After having returned from The Netherlands, there was again loads to do around the house – it is autumn after all and leaves are all over the yard, lawn needs tending to, etc, etc… Again, in the evening I would rather fish than write about it so here comes another compound report.
I hit the beach in the evening of the first day I was back – NATURALLY!!!!:😊😊😊
The weather was calm, ocean to. I did not expect much in terms of catch, I just wanted to have some fun – standard setup, 3 roods, squid, white clam and white worm for bait. I was also thinking I can fillet the first mucharra I catch and wait a bit… Started around 4 and went on until 8 in the evening. To my dismay I did not get A SINGLE NIBBLE!!!! It was as though the ocean was empty! Even after it got dark there was absolutely no life, which is not natural, of course… Oh, well, off I went home, a bit rested and understandably confused. But hay! I had not been here for more than 6 weeks, so I had no idea of how things developed…
So next day, I hopped on a boat from Vila Real de Santo Antonio with a friend to check what was happening in deeper water.
We stayed around about 20m deep and tried fishing and jigging for squid. And even there the fish were completely inactive! Almost not a nibble. But squid jigging got quite interesting. I got octopus, big squid, big cuttlefish and quite regularly so, every few minutes there would be commotion on the boat… Some of the bigger squid and the cuttlefish were quite difficult to bring up in strong current, and would swim around… it was a nice change.
