Its a funny time of year for me, the winter cod season has finished, the summer sea season hasn't really gotten started yet and the freshwater calender is just kicking off. With different things going on in my life away from the important pursuit of fishing I feel a bit like I'm spinning my wheels.
I grabbed the opportunity to get on to the beach at Marske on Tuesday evening, recent storms have scoured out a deep hole with steep sloping shingle and it was this area I was keen on targeting. Due to one of those things going on in my life I missed high tide by an hour (things to go wrong #1)so the hole was already emptying by the time I arrived and got chucked in. I was using frozen black lugworm and squid due to none of the local tackle shops having any fresh ragworm (things to go wrong #2). I had prepared to 2 rigs so I could bait one and fish one at the same time thus maximising my time. On my second cast the 60lb leader parted and I lost my second rig (things to go wrong #3). Why the leader parted I'm not quite sure.
Despite a couple of tentative bites nothing developed into anything significant but that did give me time to admire the sunset, I tried to get a photo with my phone camera but the battery died so hence no photos (things to go wrong #4).
I fished on still holding out hope for a fish well into the dark but it soon became apparent that at the bottom of the big spring tide I was only fishing into a few feet of water.
So... lessons to be learnt are numerous but on the plus side the head torch with changeable battery packs worked like a dream.
Thursday 19 April 2018
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