First up was a trip to relatives, and I grabbed an hour one evening on an urban section of canal. Good fun exploring the stretch, and I managed to catch half a dozen plump little perch, biggest about 8ozs.
Next was something I have really been looking forward to - my first trip to the seaside with the LRF gear.
Considering that it was LRF articles and forums that first inspired me to go and buy some ultra light kit, it's taken me quite a while to cast a lure into saltwater. But, on a windy June day, I found a spot in Morecambe Bay where the water isn't a mile from the shore, and flicked out a hopeful jig. I didnt have to wait long either, because halfway through the retrieve and the line tightened, and the rod tip started nodding.
As I got the fish under the rod tip, it started to put up a proper scrap, great fun on such a light rod. I few moments later and I had landed my first marine species - a flounder of about a pound.
I'd certainly found a good spot, because I caught another six in as many casts before the rain started and it was time to head back to the van. Great start though. All fish falling to either a Power Isome or a Berkeley Fish Fry.
Finally, during a short holiday trip to North Wales at the weekend, I spent an hour or so one evening exploring a rocky beach next to our campsite. In the scour behind a particularly large rock, and at after several times of asking and nibbling the end of my lures, I caught my first mini-species. I think it is a common blenny.
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