30/06/09 Hi all, sorry about the delay in updates over the past week and a half. Unfortunately, if you read my previous report, you may have heard that i have hurt my back again. After 2 weeks of resting, i am feeling much better and itching to wet a line. I havent had too many report due to my absence on the fishing scene, and also i didnt want to hear what people were catching while i was stuck in bed! Anyway, onto the reson why your reading this...whats being caught? Brighton marina has been fishing well with the usual mackerel and garfish, although they have been slightly more patchy then you would have thought. Some good sized bass have been caught on mackerel baits. Bream are being caught on a range of baits with best results being small hooks. Smoothounds up to 4lb have been showing after dark on peeler crab baits. A few Sole are starting to show too. Down the wall in the daytime there have also been some nice sized wrasse and after dark there is the usual invasion of pout. Seaford has been producing a lot of mackerel with some shoaling on the surface. A friend of mine went spinning on Friday and had plenty on his dexter wedge lure. They were approximately mid water as he was letting the lure sink a little. During the day there has also been a few bream caught but none of notable size, as far as im aware. After dark seaford has been producing Pout for the most part with the odd dogfish, baby thornbacks and hound pups. My dad has fished woth the HDSA this weekend and amongst the catches were a lot of Dogfish, some hounds up to 6lb, plenty of bream and a nice undulated ray just under double figures. Pevensey bay has fished ok with some schooly bass, pout and hound pups. A few eels have also been caught but all in all the reports have been fairly slow from that area. If you have any reports, please send them onto me and i will add them asap. 16/06/09 Sorry about the delay but i hurt my back this week so this is the first chance i have been able to get to my laptop. This week has seen patches of calm weather mixed with windy days so it has meant that the sea has been clearish with the odd patch of coloured water. This has effected the fishing but on the whole things have been good. Brighton Marina has been fishing well with reports of bass up to 6lb being caught on Mackerel heads and guts. Smoothounds have shown up to 5lb after dark along with a few sole and small thornbacks. During the day there has been quite a few Mackerel and Garfish when the water has been clearer. There has also been some nice Wrasse down the wall to worm baits and pout after dark. Bream up to 1lb have also been showing on both arms. I fished with HDSA on sunday (when i done my back in) and there was a real mix of catches. Most notably some good rays. Me and Pete decided to fish a mark known as the box (about 6 miles out). Unfortunately, the current was strong and our anchor tripped to start with. We then held bottom and finding the fish was proving a bit difficult. After a couple of hours we did manage to have a few sizeable dogs, undersized bream and I had a hound just over 5lb. We decided to move and fished closer to shore where i got another hound and a dab of 10oz. I also hound around 20 bream but couldnt get one sizeable (all 1/2 cm undersize) but pete did manage 2 good ones. I then hurt my back and wont bore you with that but it ended my fishing for the day although it was just before we were heading in anyway. At the weigh in it was clear that some marks had produced while others didnt as some people had quite a few good bream while others had none. Most notably were Glenn Ide's and Harry Leeson's rays (pics below). Glenn also had a Plaice of 2lb. Glenn Ide with his 2lb Plaice and 10lb 13oz Undulated Ray. Harry Leeson with his 15lb 5oz Undulated Ray. Seaford has produced a few hound pups and thournbacks but on the main it seems to be mackerel and the odd bass during daylight with the Pout coming on after dark as well as the odd dab and whitinh, yes whiting (i whitnessed it 33cm long). Pevensey has fished very similar with the odd schooly and sole being thrown into the mix as well as a few bigger hounds 08/06/09 This week has seen much better weather but again the winds caused summer fish to move out for a bit but they are back in now. The May rot was present at almost all sussex beaches at the start of the week which meant that there wast much being caught. If you had been to the beach you would have seen a tea colour in the sea and this was the may rot. Brighton Marina has been producing some good catches this week after the may rot cleared. Bream have been caught up to decent sizes on both arms with quite a few smaller ones being caught as well. There has been some good bass caught up to 6lb. Down the side of the wall there has been some Wrasse and Pollack on worm baits. After dark Smoothounds up to 6lb have been caught on peeler crab and there has also been baby thornbacks and pout. Roy and Ben Arnold fished the marina on saturday night and had a couple of hounds around the 4lb mark. Me and Charlie went on our fishing trip to pagham in the persuit of hounds. Unfortunately, the seaweed was soo strong that on the Friday night that we didnt