Duration: 5pm - 3am
Tide: low past high
Weather: dry, no wind but cold
Bait: rag, lug, mack, prawn and squid
Rigs: flappers
Results: 2 coalies, 1 shore rockling, 1 pouting and 1 doggie.
Report: after checking the tides and recent reports i decided to give it a go to fish it from low tide to high. the flood coincided with dusk so hopes were high of a good session. how wrong i was
. it started off ok with a little coalie at dusk and then nothing for hours. another angler arrived and set up fishing over the back wall, but he went home fishless after 5 hours. i got another little coalie and then it went dead again 
. i was spurred on when paulybo from the site arrived with dave and lewis. now i could see if it was my poor fishing that was'nt getting me any fish or was it the fish that were just not feeding 
. but unfortunately it was'nt just me. there were 7 rods out between us covering the mouth of the harbour and the fish were still just as scarse 
more hours went by than i'd like to mention and all we had to show for our efforts was a tiny wee shore rockling that i got and a nice wee doggie that paul landed. when the guy fishing the back wall was leaving he gave me his left over bait. so after paul, dave and lewis left i fished on determined not to go until i got a fish or ran out of bait 
. there were still no bites until around 1am when i got a wee pouting which gave me another confidence boost. there were fish out there 
, something i was beginning to doubt 
. then nothing until around 2am when i was down to my last 3 big juicy lug. i carefully threaded them all up the snood of the bottom hook on the trace to put out the maximum ammount of scent in the area i was fishing. so with the bell on the rod tip i began packing away the rest of my gear and waited for over half an hour until i got a slack line bite. 
. finally, sucess!!! there was weight on the end and it was fighting i was thinking it might be another coalie like the one jordan got the other night, but was suprised when a very lively doggie broke the surface . he was a wriggler with plenty of life in him. so much so, he would'nt stay still long enough to get a decent pic. so he was rerurned and swam straight down with no haste 
. by now i was out of bait and knackered to boot so headed for home. i was suprised how poor the fishing was at a mark that always seems to produce the goods. so i think i'll give it a break until a new cycle of tides comes in next week. but at least i did't blank again 
so fair play to you for sticking it out and getting some results 
good that you got out though!and at least jordan was not out to show you up 
