Fishing report 4:
Date: 22/3/11
Time started: 6pm
Weather: pretty sunny, no wind (warm 13C daytime)
Tide: low at about 6pm and incoming thereafter (obviously)
Mark: The wall at the end of the west pier and just inside the harbour
Rods: two (four in total)
Rigs: various ledger things, one with added float
Hook sizes: 1, 2/0, 4/0 with trace.
Bait: Mackerel and a nice wedge
Time finished: 1030pm
Results: A small cod and a whiting (both before nightfall).
Other comments: A lot of small tugs and bait going missing. A guy came up and started asking questions which usually gets me suspicious but it turns out he'd been fishing there all his life and said that the place 90 degrees to my right was good for conger, by the steps inside the lip of the west pier. Also said that the middle of the harbour channel is good for flatfish. We were probably a bit early for the tide seeing as it was at its lowest around sunset. I'm not sure if my mate's screeming girlfriends and ridiculous pop tunes...
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