After my last session in Altura, Praia da Alagoa, I naturally went back to try again. However, the following day the ocean was almost calm, water was crystal blue, and I knew that does not bod well for fishing. I had 3 rods out, 1 2 hook system and two single hook long line systems and as it usually is the case, only action I saw was a single bite and a single seabream on red worm, and on top of that, it was on the 2 hook system – go figure!
Then I skipped a day, as I was not quite motivated…
Yesterday I decided to try the Gilão River in Tavira, just North of the 125 bridge – same spot where I had something pull in my feeder last time I was there.
This time I had loads of chum in the form of my old bait, so I threw in some shrimp, squid, clam, mussels… It seemed that all I could attract was mullet, as I got a few bites on red sand worm, but that was the extent of it. After it got dark, mullet stopped biting – there is lots of light there and all the fish seemed to rise to the surface and play there, while my baits were on the bottom. When I finally got a bite, it was a seabass… I knew they were around, but this 15cm bass is not what I was aiming for.
