From dawn till dusk

A changeable weather outlook put and an end to my plans for the weekend. I found myself fishing where I had to as opposed to where I wanted to.  I took some crab out the freezer as a backup as my thoughts were that conditions would be difficult, I wasn’t wrong.

I arrived before dawn and made my way to my chosen mark, things looked OK. As the tide started to flood and being the only person in sight I seemed to turn into a seal magnet, normally a good indication or fish being in the area they became a pest. The only offer I had was when I launched a Wave Worm at one about 20 yards away and wound the lure back at some speed a small Bass chased it over the top of the weed but couldn’t find the hook. I made a few moves but three hours after HT I was still fishless, a long time to go with only one offer for my efforts.

I took a break for a few hours and rigged up the beach rod bang on LT. Action started pretty much straight away with a double shot of Dogfish and surprisingly given the conditions very little weed  in what was a cracking surf. For the next 3 hours it was pretty frantic and on a couple of occasions I had to send out the same baits as a result of getting a hook up just after touch down and not having the last rig re-baited. Conditions were quite difficult with the surf running up the beach but I managed a few unimaginative pictures for the blog when I could. All in a nice little session with Bass being there in decent numbers but all on the small side.

The mighty Shore Rockling

I think the Bass gear might be getting put away for the winter now, still sport to be had but the weather is the problem. I met one of my contacts in the afternoon and they had a good result on Friday but with weather patterns outlined below, typical of the autumn, it’s hard to plan to be there at the right time. Maybe it's time to go get myself a big Zander.....

 All over the place!!