June Review

After 2 lovely new pb’s in April & May, June was a quieter month with less fishing time and a nice week away camping.

The month started with a St Catherine’s session with dad that was really slow. Just the ever reliable Dogfish and Small Conger, no Bream and no Tope runs.

Next I thought I would have a try for a Smooth-hound. It was a little early in the year for this mark but the tides and conditions were good so I thought it was worth a try. Again fishing was slow with just a few Dogfish but just as I was thinking of packing up the rod pulled over and I had my target species albeit only 4lb 7ozs. I decided to stay on a bit longer to see if there were anymore but only added a first for me, a Conger on hardback crab.

Next was a short Stingray session that was a complete blank before a short but hectic Wrasse session with the leftover crabs from the weekend that produced 4 Wrasse before I ran out of crabs, the best a really long fish of 4lb 11ozs.

That was the last session before we headed off to Lyons Gate Caravan Park in Dorset for a week. I didn’t take any sea gear with me but I did bring along some coarse stuff to have a go on the campsite lake where I caught Roach, Rudd, Bream and plenty of Carp to just over 16lb, great fun on a 1.5lb test curve barbel rod.

First session on the return was a Bream bash which produced plenty of fish but nothing over about a pound but it was an opportunity to get some standby Tope bait in the freezer.

Then a session in the town harbour with Dad, mainly trying for a Gurnard as this is a specimen dad hasn’t managed to tick off yet. It was absolutely dead apart from a few blennies and gobies on my lrf gear.

That just left time for a couple more sessions on the Stingray. I am constantly trying new areas for these trying to find a bigger average size of fish which inevitably leads to a lot of blank sessions. Sadly no sign of any Stingers just a mixture of small Bream, Dogfish, a little Smoothound and a surprise little Red Mullet.

July see’s me off on holiday again, this time a completely fishing free trip to Madeira, a bit of a fishing detox before the autumn.