Jelly and Alfie do the Conga

Forum members Dave Jackets And Rob Quinn decided on an evening session at Bempton Bottoms. Conditions were on the rough side and cod were on the cards but what followed was totally unexpected with a conger eel and a double figure cod falling for Daves large cart baits. Heres the report which you can also read over in our forum.

I had decided on a few hours fishing after work this afternoon and Dave chose to change his plans to fish old hall and join me on the rock instead. Conditions looked good with no wind and a nice sea with good colour

About an hour into the session Dave got a cracking bite and set about cranking alfie ( his beloved alvey )  I was baiting up and shouted if he needed a hand ??  “Its only a mop he replied”  However looking at the bend in his rod I decided to shimmy down to pluck it out for him as there was a decent sea running. Looking for the fish in my headlight I shouted “its a bloody ling” !! then quickly realised my mistake and shouted ” its a F*****G conger

After a bit of a tussle I managed to pluck it from the surf for him

We estimated a good 7lb and it was returned to fight another day with Dave buzzing ! Eventually he manged to get baited up and fishing again !! within 2 minutes he struck into another solid bite on the braid and once again the rod hooped over and he was in. I asked if he needed a hand again and he said he might this time, judging by the bend and thumps on his rod and the slow, steady retrieve on the alvey I thought he might be into another !!

Unfortunatley it was not to be and turned out to be this nice mop of 11lb 8oz !!

Dave’s first double and well deserved. well done mate ! No more bites after that apart from a lobster for dave that ditched its hooked claw at the last second !! A blank for me but It was a pleasure to land a fish like that for a good mate