Fran's blog

Fishing Rods

I began fishing last winter, when I bought a fishing rod for surf casting. Since I came to this city with sea, I’ve being seeing fishermen on the beaches and ports, and I wanted to try it. So I began fishing just with that rod and some hints that I found through the Internet.

The result was a disaster. In all that winter I fished just a little eel that I returned to the sea, so I put the rod in his bag until this winter… On November I’ve one lucky day on a beach that’s not common to fish nothing. But that night I did it. I fished three little “sargos” (Diplodus sargus sargus) -white seabream-, I released the two more little and sacrificed only the bigger. As I do not want the fish suffer too much, I did try to kill it hitting it with a stick that I found on the sand, but I think it was even worse… I finally cut its nape with a knife and its agony finished.

Well, despite that the fact was that I fished three nice fishes, so I began to go more frequently to that beach. I even bought a second rod, bigger than the first one. But from that day to today I’ve not fished nothing. At least I’ve done some friends, and now I do not go fishing alone usually.

Last night I was on “Musel” trading port on Gijón (Spain). You need a insurance card to go in, and I bought my one (€14,00) the day before because many people says that in that port there’re a lot of fishes, so I was anxious to try. The result again was that I did fish nothing, but my friend at least fished two little “aligotes” (Pagellus Acarne) -Axillary seabream-, but big enough to be fried. He used korean worm on his little hooks (n.3). I began using sardine with bigger hooks (n.5/0), but after its two captures I put n.3 hooks with koeran worms also on one of my rods, but it seemed like “aligotes” was not there yet when I did that. I keep on trying for two hours more, using both korean worm and sardine. Even I did try last 20 minutes using squid, just with one rod while I was gathering up the other rod and the rest of my fishing accessories, without luck. Moreover, I lost two leads.

So, there was no fishes for me… again!

Late night I’ve a knightmare: I was in a place full of seabasses (Dicentrarchus labrax), and I tried to fish one of them. I could see them there on the transparent watter, they was hunting and eating another fishes so there was a great chance for fish some of them, but every time I’ve my rod prepared, the fishes moves to another location far from my hooks, but visible to my eyes. Then I move to that new location, and try again, but fishes moves another time far away… and so on… I pursued them from one place to another but was unable to catch them…

Sad, but the man of the fishing shop were I usually bought accesories told me hours before that this winter is being particularly bad for fishing, so I’ll keep on trying anyway…