Sea Fishing Trip Cleveleys Rossall Beach April 2007 2 Codling

- Cleveleys Low Tide Fishing

Apr 20th, 2007 by Chris in Fishing Trips

19/04/2007 (1930 – 2140 BST)

Cleveleys Beach (Behind Rossall School)

Wind: NW (Onshore) 9mph (Small Wavelets)

Low Tide: 0.5m (1850 GMT)

Bait: Black lugworm

Rig: 2 Rods, Pully Pennell Rig (2hooks), 2 Hook Flapper (1up/1down)

Fish Landed: 2

Started fishing with my dad just before low water (a 0.5m low tide) which was at 19:40 and carried on until 21:40. The location was in between Cleveleys and Rossall beach, out quite far as it was a low tide. Weather was semi-overcast with a cold NW wind and small waves. We had two rods, one loaded with a pulley pennel rig baited with black lugworm, the second rod was just a two hook flapper (one-up one-down) again with lug.

First cast resulted getting snagged into some small rocks and lost the hook from the pennel rig, second cast swapped the pennel for another two hook flapper. As the tide began to flood started to get a few bites, managed to get a roughly 1lb codling and as the tide sped up and came in quicker so did the bites. It had also got dark about the time the tide really started to turn (~ 20:50) Missed another strong bite, but got the next, resulting in another smaller but fiesty codling. Threw both fish back. Strange though that one rod out of the two got no bites at all! Weird! Had to retreat quite quickly as the tide moved up the beach, and then called it a day to prevent getting cut off by the channels behind us.

All in all, nice sunset, OK bites and a couple of fish!

2007 FISH COUNT: 2 Codling, 1 Dab