It has been a week since I did any fishing. The weather was pretty bad, very, very heigh winds and worst of all too much seaweed in the ocean, from VRSA all the way to Praia de Cataiana, all you get is seaweed… Yesterday the wind died down, and seeing as how it is around full Moon, the weaves were quite big, the ocean quite strong. I went down to Praia da Alagoa, and there was still too much seaweed. So I dug up quite a few sand worms, and set out to browse the coast in search of a fishable location. I thought I would start with VRSA and drive West – it has to be clean somewhere!

To my surprise, the water at the VRSA beach was clear, not a blade of grass in sight! I set up 2 rods and started casting with sand worms. Again, I casted close, into the surf and had immediate bites… There were loads of small sargo about, and for about an hour I was getting a fish every cast. But all of them were small, around 15cm some even smaller – makes you wonder how can they take size 4 hook!!! At least none of them could swallow it – so there is that…  I also got two spotted bass – again, in the 20cm mark – so all small fry. Naturally, I released all the fish back and just enjoyed the action and the anticipation – there has got to be bigger fish there. Perhaps bigger bait would do the trick. On top of it all, as of 1^st June day time fishing from the beach is prohibited on account of beach goers – tourism in Algarve must take precedent, I get that – so I was merely making the most of the day while I still can. I will do another session this afternoon – the wind is still low and the tide quite heigh… Hope I have as much fun as yesterday…