LRF Weymouth Harbor (Monday 19th May - Sunday 25th May 2014)

Well yet another productive week LRF at Weymouth Harbor! I have been fishing a stretch of water from Brewers Queue to the Weymouth rowing club all week. Mostly nights after school. I can safely say that if you went down there tomorrow you would defiantly hook into a Goby. That’s the majority of what I have been catching this week. Goby after Goby. So I decided to target a different type of fish. Something new. Something I had never caught before. Flounder! I set about finding one of these flat shy creatures. Half way through last week I worked my way from brewers Queue to Weymouth Rowing club backwards and forwards, cast after cast, rain or shine. The first 3 attempts I still only hooked my Goby’s and the occasional Tompot . But after all the hard work searching and learning how to catch one of these fish, it finally paid off. As I caught my first ever and PB LRF Flounder. To catch this fish and the Goby’s and Tompot I used a basic split shot to hook rig with Pink ISOME.

Once I had dropped my hook into the water I jiggled it about a few times and then waited. I had a bite. And another one, another one, another one. At this point I lifted into the fish not realising what it was. I just thought I had hooked into some more seaweed as the rod was bending over with no pull as if there was a fish on the end.  I reeled in and to my amazement there was a flounder on the end. I quickly reached for my landing net. Which I bought before I set about searching for this Flounder. I netted the fish, landed it and took some quick pictures before releasing it back. There was people watching me as I release the fish. They said “why did you not keep the fish for eating" I replied “it pleases me more to put a fish back and watch it swim off than having it for my dinner or selling it and having £5 in my pocket. When releasing a fish I now that it will go on to spawn making more fish improving my sport. If you keep all the fish then there will be no more left to catch. I just fish for the sport of it”. 

Release of the flounder !

On my way home I bumped into a chap painting the sailing boats in the harbour where I had been fishing. I walked over to him and saw how fantastic his pantings were. They were so good I would buy one! The next Leonardo Da Vinci !!

Last Monday I ventured out onto the Stone Pire to see what was kicking around while my brother fished the Weymouth Angling Society’s weekly Monday Junior comp. While I was there I gave the LRF a go. I caught only one Sea Scorpion. I still think it is too early to catch the Wrasse of there on LRF yet. But maybe in a few weeks time.

 While I was down there I spotted a rather large jellyfish. As the photograph will show. Now I am not sure if having these bad boys around will affect the fishing there. There is a link at the bottom of this paragraph which will take you to a page on how to identify jellyfish, weather they sting or not and there general background.

Jellyfish guide - http://www.mcsuk.org/downloads/wildlife/Jellyfishguide.pdf

Now just to finish of incase anybody didn’t see it. I went down to film the baby fish which turned out to be baby Goby’s at the fleet last Saturday. I stuck my Gopro into the water and hoped for the best. When placing my SD card into my computer I was stunned to find this footage!!

And don't forget pepole that on the 7th of june Henry Gilby is coming to Chesil Bait 'n' Tackle for the day to give advice and chat everything lure. Well worth popping into see him. There will also be a raffle with a top prize of a Sky road. All funds razed will go to Cancer research ! Also talking about Chesil bait. I posted on my face book page a few days ago saying how lucky we are to live in weymouth, and how far people travel to fish hear. Well in the shop today I met some people who traveled all the way from Hiywycombe. nearly 140 miles to fish down hear. Mainly Chesil Beach. That must turn on some light bulbs?? Get out fishing !!!!