Hello all,
This has been growing in my garden wall for quite a while now, and it's really starting to come up. It sort of looks like Japanese knotweed from photos I have seen, but I'm really not sure what it is.
If anybody could help it would be very appreciated.
Cornwall, UK.
This isn't my true PB Ballan, as I had a few larger specimens in the scilly's a couple of years ago.
However, this is my biggest shore caught Ballan from the Cornish mainland coast.
I have fished this area many times before, but always on ultra light LRF gear. 4lb line, 0.5-3g rated rod, 1000 size reel and small artifical worm and grub lures. The biggest fish I've produced from here on LRF gear is about 1.5lb.
This session, I took my bass rod and a handful of dying lugworm I had leftover and didn't want to bin. Firstly for the stench and secondly for value for money.. my plan was to cast them into the surf on a small snooded dropshot rig for a possible flatfish or bass on some small 1/0 mustad circles whilst I played around with the LRF gear in the meantime.
Not alot was happening on the artificials in the gully I was in. Nothing was hitting the lugworm at the mouth of the gully abit further into the surf either. I decided to switch things up and see if placing a heavily baited lugworm hook where I'd been dangling the artificials would make any difference.
The minute the dropshot hit the bottom I was in. It was a fish a drop for a good hour or so, which was surprising as I did try a couple of other areas thinking I was going to exhaust the small gully I kept producing fish from. Wrong! every other ledge was quiet, I quickly returned back to the old faithful and was back in again.
Finally after going through a lot of fish in the 0.5-2.5lb, the donkey of the gully came and smashed it. I missed a previous hit from him as he snatched the worm but took off to the top of the gully and didnt hook up. I was very pleased to end the day with him in hand!!
West Cornwall, UK.