first catches of 2014

I have recently picked up a wee car which will hopefully allow me to get out fishing more than I did last year, honestly, sometimes I went out like a pack horse carrying loads of gear in case I needed it.

Now with a car I can take everything I need without any bother at all, although its a small car I can fit all my gear plus other things in it, lovely.

my first outing by myself was local, well, Clydebank is close enough to be called local. Anyway I headed down to the Clyde at Clydebank college on a sunny evening around 4.30pm 10th June, and caught 2 wee flonders on a squid and sardine bait..

I went back again on thursday 19th and caught 2 more at the same spot.

Friday 20th June was a scorching day so decide to head over to greenock with the intent for a bit of bait fishing when I saw a couple of asian guys start to pull in mackerel, so I got a set of fethers out and quickly caught two before losing my feathers and weight on the cast. it was the only set of feathers I had so I settled for a bit of bait fishing.

I got talking to two guys from Johnstone and they kindly gave me a set of feathers, nice guys they were, one showing pics of some of the huge carp one of them caught.

I started fishing the feathers and soon had 25 mackerel which I kept for bait.

It was a great day out in the car, meet some good guys and caught enough bait to last me a while.

I;m going to go back over to greenock and try for some different smaller species with a small rod and small hooks and weights.