Fished East arm at Brighton Marina on the night of 3/4/07 in the hope of picking up something decent (yeah right).

Got there at about 7.30pm to a brisk NE breeze/wind. Set up at bay 20 and it looked like I was the only one out on the whole of the arm – at least it was peaceful.

Decided to only fish one rod as the bait situation was not good. Packs of ‘King’ ragworm that were more like pauper rag, only marginally bigger than maddies (Harbour ragworm) and a pack of frozen slipper limpet. I had no whole calamari that I would normally use to target bass.

Anyway, made the best of it and fished on. The breeze/wind got stronger but was weird to see the sea totally flat calm with no movement. Bite detection was a problem but I persevered. A couple of small pin whiting broke the fishless situation – I had begun to wonder if there was anything there.

The wind continued to gather pace and it began to get a bit uncomfortable but I carried on anyway in the hope of at least one decent fish. It was not to be – by midnight I’d had enough of whiting – all pins – no sign of the bigger ones that had been there over Winter.