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Issue 09/0513.09.05

The Circular ------Your Monthly Newsletter

This month we start with a big thank you to Jason Mann and Kerry Moran who organised and ran a boot fair stall on behalf of the club on Sunday 11th September to help clear out the lockup garage.

This month we will be travelling to fish at Deal pier (see minutes for times etc). The match will be against the Drive2Fish club (if I can get in contact with them!!).

Expect to catch a good variety of fish here including whiting, bass, codling, pouting, scad, pollack, blennies, gobbies, rockling, wrasse and eels.

Try using some ground bait such as old fish or old bait in a bag dangling on a rope tie to the pier railings to attract more fish to the pier legs.

As usual this match is a species match so we will be getting points for the various types of fish caught so you want to fish for the fish that will get you the most points...bass and scad will get you big points....and unclassified small ugly fish....gobies, blennies etc that can be caught between the pier legs also get big points. It will pay to move around the pier to catch different types of fish......apparently the pouting (low points) are nearer the shore and the scad are being caught towards the end of the pier. 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.

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.
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??!!]

Tightlines

John Padmore
Secretary