catch any hounds because everytime you cast out the bait was being masked by sea weed as was the whole of your line. Many anglers packed up early and after chatting to a few fellow anglers it was clear that very little was caught and no hounds. I did manage a nice schooly bass around the 2lb mark to save my blank. We camped on the beach and woke to bacon sarnies at sunrise. We tried fishing again but the weed was too bad so we decided to try selsey in the day but as we arrived many others were packing up due to the weed so we gave it a quick go but it was far too weedyt. Later i learnt that my mate Jay had fished there the night before and there was only a few pout landed amongst the weed. After this we decided to head nearer to home and fish the Ouse and then Seaford. We fished the ouse for a few hours and tried to lure a mullet but frustratingly they done the typical thing of playing with your bait but not getting hooked. I did hook one but after a brief fight the hook came loose. We moved onto Seaford and as soon as we got there the mackerel were shoaling in massive shoals, almost beaching themselves after the whitebait. We caught some mackerel using loght tackle and dexter wedge lures and it was a welcome relief to feel the fight of a fish. I tried for a bass but no luck although my livebait joey was taken after a lot of movement on the rod. After dark we had almost a pout per cast and some approaching the 1lb mark. There was also dabs and some whiting caught. I had a small smoothhound pup and charly caught his first ever thornback which was really great and it wasnt a bad size. The frustrating thing is that despite catching fish and having a great lads fishing weekend we felt a little dissapointed that we didnt get a decent hound but knew we werent doing anything wrong as we had caught fish using the same rigs in the past and we had plenty of perfect bait but they just werent feeding. Also the fact that no one caught them at pagham showed it was just one of those days. Pevensey has fished similar to Seaford and i expect some hounds to start showing up. 25/05//09 This week has seen much better weather but the winds have put some colour to the water at some places which means that the summer fish have not been about until the latter part of the week. Unfortunately, the HDSA match i was due to fish was cancelled as there was a little too much swell to be able to launch off the beach. Brighton marina has fished well this weekend once the water has started to clear. Mackerel have been showing in good numbers with plenty of whitebait down the side of the wall. Garfish have also been caught on float fished baits. Bass and bream have been caught close to the wall. A couple of bigger bass have been landed on prawn. Wrasse are still being caught down the side of the wall mainly on worm baits. A few Hounds and baby thornback rays have been caught after dark with peeler crab being the most productive bait. Charlie fished the west arm for a couple of hours on friday afternoon and had a some Bream and Garfish. I will add a picture shortly. Elsewhere, there have been some nice Bass up to 4lb caught at seaford beach. There has also been Pout and Dogfish showing after dark. Similar catches have been reported from Pevensey Bay as well. Hove Beaches have produced Bass up to a couple of pounds as well as eels and a few hounds to 5lb.   The British shore caught smoothhound record was broken this week at Hayling Island. A monster of 28lb 10oz was caught on half a large peeler crab on a 3/0 hook. For the full report by the angler who landed it, click here. Wothing Pier has produced a few gars, mackerel and dogfish as well as some schooly bass. Thanks to Rick for this report from Newhaven east arm: hi there me my son and daughter fished the east arm newhaven yesterday 31,5,09 we was using red rag,lug ,king rag and some white rag the only bait we caught on was red rag we had a good size mullet about 2lb a nice size bream and 3 flatys only the mullet was taken home we cast onto the east side (beach) was very windy casting against the wind so wasnt getting great distances but didnt need to realy there was quite a few fishing a lot of them were feathering and some had lug and king rag but wasnt doing any good for us was a ok day the mullet was caught on a carp rod fixed spool reel and 15lb line on a running ledger hope this news helps cheers rick Me and Charlie are fishing 2 days over the coming weekend. We are intending to fish pagham on the friday and Selsey on the saturday night in te persuit of hounds. I am then fishing the boat (weather permitting) on Sunday day so hopefully (fingers crossed) i will have some good reports to give you and some pics.       25/05//09 I will start with Brighton Marina because there are reports that quite a few bream are being caught on a range of baits. Some Bream have been to good size with one reported to be approaching the 4lb mark. Besides the bream there have been gars and mackerel when its been calmer as well as the odd schooly bass and wrasse down the wall. After dark there have been a few hounds landed as well as small baby thronback rays.  