10pm till 3am:
HW @10 so fished the ebb.:
Quite calm, nice breeze:
60 rag and the most expensive frozen bait ever!:
2 Hook paters, pulley pennel, running ledger and one hook clipped.:
Me 5 Flounder, Fuller 6 Flounder, 2 3 Bearded Rockling, 1 Whiting and 1 Doggie :
We both wanted to fish this beach for ages now and got the opportunity last night. We spent our childhood down there and that's where we first fished so many years ago. After really getting into the fishing this year we had vowed to return. Seeing as our mam has a mobile home fairly close by we had the accommodation covered.
The tide did not really suit us but with one of my daughters with me we took what we could get. I had picked up some juicy rags on Saturday and forgot a collection from my freezer. I picked up a few bits down there but it was really leftovers by the time I got to the shop.
Soon as I had my little one settled and minded we headed down and set up tow rods each. I know that there are loads of sand eels on this beach so I was ledgering them in close with rag on a 2 hook flapper every other cast. At distant I had mac or Squid or a mixture. My brother was casting just behind the breakers with rag and lobbing mack out at distant.
In was hoping for a bass because I know they are here but maybe my timing or technique was wrong. When we started the wind and current were very strong and we were both into big clumps of weed. Luckily this died down after about an hour or so. There was a steady flow of flounder all night though. Fuller managed to pick up a flounder of 33cm and a rockling at 27cm a double personal best for him. He also picked up his second dogfish of the week and it was much bigger then his last. We had no time to measure him because we struggled to get the hook out so it was a quick return for him.
By about 2ish we were running out of bait and started to pack up. On both our last casts we reeled in another flounder each. Something was knocking my rod at distance and stripping the bait but I had no luck. I even changed my hook size down but still no joy.
Still delighted for my bro getting a good mix of species and two personal bests in one session.It was great staying down there though and not having to load up the vans with smelly gear and drive up the N11. We had a cup of tea and a sambo each in front of us in about 20 minutes of leaving the beach. A big thank you to mammy Fuller for babysitting and the fry this morning. I'm looking forward to a few more sessions there this summer.:
Top pic is a Dab
the rocklings are both definately 5 bearded the two beards on the snout as Ronald said tend to stick flat to the skin if you rub your finger over the snout they usually pop up 
But I have all summer with free accommodation to keep trying 
