Weather was nice and calm
if i remember correctly low tide was around 11pm.
Bait was frozen crab, live rag, squid, mackeral and sandeel.
I met my mate at the chosen mark around 19.00 . I decided to cast one out far in the strong current and one in close for a conger. As soon as it became dark the conger rod went non stop i managed to pull one in drop another at the surface and miss a couple of more. My mate had 0 bites at this stage and he decided to go for conger also but with a no luck.
with the far out rod i was thumping our pulley pennel rigs with either crab or full squid. With the 7 ounce led barely holding i saw my rod take a clatter i picked it up and then line started stripping from my multi on a full squid. i began questioning what the hell this could me. It swam with the current taking me 50 yards down the quay while stripping line. after 5 minutes i see a flash of grey and i was like hardly a small tope.....
My mate managed to get down onto the steps and pulled it up and to my surprise it was a smoothhound. Absolutely delighted with this and my mate blanking we started firing both rods out far to see if there was anymore about but we got a dog each so the blank was off for him and i managed 3 species. 12.45 came along and we managed to persuade four star pizza to drop us a delivery not much else materialized bar another dog so we packed up at 2.30 am