I fished with HDSA this weekend and there was a good range of fish caught. Most notably there were a couple of nice hounds caught with one topping 10lb. Also there was plenty of bream about with one being 2lb 15oz and another (pic below) of 2lb 2oz. I came third overall with 9lb of fish. I had 4 sizeable bream, 1 gurnard, 2 dogfish and a smoothhound. I caught many more fish but there is quotas for each species. There were lots of bream about and frustratingly they would rip baits apart within seconds of touching the bottom. They were biting so much at times that the dogs couldnt get a look in. Glenn Ide with a 2lb 2oz Bream. I also had the heartbreak of losing a very good ray. I was using light gear for bream and had a small strip of mackerel attached to a size 2 hook. while dealing with my other rod i noticed that my bream bait had moved against the tide so i reeled in the slack and pulled into what felt like the bottom but as we werent drifting there was no way this could have happened or snagged. I applied pressure and it started to move and lifted a few inches but i could do nothing. Unfortunately i havent fished for rays in the past and didnt really know how to tackle this so i applied more pressure and pop it had gone, the line just above the hook had snapped. I later learned that you need to wait it out a bit and not apply too much pressure! I can only assume that the line had snapped because the ray had the hook in its mouth and the line was rubbing in its pads that are like crushers in its mouth. on reflection its frustrating but i wasnt set up with the right tackle and line to target them so had i got it in it would have been lucky, at least thats what i tell my self to get over it. There was also another decent ray lost by an angler on another boat. Hove and shoreham beaches have been starting to produce hounds after dark with some good bream and bass showing at dusk. Seaford has fished fairly similar although not many reports of hounds yet. The hot pipes are producing a few bass and it may be worth a spinning session down there. 11/05//09 This week has seen some better weather in terms of sunshine but the breeze has meant that the inshore waters have been dirtier at most marks. Brighton Marina has been closed most of the week due to the winds but when it has been open there have been a few Mackerel and Garfish caught. There are also reports that a couple of Codling around 6lb were landed. Charlie Gill kayak fished near the West Pier on Sunday morning and managed to catch this eel (pic below). He fished for a couple of hours until the wind and waves picked up and called it a day. I fished twice this weekend. The first was Saturday night at Pagham in persuit of some of the Hounds i had heard about and the second was an inshore boat match with HDSA.  I will start with Pagham. I could only fish for the 2 hours approaching HT as i had to get back and have a good nights kip before a boat match early the next morning. I was armed with plenty of crab and used a puley rig with a pennel hook set up (3/0 hooks), which has worked plenty in the past. Unfortunately, I didnt get the hound i was after but i also didnt see many come up while i was there. Im not sure if they came on the feed after i left but typically as i was packing up i saw the guy next to me land one around 9lb. I did contemplate staying on but really couldnt as i had to be up and on the boat early. I did manage a Thornback around the 1lb mark and also a pout for my efforts which saved the blank but the weed was quite strong at times and often masked the bait. A fairly uneventful first trip down that way but there is always next time.   Back to Sussex now and the second of my reports. I fished an inshore boat match with HDSA on sunday and the weather reports looked ok. I headed out 3 miles from the club and got some fresh mackerel to go with my other baits (peeler crab, squid, lack lug and ing rag). The mackerel were fairly deep. We set off for a mark around 4 miles out and anchored up over a patch of ground we have fished in the past. I used 2 rods and set up running ledgers on both. On one i was using a 3/0 hook with either Peeler crab or Mackerel fillets and on the other i had 2 hooks with worm baits for Bream and flatfish. Things started quickly with Dogfish being the first to show and taking any bait put in front of them. Then the bream came but most of these were small and frustratingly 1cm undersize everytime. I managed to catch 2 sizeable dogs (club quota) and returned the ones that were taking my baits intended for earlty rays or hounds. The bream offered entertainment and i managed to get 2 sizeable ones. Pete who i was fishing with also had his dogs and managed to catch a 4lber and a sizeable dab. I then caught a small hound pup around 1lb and a bass that was 1cm undersize. As the tide swung around i also had a couple of Pout. Just before we decided to move spot i caught a sizeable Plaice which was good as you currently get bonus ponts for the target species which is currently Plaice. We lifted anchor and moved nearer shore and drifted for Plaice. If your wondering why we hadnt drifted all day if Plaice are the bonus species, its because it was wind against tide which meant we would remain pretty much stationary until the