Fished Gillkicker Last night

[RichardB]

The BBCI weather forecast for the South & South West said minus 6. They wern't far wrong. Fished one rod with big squid/mackeral bait and one with smaller hooks and mackeral strips. Difficult to thaw out the squid and mackeral. put some sea water in a bucket and chucked the bait in - after a while a sheet of ice formed over it. The strips of mackeral I cut up froze to my bait board and had to prized off with a knife.

 

Loads of whiting on the small hook setup - two at a time mostly, but the average size was quite small - not the nice chunky ones I was getting last month . In the end I got fed up with this - hands turning to mince meat constantly removing little whiting and re-baiting, so put another 4/0 pennel rig and large baits on that rod and sat it out for outside chance of a "biggun". No show. Bites ceased abrubtly at slack water. Waited for the ebb to get going but the tide seemed to be refusing to go out (or was I hallucinating from hypothermia by then), so packed up - a warm living room and glass of port was waiting.

 

Are we completely mad ?

[Vagabond]

That's a nice little cameo of what winter seangling is all about.

 

Freezing mitts, fight'n whit'n and a glass of port beckoning,

 

..........and always the chance of a big'n - next time.

[Dan]

I fished Chesil last night, just as cold but no fish! see "Abbotsbury at its best thread" Where's killkicker?!

 

BTW the tide didnt move at Chesil either, must have been the smallest of the year, and prob why the fishing was so poor!

 

dan

Edited December 29, 2005 by Dan

[RichardB]

I fished Chesil last night, just as cold but no fish! see "Abbotsbury at its best thread" Where's killkicker?!

 

BTW the tide didnt move at Chesil either, must have been the smallest of the year, and prob why the fishing was so poor!

 

dan

 

Gillkicker Point Dan - its a promontory that juts out into the Solent from Gosport, with Stokes Bay on one side and sweeps round to western side of the entrance to Portsmouth harbour on the other. Quite deep water and often strong tides. Although last night was the exception ! Even at 4.2 metres I would have expected a bit more of a run to it than there was. Sea was very calm too.