Duration: noon - 9pm
Tide: LW 2pm HW 8pm
Weather: calm, dry but freezing
Bait: sand eel, mack, rag, lug, razor and squid
Rigs: 3 hook flappers
Results: ME: 4, 3 bearded rockling (SPECIMEN 1lb 13oz!!) 1 codling and 1 coalie. JORDAN: 3, 3 bearded rockling
Report: with jordan off school for half term we decided to try a few of our summer marks to see what was about. we had intended to fish white park bay, but as we walked half way down the path to the beach we spotted that there was a massive surf rolling in with waves breaking a good 300 yards off shore
. there would have been no chance of getting a rig to hold bottom in those conditions. so a re-think was in order 
there is a little harbour close by that we always said we would try some day, but just never got round to so we went back to the car and made the 5 minute trip to the harbour and got set up. we fished 2 rods each with one in close and one at distance. the next 6 hours were fishless without a single bite all day 
. the only thing that kept us hanging in there was the knowledge that as soon as we lost the light, the fish should come on the feed 
. and just like some one had flicked a switch, the sun went down and the bites began 
i decided to let the bites on my spinning rod develop for a bit until the rod almost doubled over . i lifted into the fish and was dumbstruck to discover i was reeling in not 1, but 2 chunky 3 bearded rockling!!! 
. and if that was'nt amazing enough, the biggest one tipped the scales at 1lb 13ozs not only a new p.b. but a specimen to boot 
. so after many photos they were both released to fatten up a bit to be caught again in the future . over the next 2 hours i got another 2 but not to the same size as the big specimen. i also got a single wee codling and coalie on the rod at distance, nothing of any great size, but i was just glad to be catching . odd thing was that jordan still had'nt got a fish 
i could tell he was beginning to loose interest in his fishless session, so i let him swap places with me and he cast his gear to where i had got the rockling. but things had died off a bit and neither of us were getting bites any more. by 9pm i had stripped my rigs and started to pack away. but i noticed that jordan had his back to his tripod stripping a rig and his other rod was bouncing away like a mad thing 
. so i shouted over to him and he dropped everything and struck into something with a bit of weight . i asked him what he thought it might be and his reply was " a huss ". but we were both stunned to see that the jammy git had managed a full house of big 3 beardys . a fish on every hook of his flapper rig!!!. and better than that the biggest one was larger than my specimen from earlier . so they were all carefully unhooked and photographed. we released the 2 smaller ones and got the scales out to see what weight was on the big fella. jordan's p.b. was 1lb 13oz and this guy was well fatter than that one . but disaster struck,,,, we just could'nt get the scales to work (and these scales were only a week old ). i tried everything. quickly replaced the batteries and everything, but no joy. they just kept reading 0lb 0oz . this is the second set of berkley digital scales i've purchased that have let us down all we had left was a cheap set of scales that only go to 2lb and the rockling maxed them out . but on reflection jordan decided it was'nt worth killing the fish just to find out what weight it was and released him. his reasoning was that rockling are territorial and if we fish that same spot again we stand a good chance of hooking into him again in the future when we're better prepared with decent scales to get a precise weight . so jordan was beaming from ear to ear with his rockling treble and i finally got my first specimen seems that the 3 beardys are following us around that stretch of coast . we can't seem to go wrong with them at the moment . we thought that first mark we found them at was good, but this mark was unbelieveable 
not only did it hold specimens, but 2 and 3 at a time was something i've never heard of before. needless to say we'll be camped out at that mark for weeks to come 
. and i can't help but wonder what the possibilities for a record at that spot might be we'll keep you all posted 
