Mair Mini's

Bait - Prawn and Lugworm
Rigs - Sliding Float & Paternoster
Tide - Mid Tide >>>High
Place - Cellardyke

After the successful(ish) first attempt at mini species at Arbroath cliffs a couple of weeks back  I thought another bash at expanding the mini species list was in order. Especially good preparation for the Skate trip next week :)

I'd asked my wife to come along in the vain hope of getting her interested in fishing (a bit) so it was to be an easy spot and my first thought was Anstruther. So with the car packed we were off at the crack of lunchtime, but when we got to Anster harbour it seemed that there was some sort of gala on with pipe bands etc. Though both piers were empty bar a couple of folk we could see fishing we couldn't find anywhere to park up. So Cellardyke was the next choice quick drive over to find a parking space right next to the harbour wall.

So a quick trot along the wall to the end to find a nice calm see and that the tide was in just far enough to fish without venturing down to the rocks.

Had the mini rod out with a two hook paternoster (size 4 and 6 hooks) and a sliding float rig on the bass rod (size 1). Hoping for anything on the mini rod and wrasse on the float rod.

Quite quickly the mini rod was tugging in my hands and as I reeled in I could see a double shot coming up in the shallow water and two shanny's (I think) quickly appeared.

One bigger...

and one smaller...

Mini rod was re-baited and I passed it to Alison to see if she could catch her first fish. Time to take in the very neglected float rig expecting the bait to have been stripped only to find a lump I firstly mistook for some seaweed masking the hook. On closer inspection it turned out to be my first Sea Scorpion (Long Spined I think but not sure) so another species for this years list :)

Ugly beggar.

At this point my wife piped up 'something is tugging on the line' so I told her to reel it in and lo and behold another shanny made it's starring appearance as her first catch.

It was a lovely day, bit breezy, but we could only stay a couple of hours before heading home. I did try spinning for a while after I saw some gulls diving quite close in but never had any interest at all. Still a very enjoyable short session and a big difference from the skate trip planned for next week.

A few more pics.