snatcher Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 (edited) A few of you like my UK reports so here is a true belter from 2007 "Before I put pen to paper on this one I know there will be doubters amongst you All I can say it is a true account of what happened this afternoon. Decided to have an hour or so at the end of the Mull to get some mackerel for a barbie back at the caravan. Climbed down to one of my favourite marks and tied on a toby spinner and chucked out. On my 4/5 cast got my first mackerel and popped it into a small rock pool beside me. Cast out again, I was keeping the lure as low down in the water as possible because I also had pollack at the back of my mind Next thing the rod was nearly pulled out of my hands and a fish streaked off with a lot of line. Now bearing in mind I was using a Greys 10' spin(15-60g) and a fixed spool loaded with 15lb mono I could not bully the fish! After about one hour I very slowly started to get a bit of line back. All I was getting now was a bit of head shaking. The tide rip did not help mind. As this was happening recieved a couple of phone calls and even managed to talk to Guy and Mick telling them of my predicament. After about 90 mins got a few glimpses of a dark shape under the water about 25 yds out. Risked a few photos with my free hand but on reviewing them you could not see the fish. Now I did not expect to land the fish with the gear I was using. The best result I could have got would have been to scramble down and unhook it in the water. All I really wanted was to get a photo of the damm thing. It was not to be. The inevitable happened "twang":sad. After a few minutes collecting my senses I tied on another toby and set back to my original task of a bagful of mackerel for the barbie,thinking that the tope hook up was a total one off. Boy o boy was I wrong. First cast hooked into another tope. Same as the first fish it smoked a lot of line on an initial run. After about 30 mins another two anglers turned up and took a real interest in what was happening. Did not catch the guys names but one lives in Port William and smokes a pipe. His mate was retired out of the fire service due to illness. Anyone know them ? Anyway had a bit crack on with them whilst fighting this second tope and I asked him if he could take a couple of pictures of the scrap. This is what he came up with After about 90 mins of fighting the fish I appeared to be slowly winning. As fate would have it I was also pulling in a lobster bouy and rope. Damm. I gave the fish slack line to see if would untangle from the rope but it did not. Eventually the 15lb mono gave up the ghost!!! I did expect it mind. The whole experience blew my mind. I had been there approx 3 hours and had been fighting fish the whole time!!! Time was getting on and I did not want to risk another hook up with a tope. All I can think of is that there must have been a very large pack of tope just in front of me. Would appreciate your thoughts on this strange afternoons fishing I had. Back over in two weeks and will be going back to the same mark - WITH MY BEACHCASTER AND A WIRE TRACE " There you go then you ozzie fishos - a strange one or what John Edited February 9, 2015 by snatcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbdshroom Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Nice report. That's a lot of back-breaking action for it all to end so tragically. Nothing quite like feeling hooked up to something decent in size. Looking forward to the next installment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooked-Up Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Cool, had no idea there were sharks of any kind in those waters. What other large fish species 1mt plus do you have lurking around there? Mad report too but what a shame you couldnt get the pic of the sharks, bugger! good read mate, thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snatcher Posted November 30, 2014 Author Share Posted November 30, 2014 Cool, had no idea there were sharks of any kind in those waters. What other large fish species 1mt plus do you have lurking around there? Mad report too but what a shame you couldnt get the pic of the sharks, bugger! good read mate, thank you. We do have various shark types in UK waters - here is a link http://www.sharktrust.org/en/sharks_in_uk_waters The common ones are dogfish,smoothounds,bull huss and tope. The larger sharks are mako,thresher,porbeagle,blue. Great whites are very rare but have been seen but not caught as far as I know. Tope are very popular as a sport fish. Fish which go to 1m+ would include cod,bass,,salmon,common skate,halibut. Pollack and coalfish can be about the 1m mark John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fragmeister Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Bad luck John, So often its the bigger fish that take the lighter rigs. Cheers Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snatcher Posted December 5, 2014 Author Share Posted December 5, 2014 Bad luck John, So often its the bigger fish that take the lighter rigs. Cheers Jim I know mate,been bust up a couple of times in oz now !!!! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pomey_git Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 never heard of spinning for Tope! Thats awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harold Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Great to read of your adventure. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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