but got crabbed to death and got a smell Bass, then about 10am we moved down to Greenland buoy, first drop down and the Whiting started to bite! They just kept coming not stop all day, I had 4 double hook ups and my mate had 2.
Used rag worm and mackerel , baited hokki’s , one up one down rig , most whiting all between 1lb and 1 ½ lb .
76 Fish !! that’s what I call a good days fishing ! See photos below

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 5:40 pm

Cracking report and well done on the pics. Thats what I call a good day out.
Cheers
keith big grin

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 7:25 pm

hi
shame the boxing day comp didnt happen but looks like you had a good day out,funny about the crabs as i walked along weston shore on sat whilst the comp was on and most people said there baits were coming in untouched but i fished swanwick and there was lots of crabs.might give it a try out in the boat tomos hope you have left a few whiting.
glyn

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 8:55 pm

I left one or two for you Glyn ....LOL

Member Joined: Nov 02, 2008 Posts: 48 Location: marchwood

Some nice fish there happy

Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 4:38 pm

hi mike
are you sure you left two lol as i could only find one whiting fished of salterns car park,flat calm when i went out just a bit of chop on coming ashore only in the tinny so prob wasnt as far out as you and left my bigger leads in the car so wasnt holding bottom very well,but at least it wasnt a blank prob have another bash later in the week.
glyn

Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:36 pm

Must of missed counted Glyn only left one LOL
we were in about 45 foot of water mate , try mixing boiled rice with choped up mackerel , squid or even pout , then ground baiting with it !!! opps let out my secret LOL

Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 6:29 pm

hi
boiled rice !!!!got to have that for dinner now as theres no fish,def wasn,t in that depth of water will have to start taking out the fishfinder thats been in the box since i brought it ten years ago,only good thing was prob didnt use as much fuel as you as i used the electric outboard so about 20p worth lol.

Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:00 pm

hi
anyway now the secrets out lol,how do you present your chum do you put in a carrot sack or freeze it in a ikea cutlery basket as i have seen mentioned

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 9:29 am

I use one of these Glyn it works well !!
http://www.berleybomb.com/

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 6:07 pm

hi
cheers mike i saw it in the message,might pop out tomos in the tinny or on the kayak in the river just to start the new year off as i will prob carry on lol,all the best for the new year.
glyn