A last minute evening trip in the boat was arranged with Ian tonight with the aim of finding a sole or two. Launching just before 8pm, it didn't take long until we were anchored up in 10ft of water. Light spinning rods and worm baits were fired out as darkness set in along with a whole squid uptide to pick up any bass running through.
Bites came steadily through the evening on the worm rods with a succession of silver eels, pout, smoothounds, rockling and more silver eels. Surprisingly though - no sole. I was sure we would find at least one here tonight but they just didn't play ball.
A good pull round on the squid bait resulted in a bloody dogfish of all things, a bit unusual given the shallow inshore mark we were fishing. Following the trend though, a bass decided it would rather take a bait intended for sole and made off with it at speed! Just managing to grab the butt of the rod before it vanished over the side, the fish went mad and breached around 50 yards behind the back of the boat. This one really didn't want to come to the boat, it fought well above it's weight and I was very surprised the size 1 kamasan didn't pull free. Eventually though it was persuaded to the net, a lean athletic looking fish nudging 4lb.
We had a couple more eels and pout before heading back at 11:30pm. Six species and a bit of fun but no sole.....will have to have another crack at one soon - maybe from the shore next time!
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