Goals

Following on from my thoughts yesterday I've had a long hard think about what I want to do with my fishing time this year and come up with the following,
Beach 
Winter cod on the marks I've been introduced to this winter hopefully some more I find myself
Bass from the local beaches
Thornback rays from the local beaches which may hopefully coincide with the bass at night
Scratching for flatties and anything else that comes my way probably at the Tees estuary
Boat
I'd like to get my boat in the water for some diving and fishing and have a go for some pollack, bass, mackerel and cod with lures
Maybe some bait fishing for cod
Rivers
Pike and perch on lures exploring the tees and the Swale
Chub and roach on the float and ledger probably in the same area
Stillwater
My usual quarry are carp and I'd like to think I did reasonably well last year
Perch on lures as well as baits
I had a great session last year in the pouring rain fishing with worm and maggot for anything that came along

I think that should all keep me going for the rest of the year but I'll keep you posted.

Here Comes the Year

The beauty of limiting myself to coarse fishing was that I didn't feel like I needed to spread my time too thinly amongst all the places and types of fishing, fish and spots. That ,however, was before I was reintroduced to sea fishing and now I feel that there simply aren't enough weeks in the year. Typical.

Unfortunate Slip

Well the snow has all but gone and the howling wind has abated so we headed up onto the cliffs near Staithes last night. It turned out to be a cold night and by the end of the night my feet were freezing. I lost a decent codling as I hoisted it out of the water to start its 300 foot journey up the cliffs and that was more or less my only action of the night. Martin finished the night with one codling around 2 or 3lb and Rob left us to head down onto the rocks below around mid tide with 2 codling under his belt.
Rob and Martin were muttering half heartedly about it maybe being their last session of the 2017/2018 winter cod season which made losing the better fish even more disappointing. I always enjoy fishing off the cliffs but a tiny part of me is always relieved to get off in one piece with all my kit intact.
Here's to the rest of the year.... carp, perch, pollock, thornbacks and cod... plus anything else that comes my way

Beast From the East

By many country's standards the storm isn't severe but on the British scale its crippling! Anyway I wont be fishing this week.