Just my second trip to St Andrews pier with the last being a flounder fest I was hopeful for a few fish. Two main rods out off the pier end one left to the rockier stuff and one a bit right onto sand plus the mini species rod just over the side of the pier wall. Nothing for the first half hour or so until my mini species rod buckled immediately after a re-bait. It is an extremely light rod so I knew it was nothing massive but certainly not a blenny lol. Soon a double hook up of two wee pollock appeared. Released then rebaited and again almost immediately another slightly larger single pollock appeared. Not exactly ground breaking big fish but pretty fun on the light rod whilst I waited on something to take on the big rods and there were the usual progression of folk coming for a chat to break the time.
Not long to wait for a thumping bite on my left rod over the rocky ground, strike, hook up and I thought I'd missed as I cold feel no weight on the line until I saw the unsightly sea scorpion coming in. Must be a very powerful fish for its size as it weighed next to nothing but its bite was that of a much bigger fish. Ugly beggar but my 18th species of the year :)Fairly quickly afterwards my other big rod went and there was a wee bit of weight on it this time and a couple of thumps on the rod on the way in, up the pier side and a nice plump flounder about a lb.
I stayed another couple of hours but that was it on the fish front, not even another bites just three bait robbing crabs.
Looking forward to a Jedi trip west next weekend, hopefully something a bit bigger :)
