Cliff wrote:
Lidls Bratwurst from the cold shelf are also brilliant on the BBQ ;-)

Always conservatively stuck to the average frozen sausages! Will try the
bratwurst now though Would also recommend Lidl burgers, 12 for 1.50 or
something. Best cheap burgers in the world Just buy the bread rolls from
somewhere else

Still like to catch a bloody fish though...

Likewise


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"Likewise" wrote in message
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Many thanks for the reply Derek, it makes a lot of sense. Half the
frustration with being new to fishing is not knowing why certain
things happen. I'm back up in the area in about a fortnight so will
give it another
go.

Cheers

Likewise

Derek.Moody wrote:
In article , Likewise
wrote:

But at low tide the fish (bass amd mullet) were jumping around us
as we waded out.. The sea looked like it was boiling eventually,
but we caught nothing. Tried every lure we had, bought it in fast,
then slow, varying everything, but not one bite. They followed the
lures now and again, but didn't bite. They were jumping out of the
water 12 feet in front of us.

Had a similar experience on the W Dorset coast. Loads of fish
inshore but (apart from mackerel) nothing taken - though I did pull
out of one fish on a tiny fly.

There are zillions of pinhead fry inshore and at HT there were vast
quantities of seaweed maggots floating too. There is just too much
easy-catch, small, food around right now. Fish can feed themselves
by swimming aroud with their mouths open, they don't need to chase.

Within a fortnight the surviving fry will be four times the size and
the predators will have to chase again.

A couple of locals took a very small dinghy about two hundred yards
offshore to the main drop-off and came back with three bass taken on
small plugs. 3lb, 6lb and 12lb. They simply pottered along 'til
they saw a feeding shoal and drifted through it three times.

Any ideas on how we caught nothing? Our barbecue was reduced to
burgers from Lidl, sausages from Tesco...

On that diet you probably won't live to fish again.. ;-)

Cheerio,