tide turned. We went on the drift and didnt manage Plaice but caight plenty more small Bream almost every cast as well as some small dabs. Overall i came 3rd with 5lb 10oz made up of 2 Dogfish, 2 Bream and a Plaice. Although i only weighed in 5 fish, it was pretty much a fish a cast with the range of species adding some variety to the days catches. Some of the other anglers managed a few nice catches. Harry L caught a 6lb Tope which is earlier then expected (he caught and released it). There was also a 2 Plaice over 2lb caught. Pevensey bay has been producing plenty of Pout, some Pin Whiting and dabs. There has also been a few Schooly Bass landed and small Hounds. Seaford has fished pretty much the same as Pevensey bay. Fishyrob had a lovely Bass near Southwick which tipped just over the 9lb mark.       05/05//09 Sorry about the delay this week but i have had issues with my pc which is now thankfully repaired. Anyway, onto the fishing. This week has provided a range of catches and has shown that the summer species are coming in.  Thanks to Chalie for this report from Brighton Marina: Popped down the east arm with my farther 6am till 9am light eastly wind peg 19 only had a few frozen black lug and one frozen mackeral. we had endless pout down the side and a couple of star fish and a gurnard all on black lug with a mack tippers, we also had a couple of big mackeral on feathers and i got a gar on a float with a mack strip. Brighton Marina has also produced Mackerel and Garfish on feathers and floats throughout the week. There has been some good sized Wrasse caught down by the wall. A few Bass around 3-4lb have also been landed. Some Bream have started to show during the daylight as well. After dark there have been Smoothhounds, Dogfish and Sole. Hove beaches have produced a few Eels, pin Whiting and Small baby Rays after dark. During daylight there has been the odd Flounder. Shoreham Arm has been producing Flounders and Garfish during daylight with the odd Doggy after dark. Newhaven East arm has also been producing a few gars and mackerel on float and feather set ups. There has been a few Pollack and Wrasse down the wall. Seaford and Pevensey bay have been fishing fairly similar with catches being the same as the above marks. Most notably, there has been a few Dogfish caught at Seaford after dark. Southease has provided some sport with Flounders and Eels but its still a little early yet with late May and June seeing the start of the fish.   29/04//09 This week has seen more settled warmer weather which has brought on some of the summer species, albeit not quite in full force yet. There has been some bass caught by the hot pipe and reports are that one was around 4lb. Dogfish have been caught after dark along many of our local beaches (Worthing, Shoreham, Goring, Seaford) this week. There has been a few Smoothhounds caught as well but these are mostly small. Brighton Marina has been fishing well with a lot of Mackerel being caught on Feathers during the week. There has also been some garfish and pollack on float fished baits. Wrasse have been down the side of the wall on worm baits and there has been reports of a 3lb Plaice landed. After dark there has been a few dogfish and smoothounds caught but not much of notable size. Charlie fished the east arm fridat night and between him and his dad they caught countless Pout. Charlies dad also had a nice eel around 1 1/2lb. I fished with HDSA this weekend with the target species being plaice. The heaviest weight wins the match but you get bonus points for Plaice which are credited in the league. I must start by saying that im writing this report with a tear in my eye as i really had the case of 'the one that got away' today. I will explain shortly. Upon beaching it became clear that i wasnt the only one. Anyway, onto the report. We set out at 9 am and headed about 3 miles out for Mackerel. Each boat picked their own detsination with some heading towards worthing, some straight out from the club and others went nearer brighton. Upon getting 3 miles out we were into some mackerel but they werent in the volumes we expected. After getting some for bait, and a few for the table, we headed another mile out in the search of an early ray as one had been landed last week. There were no Rays between the 4 boats that fished the area but there was countless dogfish. In between there were some Bream and i also had a gurnard, dab and whiting. After a couple of hours it was apparent that there were no rays there this week so we headed in to about 2.5 miles to drift for Plaice. After about. For the last hour we went to the 2 mile marker and drifted for a bit. This is where my anguish starts, as my rod doubled over and there was a real crashing dive and fight. It was so strong that it almost felt like a snag except that it was pumping and thuding. To me it felt like a typical Bass fight and thats what can be caight over the patch of ground we fished. After about 3 minutes of trying to get the fish in and only making about 10 ft on it i felt the heart breaking twang as my hook came loose from the fishes mouth and it was gone. I think the worst thing is that i didnt get to see it, which means it will always