After yesterday’s failure we decided that even without perfect conditions we’d go to Tramps Alley for hounds. Fairly large tide, a bit of wind but pleasant enough weather, we launched two hours before high water and dropped anchor a few hundred yards out.
I was going heavy again, the Maxximus LD15 and Nano 10-20lb rods dropping 8oz leads down on braid with 4/0 pennels and whole squid baits – and still I had to let a lot of line out to keep the baits from bumping in this flow.
It was a bit lumpy for most of the session, to the degree that I couldn’t even tell when the wash from this came through…
Lots of little snatch bites and then finally a bit of a pull…
Ummm…okay. It at least illustrates the strength of the tide!!!
We carried on for a while and things began to ease slightly; loads of small taps and pinched squid tippings but finally the first houndlet arrived:
Another whiting and another houndlet followed. The larger ones and the numbers are both late and reduced in quantity this year, at least as far as turning up on my hooks is concerned but things could all change next week. In fact they can all change next tide.
The tide, easing now, changed the size of the water and with slack approaching and bites stopping it was time to head in. We weren’t really rewarded for our effort but then again being out is reward enough.
We headed home and I gave some of my leftover squid to my pets…and put the rest in a paella, my wife commenting on how nice the squid was; I hadn’t the heart to tell her that most of it had been tenderised by sitting on the bottom getting sandblasted, dragged over rock, washed by tide and nibbled by crabs. Need to know!
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