It has been QUITE a while since I did any fishing or posted anything - due to the COVID lockdown situation, fishing was prohibited (!!!???? as it is SUCH a well-known group sport!!!!????) in Portugal...
On the 5th April fishing was finally allowed and after having gone through considerable hardship to renew my licence, and even more so to reorganize my tackle and remember where all the things I needed were, I was able to hit the beach!
On the 5th I had my first outing - but this was a discovery expedition - I needed to get back in touch with the ocean, try to re-establish my feel for the flow... And sure enough, I got only one spotted bass...
As I was getting ready to leave, it was starting to get too warm, and, more importantly the tide was going down rapidly, the fish started biting... Hmmm, a very strange development... Activity with the outgoing tide and almost no action with upcoming tide...
That evening I went back to check if it would be better at night - and it was not, there were tons of Mucharra and fishing was more or less impossible - as soon as the bait hit the water it would be chopped off by these little buggers.
So next day, I went out in the afternoon with outgoing tide and had great time - in a few hours I got 2 sargo, two spotted bass, unavoidable 2 mucharra (EVEN AT DAYTIME!!!!
) and 2 Greater weever... All in all, a very nice session after so much time browsing the internet and fishing for lures, hooks, tackle...
