Riverside Drive, Dundee

Another short trip along the road to Riverside Drive. I decided to fish behind the football pitches if there was space as I hadn't been there for a few weeks. There were a few other guys already fishing, but someone must've left not long before as there was a nice big gap between a couple of groups of folk fishing. Rods set up and oot about 3 hours before high tide. It was a wee bit breezy and cloudy but the rain stayed away and it was pretty pleasant sitting on the car's tailgate watching the rods.

After about an hour a car pulled up next to me and the driver turned out to be bobsygreen from the shoreangler forum. It's always nice putting a face to a forum name and chat face to face to folk rather than on the forum.

I'd left my baits out a lot longer than planned and thought I'd missed a couple of bites but I got a nice double shot of small flounder. These were followed a couple of casts later by another small flounder. The weed wasn't bad at all for most of the session, but started as the tide turned and grew gradually worse.  When I got another bite and landed a small coalie, with the weed getting worse all the time I decided to pack up and head home. First coalie of the year (never going to be the last lol) so that was a bonus for the species list :)

Tay in the Rain

Tide - >>H>>
Bait - Bluey, Herring, Razor

Well I popped over for another bash yesterday afternoon for another short sesh over high tide. Lovely morning that turned to torrential rain about five mins after I left home! Sods Law still in for a penny and all that. There were a lot of lads fishing behind the footie pitches as I passed but Riverside Drive itself was empty. Baits out quick smart, as ever and nothing apart from pishing rain for ages. Then a couple of massive weed monsters that almost dragged both rods over. Nightmare. An hour in I almost packed up but I didn't want the blank. Not long after I got a fairly sharp take and landed an average sized Tay flounder of 20cm fell to razor, shortly followed by another on herring. Persistence pays off :)

About that time the rain slackened off and eventually the sun came back out and it turned into a fairly nice day again (for a while). After slack water the weed came on badly again and I started casting much shorter to avoid the worst of it. Very quickly that my smaller rod had gone in it was dancing about and Ianded a flounder/codling combo. Never had a codling myself on the Tay, only a quarter pound or so but not a flounder for a change. Rebait and cast back to the same spot and another two flounders quickly appeared. The rain looked like it was going to re-appear then so I decided to pack up and head home four flounders and a wee codling to the good. Better than last time and worth the rain.

Apologies for the single photo but baw jaws here deleted the rest as uploading them.

Another Day at the Tay

Location - Riverside Drive, Dundee
Tide - 2hrs>>Low
Bait - Herring

Well I had a couple of hours to kill after work yesterday while the wife was off to the gym so I took myself off down to Riverside Drive. I arrived about 2 hours or so before low tide and only really had time for 1.5 to 2 hrs fishing. It looked a lovely day with the sun out, but the wind had increased and it was fairly chilly. Both rods out quick smart in the usual pattern of one closer in and one further out.

Just as I had cast out both rods a fairly sizable flock of swans appeared to my left, flew in an arc over the rail bridge and landed in front of me (but a fair out way past my lines thankfully). Nice sight as I've mostly only seen swans in ones or two's and pretty impressive in flight together.

Still to cut a long story short I spent most of the time chatting to my cousin who poped down to say hello. One flounder caught and one big bite missed (prob trout) whilst landing the flounder. Why not the other way round lol.

Nice way to spend a couple of hours, hopefully a longer session next time out.