In article , Howie
m.invalid wrote:
Hi all,

I'm quite new to this sea-fishing 'malarky', having only really
done coarse fishing as a teenager, but now, - having got a nice
boat to fish from around Torbay, Im struggling to catch ANYTHING
at the moment!

This -is- about the leanest month of the year for inshore fishing.

For the moment try working lightish gear around rocky areas and headlands
looking for early pollock. Pretty soon the plaice will arrive on the
skerries and then spread out in the area. Black bream and turbot will be on
the cards in about a month and then the sea will generally wake up and the
season will last until about the next new year...

I don't mind what I catch at the moment, because it's all a bit
of a novelty, but I'm getting very frustrated at catching nothing
for hours on end, with 4 lines in the water!

In your place I'd have one line in with a ball lead around a pound and a
*big* redgill 4 metres behind it as I pottered along the coast at about
2-3 knots learning the lie of the land and hoping for a bonus bass or reef
pollock.

Cheerio,

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