I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of Spring and a change in the species lining up to be caught.

Wanting to get out for a few hours to take advantage of reasonable tides, I opted to have a session at Edinburgh Road at Seaford on Monday night. It was a lovely evening, a slight North West breeze with overcast sky which later cleared. I planned to fish from low tide up and over high tide at around 1am.

Armed with lugworm, ragworm and calamari, I fished two rods; one at range on a single hook ledger and one close in with a 3/0 pennel and whole calamari.

The only things that appeared to feeding were 5 Bearded rockling and Pout. Now this at least saved me from blanking but I am getting a bit fed up with only catching these critters. The whiting and codling seem to have now eventually disappeared but the Spring/Summer species haven’t yet arrived. Not long now though.

With no hint of catching anything decent, I gave up at 1am and saved my remaining bait for a later trip.