LRF Wrasse on the Lizard 17-11-2011

With the wind forecast to pick up throughout the day, decided to head of for some sheltered fishing at one of my favorite spots out on the Lizard, West Cornwall. Arrived early morning, to fish an hour up on the high tide, with sunny conditions and flat calm waters, well within this large estuary mouth. The previous days days Easterly winds had churned the water up, and it was not the usual gin clear conditions, but better than the brown soup a couple days earlier.

Fished with the light gear, Nories Rockfish Bottom UL 1.8-7g rod, Daiwa '10 Certate 2506 loaded with Sunline Small Game 0.4PE. Started off with a Texas rigged Ecogear 2" BugAnt, on a size 4 EWG weedless hook, and a Zappu 1.8g bullet weight. Searching the rockline beneath the finger of rock I fished from, felt the familiar tap tap of the Wrasse, before hooking into the first of the day. Took a couple of small Wrasse on this lure;

Switched over to my go-to Wrasse lure, the 3" Jackson Delicious Shiner, in various colour patterns, on the same rig as above. Casting away from my perch, towards a partially submerged rock, let the lure drop, deadstick for around 5-10 seconds, and a big take. The fish was away from cover, able to bring it up to the surface, could see this fish was of a decent size, turned out the biggest of the day by some way. No scales with me today as fishing with the minimum, guessing between 3.5-4lb, nice and fat!

Safely returned, fished on with the same lure, moving from rock to rock, taking a few more small fish;

Final fish of the day was taken on the smallest lure, rigged an Ecogear Sansun worm on a 1.8g Ecogear Shirasu Fine size 8 jig head, worked vertically off the bottom;

Also popped out a couple more times earlier in the week, in tougher conditions. Fished near to Penzance, at a deep water rock and weed mark that has produced good fish for me previously. There were strong winds, and a decent swell rolling in, with some good soaking over the high tide period.

Fishing with plugs, rod choice was the Daiwa morethan Branzino Urban Side Custom 87LML 5-24g, paired with a Daiwa '10 Certate 2508RH. I had recently spooled the reel up with a new braid, Sunline Momentum 4x4 1.0PE 16lb. Great bright colour, and behaved very well in it's first outing in the wind and waves.

Landed a few Pollack on a Jackson Maxim vib lure, but the fish were scarce. As the tide dropped, rigged up a Nories 4" Power Balance on a Deps 3/8oz Head Lock jig, and pulled out a couple of Wrasse, the bigger of the two pictured.

Finally, a few shots of the great Cornish Coast, from a spot I fished a few days back, but pulled of a total blank! Love fishing these types of areas, with the impressives cliffs and great rocky features.