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Post by wayner on Mar 16, 2009 20:30:34 GMT
Last year my brother in law was feathering for mackerel in Chi harbour. He pulled in as many sandeels as mackerel which set me thinking. He was a bit vague on his whereabouts but thought it was nr the sailing club? Iv only ever feathered sandeels for livebait in Alderney, great fun actually. Anyone tried it locally & if so any info cheers?
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Post by solehunter on Mar 16, 2009 20:49:48 GMT
Not much use to you, but out of interest, there was a little spot just off freshwater bay on the island where we used to pick up a good few launce on feathers while mackying. On most drifts on the flood tide around the same spot on different days we had some. wriggled like hell on the hook.
Good luck on finding some. I know they trawl them around boscomb peir in bournemouth.
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Post by Coddo on Mar 16, 2009 20:54:05 GMT
sounds like fun!!
in my bassing days when we used to feather them up on the sand banks out of weymouth, we used to bounce the lead on the bottom to puff the sand up, this seems to wake them up from the sand and then... bang!!!
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Post by wayner on Mar 16, 2009 21:30:30 GMT
Im intending to broaden my fishing to a bit more then anchoring a mark so some live sandeel to drift the banks would be nice. Iv heard they frequent the sandbanks in the harbours but no one has been able to give me any definate idea on that one. Thanks for the replies lads.
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Post by stevieboy on Mar 16, 2009 21:36:35 GMT
You'd think it'd be worth lobbing a string of small Sabiki's off Ryde pier during the warmer months.
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Post by solehunter on Mar 16, 2009 21:46:54 GMT
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Post by bucketchucker on Mar 21, 2009 20:51:29 GMT
When I lived at Lee on Solent I used to feather for mackerel along Stokes Bay. My son and I reglarly had launce sized sandeel there during July and August. However because i was workin in Birmingham at the time and the mackerel was taken there to give to work colleagues, we used to though the sand eel back.
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Post by eccles on Mar 23, 2009 21:39:36 GMT
Have heard this before but yet to try it. I suspect that you need to be fishing for them over fairly shallow sand banks as we have at both ends of Hayling. Will maybe give it a try when we get the dinghy out in April hopefully.
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Post by AdamG on Mar 24, 2009 23:15:17 GMT
You'd think it'd be worth lobbing a string of small Sabiki's off Ryde pier during the warmer months. tried that off the station with the microskins. the mackeral and pollock take a big interest. never managed a sandeel on them. may take a club boat and try |
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