Duration: whitepark bay 4.30pm to 9pm.... waterfoot 10.15pm to 2am
Tide: all states
Weather: 15mph winds, sunny and no rain
Bait: lug, mack and squid
Rigs: 3 hook flappers
Results: whitepark bay, me 1 flounder. jordan, blank.... waterfoot, me 9 flounder and 1 plaice. jordan 8 flounder
Report: we had been planning a camping/fishing trip all week and jordan has still to get his first turbot. so it was off to whitepark bay and on arrival there was a pretty decent surf which really would'nt suit the turbot, but we got the 4 rods baited up and cast out anyway. jordan went on a beach combing excursion while i got the tent set up and the kelly kettle on the boil (still serving us well neil
). we had a coffee and noticed all the lines were pointing to the 9 oclock position almost back on the shore 
. so i had a look in the tackle bag and found 4, 7oz gripper leads and we reeled in , re-baited and cast out again. this time they seemed to do the trick and the baits held firm 
. they would have needed to as they are the heaviest grippers we got 
. it was a bit quiet until i noticed that tell tale flattie twitch on my rod at distance and reeled in a wee flounder. on closer inspection he was an odd sort of shape . he had a stumpy head, squat body and a strange wavy lateral line where it should have arched over the pectoral fin. must have been some sort of growing deformity as a fry or something . anyhow we both baited up and re-cast. i thought jordan was getting a run as the line on the rod he just cast out had swept under my 2. he could feel weight and reeled in a monster weed fish 
. there must have been 10lb of weed on his trace , but i did'nt get to laugh too long as both of my rods appeared to be doing the same 
. the weed was a real pain and seemed to appear from nowhere. after casting out you were lucky to be able to count to 100 before all your gear was washed back up on the beach 100 yards to your left . so we quit fishing for an hour and a half to see if it would pass but it just got worse 
. a serious rethink was in order as we were supposed to fish this mark overnight but it was unfishable. so by 9pm we packed everything away including the tent and made the long hike back to the motor and went to our old back up, waterfoot 
. this wee mark never let us down and i got a load of plaice at it last week which would be another new one of 2009 for junior . we got to the peir to find it packed and plan B quickly became plan C . we set up on the beach but any ideas of camping were out the window as junior was beginning to fade fast. so jordan reckoned we'd just fish on until his eyes began to cross . as it turned out we had a blast with flounder after flounder and one up'smanship kicked in with jordan taking the lead then me getting in front and so on. by the end it was 8-6 to jordan but my last 2 casts produced doubles of flounder and flounder and a plaice . and the last 2 flounder were a pretty decent size with a 28cm and 30cm to round the session off. so for the first time in a while i beat junior 10 to 8 . great sport after a disasterous start. roll on the next session 
all the fish went back apart from the big flounder who had taken the hook deeply and was bleeding like a stuck pig. so you can guess whats on the menu for lunch today 
had a boat trip planned for today with debrock but he wasnt brave enough to go out 
