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Adrian Jacobs - Fishing Journal

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                        Archives:     2002

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When

Time

Tide

Weather

Fish

Bait

Rig

Comments

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<TBODY>Abbottsbury (150yds left of ramp)

Sunday 11/11/01

3.30pm-10.30pm

(dark at 5.00pm)

High 3.30, low, 9.30

Flat calm, over cast, light offshore breeze

2 garfish

1 mackerel

5 pout

2 dogfish

Sandeel

Sandeel

Ragworm

Mackerel fillet (1) Whole squid (1)

Float

Float

Flapper

Running ledger, 4/0

After dark, no fish on ebb (except 2 pout). Dogfish on flood.

Abbottsbury (50yds right of ramp)

Thursday15/11/01

6.15pm-10.00pm

High 7.30

Flat calm, partial overcast, no wind

5 pout

Ragworm

Squid

Mackerel fillet

Flapper

Running ledger 4/0

2 gentle bites on large baits (bass?), only pout on ragworm.

Abbottsbury (50yds right of ramp)

Tuesday 20/11/01

6.00pm-10.00pm

Low 5.30

High 11.00

Light to medium chop, F2-3 westerly, overcast

Nowt

Squid

Mackerel

Paternoster pennel, 4/0

Early evening squid (?) boat out. Scared everything (inc. dogfish) away?

Church Ope (left side)

Friday 23/11/01

3.00pm-10pm

Low

6.30

Calm, overcast

1 pout

Ragworm

Squid

3 hook flapper. Running ledger 4/0 with small upper hook

String of pots across beach, 60yds off, limited casting. Nothing on float in daylight (Sandeel & ragworm), nothing on spinner.

Oil tanks

Sunday 25/11/01

5.00pm-9.30pm

Low 8.30

Rough to start going down to medium swell, strong north wind that died after dark, overcast with drizzle

2 Dogfish

Squid

Paternoster pennel, 4/0

Lost very good fish just on low tide (strong bites, got it ½ way in, hook line snapped). No other bites until tide started to come in when dogfish started biting.

Abbottsbury

Friday 30/11/01

4.45pm-9.30pm

High 6.30

Rough, west F4-5, drizzle

1 Dogfish

Mackerel/rag

Squid

Paternoster pennel 4/0

1st cast. Nothing else. Just about fishable

Swanage Beach (300yds left of road)

Sunday 2/12/01

3.30pm-9.45pm

High

8.30

Slight swell, east F2 dropping to calm, rain

1 Bass (2.5lb)

3-4 pout

Ragworm

Squid

Mackerel

3 hook Flapper. Paternoster 4/0

Caught about 7pm after miscast, very close in! Pout on rag and mackerel. No bites on squid.

Swanage Pier (left side of near end)

Wednesday 5/12/01

6.30pm-11.00pm

High 10.00

Strong west wind, calm, overcast

3 dogfish

1 edible crab

Squid Mackerel

Ragworm

Paternoster 4/0

Running ledger

Dogfish on mackerel and squid. Apparently, the end of the pier, left 45° , 70yds is the best place for rays.

Oil tanks

Saturday 29/12/01

3.00pm-10.00pm

High 6.00

Light NW, moderate to heavy swell, clear

3 whiting 1-2lb, 1 dogfish, pout

Mackerel squid, ragworm, sandeels

Paternoster 4/0

Whiting on mackerel, from 5.30 – 8.00pm

 

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