be that mystery fish that got away. I knew it was a very big fish as i have had Smoothounds up to 7lb on the rod i was using and this fish was much tougher! Afterwards, I went over the fight in my head trying to think if i had done anything wrong but i done everything that you should and i think that this is my only comfort because it just bad luck that the fish must have been lightly hooked. Upon getting back to the beach my friend Steve told me that he lost a Plaice that would have been over 4lb! Despite these tales of woe I had an enjoyable day and there were some good catches including a Plaice of 3lb 1oz (pic to be added). I ended the day with 2 dogfish (2 is the club quota), 2 Bream, 1 Plaice and a Garfish for about 7lb and third place. Pevensey Bay has produced some schoolies and flounders during daylight and Pout, Sole and Pin whiting after dark.  20/04//09 Its been another relatively calm week and this means that more fish are starting to show. Reports of mackerel and Gars are coming in as well as the odd Bream which means summer fishing is starting. There have also been quite a few Dogfish caught along Worthing and Shoreham beaches after dark. Seaford has also been producing good numbers of them as well as Pin Whiting, Pout, Flounders and Dabs. There have been reports of Small Smoothhounds being caught all around the sussex coast which looks good for this years season. I will start with Brighton Marina. Mackerel and garfish have begun to show in better numbers on both arms this week. Feathers and Float fished mackerel strip have proven best tactics. Wrasse around the 1lb mark have been caught down the side of the wall on worm baits. There was also reports that a large Pollack was caught on the east arm which went around the 6lb mark. This is a very tidy fish for the marina. There has also been the odd Flounder, Bream, Gurnard and Plaice during daylight. After dark there have been a few Dogfish, Sole and 2 Smoothhounds caught (one of which was around 6lb). Charlie Gill (my prodigy) fished the arm on sunday morning and thanks for his report: really new to fishing but am totally hooked excuse the pun. decided to have a quick session today late last night but had no bait so i call my mate ideyboy up and he sorted me out with some frozen lug and squid. fished brighton marina east arm today peg 22 arrived at 5:15am there was a 13 mph NE so it made it flat although it was fairly blowy high tide was 7:20ish, fished with two rods launched one out with a one up one down with lug and squid tippers size 2 hooks and on the other rod i just droped it down the side. After a couple of mins taking in my surroundings i realised that about 5 yards out there were herring splashing about as i pulled in the rod down the side i had a tiny pout so put him back and stuck on my shrimp feathers with a 2oz weight on my first cast i got my first ever herring out of ten casts i got 4 after all that fun i forgott my other rod a pulled that in and had a double shot of pin whitting. I carried on fishing till 9 but nothing else apart from a couple of mackerel. my old man turned up around 6:30 he had king rag he had 7 mackerel 1 shad 1 gurnard and a couple of wrasse. Well done Char, get back out on the kayak soon mate. Moving onto other areas and Chris Ellis had this great catch in the week: I've attached a picture of a 6lb bass I caught today on lugworm 20 yards out a Rustington beach, might look good on the site shows the summer fish are just coming in. As for me, i fished with HDSA on sunday 19/04/09. This is an inshore boat club that only go a few miles out. The weather was nasty to start with because a strong NE wind was making the sea choppy but towards the afternoon it calmed down as per the weather report. The target species was Plaice but any fish count as its done on overall weight but with bonus points for target species. The wind was up and it was a short tide which made drifting for Plaice difficult. Nevertheless, I headed to the same area (out from Brighton Marina) that had produced for me last week (6 Plaice) but despite there being lots of fish this week they were all undersize. Included in my catches were Plaice, Dabs, Whiting, a Gurnard, Mackerel and a Smoothhound pup. Unfortunately, despite catching what felt like and must have been 50+ fish i only managed to get a sizeable Plaice and Dab. Most of the dabs were frustratingly half a centermetre undersize. I tried all tactics (larger baits & larger hooks etc) and moved to a few different patches but i really struggled to get past the smaller fish. Baits included rag, lug, squid, crab and Mackerel. Most of the other boats scratched around for sizeable fish as well, but a couple of boats that headed to different grounds in and around the hove area produced some good catches including Plaice, Mackerel, Dabs, Bream, Gurnards, Dogfish, Undulated Ray , Bass and Garfish. The most notable catches were made by Harry Leeson with a 2lb 11oz Plaice and a 9lb undulated Ray (Pics below). There was also a 1lb 8oz Bream and 1lb Gurnard landed. The rivers Cuckmere, Adur and Ouse have begun to produce Flounders, Mullet, Eels and Schooly Bass so if you prefer the light tackle approach then it may be time to get your gear out. Tight lines and have a good week. Please keep the reports coming.  