HOBBIES

Managed a couple of early season fish here during an evening session this week.

The sea was flat calm and clear after a week of NE - NW Winds, not ideal, but after trying various lures at different depths and ranges I thought I had a hit but there are plenty of mullet around and I wondered if I'd bumped off of one. Shortly after I got a good solid hit at range and it felt so good to feel the power of a truly wild fish, shortly returned from offshore, battling away on the end of my line and to see the corresponding bend in my 7' rod as the light faded on a beautiful spring evening. As darkness fell a larger fish was hooked at closer range which immediately swam towards me for a few seconds before realizing what was happening and put up a fierce battle almost under my rod top before powering off on a couple of deep boring runs.

Great to catch here on my own patch, the first of 2010 just as the season closes for a month : (

Combine this with a week of howling North easterly winds cooling the surface of the sea, the weakest neap tides of the cycle this weekend and there's not too much point in heading out but the good thing about fishing is.....................you never know