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Issue 02.04 16.02.04

The Circular - your monthly newsletter

The next excursion is to Deal Pier where there have been reports of the odd small codling being caught......but they will of heard we are going down there by now so don't bank on catching any!! Expect to catch whiting, pouting, dabs, maybe one of those codling, a rockling or 2 and some of those gobbies/blennies to bulk up your points.

When fishing from a pier it is always a good idea to fish with a longer length of shock leader so that it reaches from your reel into the water so that you wont get the leader knot stuck in your rod rings as you heave that monster up. Don't forget if you catch any thing near 3lb in weight you will most probably lose it if you try to bring it up without a drop net...you have been warned! [Do fish grow that big now??!!]
Talking about drop nets its always a good idea if you can put some weights in the bottom of the net to hold the net down in the water. The other thing to remember is that you normally want that drop net in a hurry so don't just bring it along and dump it down with all the rest of your gear untangle that rope now before its too late and Mr Cod has swam off elsewhere.

The locals swear by the local yellow tails that they pump at nearby Sandwich Bay (is that because they want to sell them to you?), the experts from the Deal clubs that fish on the corners of the lower decks are often seen to fish with a long flowing trace with about 6" of fresh Devon peelers on a pennel rig however I prefer the cheaper option of plenty of fresh blow lug which I know they will not refuse if they come across it.

At Deal you want to be fishing into the tide so that your baits are pushed down onto the sea bed where all the whiting and codling will be feeding so you want to fish on the Ramsgate side before high tide and on the Dover side after high tide but I'm sure someone will prove this wrong on the day. Remember to use long hook lengths or a flowing trace that will keep your baits down on the sea bed where all the fish are. Don't forget there will be plenty of whiting about as well to catch so a little bit of squid or mackerel or herring or ragworm to tip off that lug could work wonders. But remember its not that often you will catch a codling on a fish bait so if you want to catch that record breaker.......

Take a variety of baits if you can.....some lugworm, ragworm, mackerel, squid etc to give you a chance of getting a variety of fish. Give Jason Mann a call and he might be able to get you some bargain bait.

I'll see you on the beach

John Padmore
Secretary