Vic Fisher’s sea angling journal

On Monday 16th myself and a few blokes from WSF decided to have a session at Brighton Marina. The target was Smooth Hound (aka smoothie or smut). There have been a few small ones caught recently with the beginning of the annual moult of the Spider crab. It was hoped that the larger ones were [...]

Many years ago as a small boy, I remember going fishing for the first time with my father; just a short session on the River Lea in North London not far from where we were living. I recall the anticipation as we baited the hook with maggots and then as we waited for the float [...]

Wanting to make the most of the current weather and get out in the fresh air, I decided fish the East arm at Brighton Marina yesterday. On arrival at about 7.00pm, I managed to get a space in bay 20. It was a fabulous evening, no wind, flat sea, clear sky, lovely and warm. Not [...]

Fished a few hours down at the East arm of Brighton Marina last night from about 7pm through until around 2am.
Settled in bay 24 and fished 2 rods - one was rigged with a long & low alternating between peeler crab and hermit crab as bait, the other, a running ledger with 3/0 pennel [...]

Some time ago, a fishing competition was organised by one of the Dorset members of WSF. It was to be fished at West Bexington in Dorset on 31st May. For some reason, it all went udders up and was cancelled. Not to be deterred, a few members of Shoreham Angling Squad decided that they [...]