I've been hearing some reports of sea runners recently so spent a couple of sessions trying to get into some myself.
A couple of weekends ago I went out and got to the Cadbury area just after first light. I'm land based so I started walking along the shore flicking a small hard bodied lure in a fan out from each place I stopped with a constant twitching retrieve. Eventually got to a small rocky outcrop and got a good hit about 1 metre out from the shore. A solid brown immediately started crocodiling on the spot, he didn't run out at all. After a nervous few minutes and cursing that I hadn't brought my net, I got him to shore. It was a solid silver sea runner about the 60cm mark. Didn't take a photo (of course) and he lived to fight another day.
This weekend I headed out again in the cold with the fly rod this time, and one of the currently popular 'gamechanger' flies that I had yet to try out. This time hit the marshy shore around the Bridgwater bridge. After a frustrating couple of hours with nothing but very cold fingers I finally got a hit. The fish hit the fly off the shore a bit, in what appeared to be a bit of a wind lane. Great fight on the fly gear, and having brought the net this time, I got him in the bag. This one came home for dinner.
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Interestingly, when I cleaned him, he was full of black beetles. Anyone got any detail on this? I would have expected a sea runner to full of whitebait, not insects.
Cheers.
