Portsmouth LRF

So I've always knew there was a few goldsinny around a certain spot in old portsmouth. However, I also knew they were fairly difficult to weed out amongst the smaller corkwing wrasse and blennies that tend to patrol the area.  That being said I've always hoped on managing it, and this week I actually did. The session started well, and earlier than the physical fishing had. Throughout my working day I'm lucky enough to overlook portsmouth harbour and I had seen birds working closer to the camber than I ever had before, so that was my first stop, after 5 or so minutes the birds reappeared and there was bass surfacing around me, managed to tempt one from what turned out to be a very shy shoal. The ecogear straw tail doing the work. Once the shoal dispersed I switched to the isome and a size 12 barbless hook to dropshot, this was actually an attempt at targeting the previously mentioned goldsinny. Now, that's not to say I wasn't both shocked and over the moon when on ...

Yo! Have had a few sessions out on the water since my last post so I'm trying to remember the ins and outs as I post this. My most interesting session was a couple of Sunday's back where I was just scratching around for species. It was going pretty averagely when I noticed a stream of bait appear, I am talking millions of tiny whitebait turning the water black. I'm not going to lie that I got a little bit excited at this stage, however after 5 mins or so of casting in, over and around the bait nothing had remotely happened. My heart began to break. However, suddenly the tip of my rockfish ul was violently doubled over and I had a frantic run. Now my first thought was a mackerel which was fantastic as id never had one on the lrf set up, but it was it's close cousin in the Aji! Now if you've never caught one, I urge you too. They are great little torpedoes that tailwalk, dive deep and swim at you rapidly! I did eventually end up with my mackerel that I'd wanted...