MINING FOR EELS
IT’S A FUNNY THING HOW A SEA angler’s passion can drift in and out of focus. Life just passes quickly and while fishing is a constant in most of our lives, it’s very easy to get side-tracked with the multitude of other things that occupy everyday life.
My issue has been slightly different for the past year. Rather than other things getting in the way of my bait fishing, I found myself gravitating to LRF. However, rock fishing is where I found my passion in angling. There was nothing more appealing to me than fishing a very scenic, deserted piece of pristine coastline in Dorset, Scotland or the Channel Islands.
As soon as summer concluded and the black bream arrived here, I started fishing for them with bait and it instantly began to revitalise my passion for heavier work. The success with the bream made me want to get out the heavier rods and try for some bigger stuff and I found success in the form of a double-figure huss in my first big bait session in ages.
RARE RAY
I then sourced a bunch of fresh launce in Guernsey (the neighbouring island) and began to fire baits as long as possible from Maseline harbour, in the hope of a ray. In theory, blondes, undulates, small-eyeds and spotteds should all be present, although very scarce as a shore catch. We’d certainly see them if the long walks, tricky descents
