A local pier

I fancied a go at the rays so after I picked the wife up from work I got the car packed and was away. Its only a 20 minute drive from my house to his swilly pier so I was suited and booted and fishing by midnight. Now I was expecting a bit of wind and some rain but after the first cast my tripod blew over, thankfully there was no damage to the rods, but the wind was getting stronger so I ended up lashing the tripod to the railings. Spotting bites was difficult and baits came back striped so at least the crabs where getting fed, but I did manage to hook a tiny dogfish. Blank beaten so out went fresh baits in the hope of a ray, meanwhile the rain started it wasn't bad at first but soon became a torrent. At this point there was a lot of floating weed about and it was getting caught on the line added to the strong wind and horizonal rain I decided to pack up early after 3 hours of s*** weather I was getting battered by the wind and rain. So wound in the first rod removed the weed and put it away, I then wound in the second rod which had even more weed on it. Once I got this mess up onto the pier it moved, somewhere in it was another doggie, it was soon released to back into the sea and with a break in the weather I rushed to the car and and headed home. A rough wet night but at least I got some fresh air and got fishing and to top it off I didn't blank, no rays this time but there's always another chance. I fished 3hours of the flood and high water was at 4.30am, baits were mackerel and sandeel.

Ye must have been fishing the racing tide too in those woeful conditions
But fair play at getting out for a bit

Massive effort - i was on a pier also but packed up after an hour and half with the wind gusting - no rain thankfully