23-02-2004, 12:41 PM
I went floundering on saturday at chelsea. I picked a terrible day for it!
Waves were rolling in and the wind was about 15 knots and westerly (so head on!)
I thought, "well i am here now so why not have a shot".
Anyway my first disaster was trying to turn on my torch. I was having a hard time connecting the clips to the battery terminals so i dropped my spear in the water to free up my hands. Then when I finally got the torch running my spear had drifted off. Took me about 15 minutes to find it! It had drifted about 30 metres away and was hard to find in the waves.
Anyway, after that bad start i started fishing. I actually managed to catch 1 flounder which was a miracle in the conditions. It swam right up to me. That is why i saw it. I also saw 1 flathead and I caught 4 small garfish. There was lots of garfish about but I didn't have a net handy.
Cheers, Glen <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whistling.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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Waves were rolling in and the wind was about 15 knots and westerly (so head on!)
I thought, "well i am here now so why not have a shot".
Anyway my first disaster was trying to turn on my torch. I was having a hard time connecting the clips to the battery terminals so i dropped my spear in the water to free up my hands. Then when I finally got the torch running my spear had drifted off. Took me about 15 minutes to find it! It had drifted about 30 metres away and was hard to find in the waves.
Anyway, after that bad start i started fishing. I actually managed to catch 1 flounder which was a miracle in the conditions. It swam right up to me. That is why i saw it. I also saw 1 flathead and I caught 4 small garfish. There was lots of garfish about but I didn't have a net handy.
Cheers, Glen <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whistling.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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