Thursday evening was going to be another serious attempt at getting a double figure bass from the beach, so it was off to Seaford beach again armed with a couple of boxes of squid. First stop was West view but that was way too weedy and rough, so went back further West and stopped at an area between Edinburgh road and the Buckle – didn’t look too bad and decided to give it a shot.
Setup one rod, long link running ledger, 6/0 pennel – the usual thing. Baited up, chucked out into the waves and stood holding the rod; within seconds, the lot was being dragged left by weed. With considerable effort, I dragged the lot in and spent the next minute or so clearing all the crap off the gear, tons of horrible, snotty and stringy weed…. yuk.
The next two attempts resulted in the same mess, so it was up sticks and move elsewhere. From the top of the prom, I scanned along the beach and looked like it was everywhere and moving Eastwards at a rate of knots. With that in mind and knowing deep down that it would make no difference where I fished, I decided to go back up past the beachcomber and stick it out there.
I took a couple of pictures but they don’t really convey just how rough it was and you can’t see the amount of weed that there was in the water, in hindsight I should have shot some video – just a thought for next time.
Within a few casts it became obvious that there was going to be no fishing that day. So to save wasting any more bait, I opted for the ‘cut and run’ and headed off home.