Jimmyfloydreturns
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Evening all,
I had a long running thread about holiday fishing near Padstow over at the other place, long abandoned since they ruined the forum with adverts.
So here’s my new thread. It will be updated once, maybe twice a year following our holidays to the glorious Cornwall.
Onto this year and my first session was a little bit of rockpooling for mini species near Harlyn Bay. This was great fun and I was doing well catching a variety of species until I knocked my phone….this very phone…. to the bottom of Davey Jone’s rockpool ?
I reached down, coat and all, up to my shoulder to retrieve my phone and desperately tried drying it off. Cold, wet, grumpy and with a phone angrily buzzing like a swarm of hornets (not to mention a screen akin to a TV that’s lost it’s signal) I trudged dejected back to wifey.
Unbelievably a night submerged in dry rice fixed my old phone of any aquatic ills and it fired up and pictures retrieved! These are a couple of the mini species I caught, can anyone identify them? I’m presuming blennies or suchlike.
A close up of the head - big gob on this one!
And another different species, this one was feisty!
I would love to have stayed as these rock pools were deep and teeming with life. Not only the usual bottom dwellers pictured here but with my polarised sunglasses I saw shoals of small-ish silver fish, likely bass or mullet, zooming across the open space to slink into the dark depths of the pool.
Next session was Padstow. I always thought lower beach at low tide would be good as there is relatively deep water and surely a wide variety of species. Those who read my previous thread will have seen I’ve caught small bass, whiting and a coal fish from this spot so I was confident, especially as the flood tide coincided with dusk.
However, despite my best efforts (including many, many squid and black lug sausages being thrown out) it was a blank. I didn’t overly care though, it was calm and beautifully peaceful. After 18:00 as the rain rolled in I was even the only grockle within sight - bliss!
Until next time ladies and gentlemen.
Robert.
I had a long running thread about holiday fishing near Padstow over at the other place, long abandoned since they ruined the forum with adverts.
So here’s my new thread. It will be updated once, maybe twice a year following our holidays to the glorious Cornwall.
Onto this year and my first session was a little bit of rockpooling for mini species near Harlyn Bay. This was great fun and I was doing well catching a variety of species until I knocked my phone….this very phone…. to the bottom of Davey Jone’s rockpool ?
I reached down, coat and all, up to my shoulder to retrieve my phone and desperately tried drying it off. Cold, wet, grumpy and with a phone angrily buzzing like a swarm of hornets (not to mention a screen akin to a TV that’s lost it’s signal) I trudged dejected back to wifey.
Unbelievably a night submerged in dry rice fixed my old phone of any aquatic ills and it fired up and pictures retrieved! These are a couple of the mini species I caught, can anyone identify them? I’m presuming blennies or suchlike.
A close up of the head - big gob on this one!
And another different species, this one was feisty!
I would love to have stayed as these rock pools were deep and teeming with life. Not only the usual bottom dwellers pictured here but with my polarised sunglasses I saw shoals of small-ish silver fish, likely bass or mullet, zooming across the open space to slink into the dark depths of the pool.
Next session was Padstow. I always thought lower beach at low tide would be good as there is relatively deep water and surely a wide variety of species. Those who read my previous thread will have seen I’ve caught small bass, whiting and a coal fish from this spot so I was confident, especially as the flood tide coincided with dusk.
However, despite my best efforts (including many, many squid and black lug sausages being thrown out) it was a blank. I didn’t overly care though, it was calm and beautifully peaceful. After 18:00 as the rain rolled in I was even the only grockle within sight - bliss!
Until next time ladies and gentlemen.
Robert.
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