Duration:6-30pm-12am
Tide:rising
Weather:lovely and mild, bright moon behind the clouds
Bait:frozen peeler, lug, rag ,squid
Rigs:single hook clipped down,pulley rigs, 2 hook flapper
Results:doggies, dabs, flounders, whiting, common smoothounds, starry smoothounds, and a baby tope
Report:Met up with Dave from the site at Jack Whites and headed to the mark.We were set up by 6-30pm and had this beach to ourselves,surprising as it had been fairly busy last week.Somewhere else must have been fishing well on Friday night
. We had fish on our first couple of casts, doggies for Dave and a doggie and a flounder(maybe a plaice?) for me. We were fishing 2 rods each and i had forgotten one of my beach reels and had to use a light spinning reel on the second rod. I put a 3 oz lead on a 2 hook flapper and let it roll around in the surf and i got fish on most casts all night with this, dabs, flounder, whiting, and including my smallest doggie yet, which i thought i had taken a piccie of , mustnt have pressed the button hard enough 
.The light reel was under serious pressure with doggies on some casts. Ger (Mitch) arrived just before Neil and introduced himself to meself and Dave. Nice to meet you Ger , didnt have much time to talk between the fish and it was getting dusk as you both arrived, but im sure we'll get better acquainted next time .There were plenty of doggies around and we hoped we would get through them to the smoothies,, if they were around . Neil was first in with a fine common smoothie (whats new ), then Ger got in on the act with another common. The smoothies must have been running through us ,,,cos Neil also got another one, this time a starry and i got a nice piccie of the two of them, with their Petzl Ultras and their smoothies(we werent going to be in the dark tonight 
). Then i had a knock on my distance rod and struck. As it pulled back and took line, i realised it was a smoothie and the battle began . I got it nearer shore and handed the rod to Dave for a moment , so that he could feel the power of the fish.He couldnt believe the strength of the fish and quickly handed me the rod to beach the fish. With some help from Dave i landed it and got a pic , then released it. The oul legs were like jelly after that . Then the smoothies went away and we were back to the doggies and flatties again.It was an hour and a bit 'till they returned and in the meantime Neil entertained us by catching a baby tope and telling us corny jokes 
Only joking Neil, your really funny ,,,,and in a good way Ger got some more smoothies and i followed up with a common ,a new species for me, the target of 30 is getting closer Dave was pulling in doggies all night, but unfortunately no smoothies. We came to the opinion that as we were all doing basically the same thing, using the same bait and tactics etc, that as Dave was using a 12.5 foot rod compared to out 15 footers, the extra distance gained with the bigger rods was vital. I'm no great caster,,, but i can get an xtra 20, 30 yds with the 15 footer and that was the difference here i think. The lads left a bit earlier, and myself and Dave stayed till about 12am, then hit the road home. A great evenings fishing , good company, lets do it again soon .Dave
nice going lads 
I reckon I just wasn't getting the baits out quite far enough with my poor casting, 
