Having fished the Eastney fund raiser on Saturday, I had quite a bit of bait left over which needed using. So Sunday evening, I decided to go out and drown it for a few hours instead of sitting in front of the telly.

I packed one rod, 2 reels, one flask and a Snickers into my bag, got the bait from the fridge and plonked it into the bucket with my leads and rig wallet. Loaded it into the car and set off towards Seaford at 8pm.  At 8.02pm, I returned home and retrieved my wellies and flotation suit from our other car and headed off again.

Fished just East of Edinburgh Road. Well, I couldn’t do any worse than I did at Eastney could I. There was a slight SW breeze blowing and a bit of movement in the water, the sky was overcast with a bit of on and off drizzle so things looked promising apart from it being a bad time of the year.

After a couple of hours, the wind dropped, the sky cleared and the sea calmed. Great!! Anyway, I fished on using up the ragworm as if it was going out of fashion. Then just before High water the fish started. In the space of an hour or so I hauled out 5 pin whiting, 2 Pout and a 5 Bearded rockling.

Called it a night at 2.30am having reassured myself that there were still fish in the sea