Wee trip to say hello to Sharpie - Day 2

Day two started with unexpected torrential rain, but as there wasn't much wind we thought a conger bash at Cullen harbour. That was quickly needed to be re thought as when we arrived it was obviously not safe on the harbor wall. Three hours to high tide and waves already coming over the wall. The picture doesn't do them justice but there were some huge lumps of water hitting the harbour and streaming across Cullen bay towards the beach. Quite an awesome sight to watch but far to heavy a sea to fish nearby, or so we thought. Next stop was Portknockie.

We didn't think we had a chance of fishing there and only went for some photos (did get one I am pretty fond of). The headland here was actually providing the harbour with more protection than we thought, and though the outer wall and breakwater were off limits the inner harbour and fishing into the harbour mouth were definitely safe.  After watching for a while just to make sure we set up. One rod each into the harbour mouth behind the breakwater and one each into the harbour hoping for a conger.

Sharpie made the break through first with a small coalie followed by a couple of angry shore crabs. I got my own blank off with a tiny pollock. Still they are all fish lol.

All this time Sharpies conger rod was getting we knock knock knocks, ratchet drags but nothing more. I was fairly sure it was either a large crab or lots of small fish and decided to test the theory by changing out the conger rig far another flapper.

Sure enough this quickly led to the culprits unveiling with a coalie quickly tacking the bait as soon as the lead hit the bottom. Lots and lots of coalies later the only other 'species' to appear was an edible crab. Pity the sea state stopped us with our other plans but a fun few hours. never the less.

Hopefully cod o'clock after tomorrows trip...