Fished Brighton Marina East arm on Wednesday evening to get the 10.30pm high water. Arrived at about 6.30pm and settled myself in bay 20. Spent a little while enjoying some sport catching mackerel on light spinning gear to be used as bait for the serious stuff.

I used to rods, both with running ledger terminal tackle, one with lugworm on size 1 hook. The other had mackerel mounted on 2/0 Pennel rig.

Had a number of small black bream on the lugworm and a few runs on the mackerel, which I believe were Cuttlefish, as the bait was stripped from the hook on retrieve.

A couple of small bass followed before a small pouting was landed. This was immediately used as live bait and was quickly scoffed by a spirited bass of around 18 inches which on landing was seen to be in beautiful condition and as plump as a plump thing, so had obviously been feeding well.

At about 1 am, the fishing went dead and it was time to call it a night and head off home. I might just have to have a bash at landing the Cuttlefish on a future visit.