I haven’t been out for a while, being laid up with chronic back pain. Anyway, feeling better, I was desperate to get out, so armed with some squid, I headed off to Seaford beach last night for a session over high water.
On arrival at about 9.30pm, I opted to fish just east of the Beachcomber and set up one rod with a long link running ledger ending in a 5/0 pennel baited with whole squid. Condition looked great – a nice onshore breeze was putting plenty of movement in the water with some good wave action. Twenty minutes into the session, the bass rod lurched over and I was quickly into a fish and then quickly not into a fish as it threw the hook. At least I knew there was fish there.
It wasn’t until about 10.30pm that I had my next take which resulted in a reasonable 2½lb fish on the shingle. I re-baited and chucked it back out just behind the breaking waves in the hope of another quick follow up fish. ‘Quick’ turned out to be half an hour as bang on 11pm and virtually on high water, the rod tip banged down and I was soon into another fish (pictured). This was slightly larger at 3lbs on the nose.
Half an hour later, I had another stonking bite which I missed due to me not paying attention as I was bagging up some rubbish and general tidying of my kit.
By now, the wind had dropped to nothing and the sea flattened out with just a few residual half-arsed attempts at waves. I had another couple of chucks before the bait ran out around 1am and it was time to head home. It was a great night and although the fish weren’t huge, were great fun.