No Wrasse.

well managed a few hours around the greenock quay and never managed any wrasse. I did get a wee flounder and a pollack both on a mackerel bait. The impact leads and the pennel pulley rigs worked well and will be a regular in my tackle box. As for the Wrasse, I think I'll have to move round the corner to either gamble steps or the cloch lighthouse at gourock.

Greenock again, Target: Wrasse.

Hopefully I will manage a few hours at Greenock again tomorrow, this time i,ll give the Mackerel a miss and target wrasse close in with the Light gear and try a bit further out for something bigger. I may even try a float if there is space. I,m going to try out some new (for me) Tackle. Breakaway Impact leads..

you clip your baited hook to it which makes the whole presentation more airodynamic, casting further out, and then releases the baited hook upon impact with the water. I,m also going to try out a Pennel Pulley rig...

This rig has two hooks (top one adjustable) for presenting larger baits, and when a hooked fish is being retrieved the weight of the fish will cause the free running swivel to act as a pulley, the lead weight will then be lifted above the fish with a reduction in the risk of snagging. thats the plan anyway, lets see if it works.

Greenock.

Fished 2 hours before low tide and 3 hours after and caught 16 mackerel one pollack and one codling.

greenock gopro from thomas best on Vimeo.

No Pike.

I picked up a course fishing permit and headed up the right side of loch lomond at Balloch to look for pike.
I fished mackerel for about 5 hours but didn't catch anything. the wind was strong and blowing straight at me and it rained a few times as it always does there. Next time i,ll take the car and head up towards balmaha and beyond it.

The clyde again

Managed a few hours today at the clyde in clydebank. 4 flounders caught between the two of us biggest was 1lb 6 oz.
I,m going to try Loch Lomond tomorrow and try for some pike.
I recently picked up a Gopro Hero 3 plus so hopefully I,ll catch a pike on video.

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.

Late present for myself..

I treated myself to some new fishing clothes, a late christmas present to myself.
I picked up the Jack Pyke hunter jacket and trousers, along with a Jack Pyke skip cap with leds on it and a pair of TFGEAR extreme boots. picked up some Greys Prowla super viz floats, wire traces and some bait. so I just need to get out and do a spot of pike fishing now.