Hayling lastnight

[gullyworm]

Well the sea looked good,a stiff southerly was blowing straight in our faces chopping the sea up and making it very "bassy"
I chucked two rods out one with worm on small hooks the other in close with a garfish section.
Rob caught a couple of schoolie bass and then the heavens oppened,great!
I had a small bass myself and a bream and then put both rods in close with big squid and garfish baits.
We d been there a couple of hours and things were very slow ,
things then suddenly hotted up.
I was stood talikng to Rob looking at my rods which were about20yrds away when out of nowhere there was an almight blinding flash near my rods,i thought i d gone blind whilst Robs hair standed on end and his pace make nearly blew its fuse.
A massive lightening bolt had landed not far from the other side of my rods,great,weve got 4 x 13 ft lengths of carbon and its lightening overhead.
Well we sh%t ourselfs and wouldnt touch our rods for ages untill the storm passed over,when i did build up courage to wind in i gingerly earthed my rods expecting to get electricuted at any time.
Back to the fishing and things were still slow with the odd small bass and bream ,i also got a small smutt.
At about midnight it started lightening again ,this time out at sea lighting up the horizon with huge impressive arcs of light.
This was all very entertaining except i kept thinking i was going to get blown up everytime i wound in ,and with the but of the rod stuck in my groin i kept getting visions of waking up lying on the beach looking down at whats left of my smouldering manhood .
My fear of electricity comes from my grandad and his spoons atatched to a car battery,cheers grandad
Anyway the fishing ,as said it was slow but as the tide began to ebb things slowly improved with small bass being pulled in quite regulary.
Atlast i got a good bite on the rod close in ,small squid on a 3/0 its got to be a biggy,wrong a 1lb bass .
Even small bass can take the biggest of baits.
The squid close in was now proving a big hit with the bass but none of any size,the biggest was about 2lb.
By the end of the night we had between us about 4 bream,i smutt and 15-20 bass all of which went back.
Quite a lot of fish but at the time it seemed a slow night and nothing of any great size.
Highlight of the night was Hayling roulette fishing,you know the one were you stand on a beach with a 13ft length of carbon in your hands during lightening,keeps you on edge

[pingu]

nice one on all the fish gulley we could see that storm from sidmouth

baggy kept mentioning the propertie of rods as conductors

[baitmaster]

a shocking read john sorry could not resist the pun
nah good read least you got some action and caught a few fish .


tightlines
kevinn

[maghouse]

Think I have recovered - what a night ....
Althought it was slow for 8 hrs of fishing, I was pleased to catch over 10 fish and a nice bass (IMHO) at around 1lb. Had one Bream on that felt really good, got it to the surf to think - thats not very big ? I guess the weight of Johns line I had hooked as well fooled me
Caught my biggest Bass on Slipper Limpet at about 10 yards and a few really good bites but like the other night - no connection
Highlight has to be the storm - what an impressive display by Mrs Nature - the lightning out to sea lit up the sky (and I mean lit up the sky) from Selsey - IOW ... truly spectacular ...
New batteries in the pacemaker - Johns face was a picture whan that bolt hit (sorry John ) as as he says : All that lightning & wet 14' carbon rods - REAL team extreme

[maghouse]

Oh yeah - and we got a 0-0 away at Man City - another clean sheet !

[fishypaul]

well done guys,its a frightening experience fishing in a storm

a good nights work and an entertaining read

[soledover]

Great report, lads!
You don't leave too much to the imagination.... feels like I was there!
Not sure about your Grandad, mate?
I know that 'young people today don't know they're born', but wiring yer danglies up to a Ford 8 battery has to have been a desperation move, even during the Blitz?

Well done on the catch.

[Greenheart]

Sounds like a cracking session guys, bet it went by in a flash..... I was about 50yds away from Edinburgh castle a couple of years back when it was hit by lightning. It was covered in metal scafolding for the Military Tattoo at the time. Well scary.......