Eels at the Marina
Comments (2) Yesterday was an early finish at work, which gave me a good opportunity for some extra fishing time. With a good SW breeze blowing, I reckoned on a good chance of bass at Brighton Marina, so armed with all my kit, I headed off onto the East arm, arriving at about 6pm. There was a reasonable swell running and as it was still low water, there were few slaps, where the water hits the marina wall and gushes up the gaps between the caissons.
I only had some lugworm and two packets of frozen sandeels and had hoped to get some some fresh mackerel while fishing. The colour of the water said there was no chance of mackerel, so I had a dilemma – stay and hope, or plan B , fish the low water surf that would be running at Tidemills? In the end I opted to stay where I was and use the lug and sandeel and keep my fingers crossed.
Things started (or not) very slowly, with no interest in the lugworm which was on on a two hook flapper, or the sandeel on a ledgered pennel rig. It wasn’t until darkness fell, that it livened up a bit. By now the wind had died down, the sea smoothed out a bit and to cap it all, a bright moon was showing. Anyway, small bites started to come in but turned out to be rockling and the bigger bites were eels that wrecked two rigs and slimed everywhere, the biggest was around the 1½lbs. mark. And that my friends, was the story of the evening – eels and rockling, all falling for the lugworm – not one touch on the sandeel.
