People: myself and Mark
Duration: 11pm - 3am
Tide:low tide onward
Weather: rough, surf. SE i think
Bait: crab, crab and more crab
Rigs: 3.0 pulley pennel
Results: 2 small hounds, and one 7 pound bass
Originally was targeting smoothhound but when i arrived the conditions where just right for bass. fished two rods, long and short. few hounds at first. around 2am i baited up a big crab and put it out about 30 yards. not even five minutes gone, bang first bass of the year for me.
Second Session
People: myself and corbyeire
Duration: 2pm - 4pm
Tide:just after high tide according to easy tide which i'm convinced was wrong all weekend
Weather: calm sunny, few small showers
Bait: crab
Rigs: 3.0 pulley pennel
Results: nothing for me, brian got a small plaice and a gunard
Went down to meet a fellow forum angler. brought a bit of bait used it all and got nothing except wet during one of the showers. good chat though and finding out how crap the fishing out wst was. i always thought it was a fishing mecca.
Third Session
People: myself, Mark and Victor (ferns angler)
Duration: 11pm - 4am
Tide:low tide on, or a least what easy tide told me. i think it was completely rubbish perdiction
Weather: calm with a cold NW west
Bait: crab
Rigs: 3.0 pulley pennel
Results: LSD, 2 Small Hounds, 3.5 pound Thronback Ray
My god that ray was heavy to pull in. not much fighting but it sucked itself to the bottom and it took a lot to get him up to the beach. was delighted as i never caught a thorny before. didn't know how to pick it up at first.
Photos below. Pics of the ray to follow. mark had a flash on his iphone.