12/04//09 This week has seen calmer weather after a windy start. The wind start put some colour in the water which has lead to some good catches. I have a load of reports which will hopefully give you some good reading and anticipation of going out and catching some fish. One thing is apparent is that the fishing has begun showing signs that things are pciking up and there is an air on anticipation. I will start with Brighton Marina. Ben Arnold fished the east arm around the first few pegs at teh start of the week and managed this lovely two and a half pound Eel. When the water has been clearer there has been a few Gars and Pollack caught. The wrasse have begun to appear down the side of the wall caught on worm baits. After dark there has been some dogfish, Sole and even Smoothounds albeit pups.   There was a Palace Pier match on the East Arm on Sunday. MrCrabs won with 5lb 8oz which included a new club record wrasse of 2lb 9.75oz, ben A was 2nd with 3 wrasse for 4lb 13oz, biggest was 1lb 15oz. Other than the wrasse there were a few garfish weighed in. Hopefully mrcrabs will let us know more. Shoreham arm has also produced similar results to the marina with the addition of some good sized flounders. Worthing, Shoreham and Seaford beaches have all produced Dogfish after dark. There was also a Small Smoothy pup at Pevensey as well as Dabs, Whiting and Pout. I fished the HDSA centenery launch match Shotoday (inshore boats). The target species were Plaice. In total there were 20 anglers in ten boats and the conditions looked fine, although recent trips had not yielded much. At the launch the boats headed out in various directions towards their desired marks. Plaice were the target species with a bag limit of 5 but other species (excluding mackerel) were included. Me and Pete headed for an area just off brighton marina. After setting up we were straight into fish but they were all pin whiting and small dabs. As we drifted the tide picked up and we managed the small rattles turned into deeper thumps which lead to us getting 3 Plaice in a short space of time. As the tide slackened things slowed down and it was back to dabs and pout. As the tide turned we drifted again and i managed to land two double shots of Plaice (3 sizeable and 1 not) and pete had one Plaice. Pete also landed a dab on the second drift over the area. We were using long flowing running ledgers with size 2 hooks. I used 2 hooks on one rod and one on the other with beads and attractors. The fish came either side of the tide when drifting at about 1mph. they succumb to fresh black lug and king rag. Once i had my quota of Plaice i tried other things and managed to get a smoothhound around 1lb on crab. Whilst messing around for bait i also caught 5 mackerel (all very deep) and 2 whiting on feathers! that shows how close to the bottom i was going for them. My biggest Plaice was 1oz shy of 2lb. I came 2nd in the match on weight but got maximum points for my Pliace quota so it was a really good day. Me with my days catch. Amongst the catches was a 4lb codling (caught near billy bouy) and two Plaice around 2 and a half pound. There was also a few sizeable dogs and one sizeable smoothy. A gar was caught. A few Pout were also taken at the jennies and suprisingly my dad had a red mullet! All boats fished within 4 miles of shore between shoreham and brighton. There were also a few Bream landed by the boats that fished nearer to Worthing. My dad with his Red Mullet and Plaice. All in all a really good day with a real mixed bag of fish. I think one thing is becoming clear and that is that the summer season is on the brink of starting. The summer species are on their way in while the winter species are slowly departing. Personally, i was suprised with the smoothhounds showing a little earlier than eusual but hopefully it bodes well for this season.   06/04//09 This week has seen much calmer weather and as such we have seen the start of some summer species creeping in. Brighton Marina has seen the first Gars and Squid of the year turn up. Not in great numbers but they are there which is promising. There have also been a few Garfish at Worthing Pier. A few Schooly Bass, Pout and Wrasse have been caught down the side. There has also been one or two Pollack caught over the rocks on the east arm. Pevensey Bay and Seaford have fished pretty much the same. A few Plaice and Flounders with the odd Pout and Pin Whiting after dark. Me and Charlie gave the kayaks a go on sunday in an attempt to get some more Plaice. We set out from the west pier at 7.30 am and the sea was calm. We drifted for around half a mile but no luck. As we got further out the offshore breeze made paddling more difficult so we decided to fish inshore. We fished for a few hours but no bites and the wind swund easterly which put a chop on the water. As a result we decided to stop fishing and put the fishing gear away and went back into the water to paddle in the surf. I was using long flowing Plaice rigs with beads and size 2 hooks with King for bait.  