People:me and Neil
Duration:6-10.30pm
Tide:rising
Weather:gale force winds, rain, clearing later
Bait:lug,mack,squid.
Rigs:flappers and pulley rigs
Results:whiting and rockling
Report:Fished the end near the car park. Weather was bad,, and it was a job and a half to set up the shelter but when it was up things were a lot more bearable. The wind was howling so detecting bites was out of the question. I cast out and ran back to the beach buddy for shelter,,,what a great invention

Everything was spread out neatly beside me and it was quite comfortable ,,,i peeked my head out every now and again and had to get out once to pile more stones against it to hold it down,,,, but it stood the test

. Reeled in the first cast and there were 3 whiting on it, lug and mack on the first 2 hooks and just mack on the 3rd,,didnt seem to matter. hooks were 2'0's with size 1's on one of my rigs . 2nd cast another whiting and so it went all night. Neil arrived at 7-30pm and set up and soon had a double of rockling ,, followed by more whiting. We were getting plenty of fish but no decent ones'. At one stage i got a good tug on the line, and with that wind that was blowing i thought that it must be a decent fish, but it turned out to be another whiting, 25cms.Then the rain came

.Neil said that" this weather would seperate the men from the boys"

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,shortly after Neil left

Funny enough it cleared up a while later and was quite pleasant out. I thought there might be some doggies about and stayed on a bit longer but alas only whiting. On the last 3 casts (with the same bait

) i had a whiting on the bottom hook as i reeled in ,,even though there was only a tiny scrap on it and the other two hooks fully baited were untouched

Enjoyable evening even though it was just whiting,,,i would have stayed longer only i ran out of bait,, ah well at least i gave it a go down there,,i've never had much luck there

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Species '20 (14) 5 Beard Rockling, Shore Rockling, Codling, Whiting, Pollock, Coalfish, Pouting, Corkwing Wrasse ,Ballan Wrasse, Poor Cod, Dab ,Smoothhound,Flounder, Thornback Ray
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