I was tempted out into the wind and rain on Friday night to try and hunt out some codling and whiting down at Seaford beach. On arrival about an hour or so before low water, I saw that the sea was pretty lumpy with some good heavy wave action. I set up just East of the Beachcomber and used two rods – one ledgered DVice loaded with lugworm and squid cast at distance, the other, a ledgered 4/0 hook pennel rig with whole squid cast into the turmoil of the waves.

To cut a long story short, I fished until about 1am when I had to pack up due to running out of bait. The conditions had been ok, even if it was a bit a bit wet and windy. Although no codling showed, there were enough whiting to keep things busy; most being reasonable size, with two being good table size. The great majority of fish fell to the lugworm and squid cocktail at about 50-60 yards out but a few did take the whole squid in the surf.