Thanks to Matt Cumbers for this report from Seaford: Fished a short session opposite the beachcomber in Seaford on Tuesday evening 5-8. Was using straight forward 2 hook pats with fresh blow lug, started off with a small blenny in first half hour then as it got towards dusk the bites picked up a bit and I got 2 reasonable size dabs just before the light went. I'd say they weren't more than 50 yards out.  Nice enjoyable session in the sunshine. A few boats fished out from HDSA on sunday in search of plaice. They drifted patches between 2-5miles out but nets were a bit of an issue. There wasnt too much to report but there was a few Plaice landed between the boats but nothing of significantly notable size.   30/03/09 Brigthon Marina has been producing a few Flounders and Schooly Bass when it has been open. The Palace Pier club had a match on sunday and there were quite a few Flounders caught on King rag, Red rag and crab but most of them were undersize. One approaching 1lb was caught by someone who wasnt in the match. There were also a few Wrasse and Pout caught down the side of the wall. There was some Pollack caight on prawn up near rocks but nothing of any size. There have also been one or two Shad caught on Saturday. According to reports there was a garfish caught on Worthing pier in the week. The mackerel are only a few miles out and providing that the weather stays relatively calm they should be within casting distance soon. Two boats fished out from HDSA on Sunday with Plaice being the target. Unfortunatley i couldnt go but the sea was very calm and all i was doing was day dreaming of being on my Kayak. The boats drift fished about 2 miles out from the club and managed to land 7 Plaice in total, with a couple being around 2lb caught on rag and fresh lug. Seaford and Pevensey Bay have been producing similar catches to most areas with small whiting and rickling being caught after dark and some Flounders during daylight. Besides these reports there really hasnt been much to feedback im afraid. Im afraid its just that time of year where all winter fish are going and the summer fish are on their way in and this recent wind didnt help things. Hopefully much more to report next week.    23/03/09 Firstly, I am aware that the picture of my snapper may not have worked so i have tried to fix this and add it for any of you that wished to see it. As for this weeks catches and reports i have a few but again it seems that there is not much about. I will start with my kayak fishing session. After buying my kayak in Dec i have been itching to get out on it and the current weather presented the perfect opportunity. I had purchased accessories such as a fishing seat with rod holders as well as some safety equiptment and was all set and ready to go. Me and my mate Charlie fished from Hove (near hove lagoon) and paddled out about a mile to near the inner jennys. I can assure you that the water was still chilly as my feet were like ice but my wet suit kept me warm throughout. We anchoured up over a patch of rough ground for about an hour and tried various tactics and baits but to no avail so we decided to drift for plaice. We were using running ledgers with beads and attractors on to appeal to the Plaices inquisative side. They were about 5ft long flowing rigs and we were using light geat and 2oz weights. You could feel every patch of ground and every little knock or snag. After the first drift using ragworm we had nothing so we went out again. I decided to use some freshouts and so we drifted again. After a couple of minutes there was a knocking that was different from just the bottom. After leaving it to develop for a brief while i reeled in and felt the welcome resistence of a Plaice about12oz (which i released alive after the photo). We also tried some lures and feathers in the vein hope that there may be some early mackerel about but no luck. We drifted again but to no avail so called it a day after 4 hours. Im itching to get out again once some more summer species are around. We also tried trolling lures, plugs and shads behind us whenever we were paddling out but to no avail, but it is ear;y in the year and im sure we will have better luck as the summer approaches. If anyone has any marks within a mile of the shore between seaford and worthing they wish to email me, then it would be greatly appreciated. If you have a kayak your also more then welcome to come along with me and my mate. I am also going to be developing Kayak fishing pages and guides to help thise of you that are kayak fishermen or those of you looking to get into it. As for elsewhere, Brighton Marina has been producing a few Plaice and Flounders. There were reports of a Plaice over 3lb being landed. There are still a few herring showing up as well as some Schoolie Bass. Not much else to report in terms of catches from the marina but providing this calmer weather stays then im sure the summer species will not be far off. Glenn Arnold fished Pevensey Bay midweek and caught a few eels and flounders on peeler crab. Shoreham has been producing a few Flounders as well as some Pin Whiting and Rockling after dark. Seaford has fished very much the same as most other areas and it really seems that its a case of waiting for the summer species to start turning up.