Southbourne 5/4/8

[Spahill]

Reasonable weather forecast sent myself & Kirikomi off to Southbourne again to hide from the Northerly wind.
Left far too early and ended up having the evening meal in the pub at 15:00.
Down to the beach for 16:00 low water to see how far the sea goes out on a spring tide. 4 foot . A slight difference from the 40 foot on the Bristol Channel, but then again... I would rather go see the Welsh than the French .
Didn't expect to catch anything during daylight and duly didn't, baits came back untouched.
A few other anglers turned up at dusk & so did the fish. Having a chat, they were hoping for rays or bass & were glad to hear that there were no crabs (apparently there are loads of hook munching spiders off of Studland).
We managed half a dozen small pout & a Yting,

anglers next door also had a small plaice.
All fish taken on worm.
Squid, frozen eel, mackerel untouched.
An old boy walking the beach said the water exploded with fish a few groynes further towards Bournemouth & asked if they were bass or if the mackerel were in, I couldn't comment.

Fishing may not be prolific down there but it's close-ish for me & comfortable.
Happy everyone

[Fishing Forum Admin]

Sounds a nice session

[silverfish]

Well done mate.

[Norfolkboy]

Sounds like a nice trip

[ctwhitelaw]

well done mate

[pingu]

sounds pleaent enough and not a blank well done

dave