Well time seems to be speeding up !!!!
Since last time I have put around 50 miles on the costal path , checking and fishing new spots . Learning loads and catching very little but its been a hell of a time .
First my lure collection has grown quite a bit here's a sample of them
I've managed to fight my anxiety and drove to some new spots on the opposite coast , which will help when the weather makes one coast unfishable .
The scenery and the epic walks make up for the lack of fish caught . Apart from the distance to walk to the spots part for the path rises and falls over 100ft . One spot I went down to there was no way I would get back up and my plan was to wait for low tide and walk round front of rocks to next beach along and an easy exit , ti soon became apparent that the tide would not clear front of rocks so I had to wade so far and then get back on rocks and clamber to the beach , now 2 things made this more difficult , firstly because of the decent and general poor planning I hadn't took my waders so it was zip off legs of trousers and walk in , the 2nd problem was that on google earth the traverse across the rocks looked about 50 yards but in reality it turned out to be over 700 yards !!!!! . You'd think after all this I would be rewarded with a fish but no I was actually given more problems , this spot is definitely a last 2 hours of the flood and a couple on the ebb , I arrived an hour to low and a long clamber across the rocks to get to a suitable spot but then things went wrong again as a group of holiday makers turned up snorkelling right round where I was fishing . So I left fishless again .
I tried another new spot the week after again a lovely long walk to look at 2 beaches that looked about a mile apart but turned out to be nearer 4 miles , nice trekking with you gear this distance in 28 degrees heat , when I eventually got to the 2nd beach I had again timed it wrong but it looks perfect for high tide , things ended very badly on the fishing front when my rod exploded on cast half way up the butt section , so needed to buy new rod . So have I actually caught anything in these trips ? well yes I have managed 1 wrasse and a schoolie bass . Last week I tried yet another new venue , this time it was an estuary , which is a new type of thing to me , I had a round walk of 6 miles and never saw a fish but again it was my inexperience , after speaking to someone who knows his stuff he gave me a few pointers regarding best tides and the like .
I'm going to stick a few pictures in now before I finish , a couple of explanations , one is a dead dolphin which had washed up quiet a while ago , I cant describe the smell . the tail less lure is the reason I switched to the texas rig and eventually caught the wrasse
