Hi all, 

Fished tidemills on sunday in a HDSA match. Fishing was between 1230 and 1730 with a pegged match with about 16 anglers. Usual HDSA beach rules applied (if you have read my previous posts). I had pretty much everybait i could need (having dug in -1 on the previous morning). This included whites, reds, blow, black, king rag, squid and mackerel. I had an assortment of rigs including wishbones, 1up 1down clipped downs and pennels with a mix of hook sizes to cover all bases.

I started with optimism as the sea was coming in and relatively dirty, although the fres SE wind was slighlty denting my optimism. A few casts in and nothing was biting. The bright sunshine and SE wind was slowing things, or at least that was my 'fishermans excuse'. No one on the beach was catching and then suddently i hooked into a couple of whiting all on rag on the bottom hooks as did a couple of the anglers near me. None sizeable though. Mine was 26cm and three quarters but no chance of going to 27, unfortunately. It went quiet again until dusk set just after HT and some whiting started to show, mostly on my fresh black. The 1up 1down was proving most productive.

I had a few double shots but again none sizeable, most tiny but a couple near the mark. In total i had about 9 fish but no sizeable ones. My first blank of the year in only my second comp! doh but at least its out of the way and I caught something. Most people blanked and the 3 of us that were top of the league all blanked but some sizeable fish were caught, a few dabs, rockling and a flounder. Judge P managed a few sizeable fish to beat me too, which he reminded me of lol!

That said, as it was the best 5 of 8 matches, im pleased to say that i won the winter beach league and gave myself a pat on the back having won my first league. Fingers crossed its the start of more, i hope. nice way to start the year.

In summary, as you probably already know, there are better places to fish than tidemills at the momment lol.

Shoreham beach 17/01/12

I had a quick 45 min session last night on shoreham beach. My first since moving there. Grabbed a rod, tripod, 2 rigs and a wrap of black and walked 100 yards over to the beach. Fished from 1800 - 1845ish and was using 2 hook clipped down (1up1down) rig. there was a light breeze but relatively calm and enjoyable. there was a light breeze but relatively calm and enjoyable. No one else was around so had the beach to myself. Within minutes of each cast i was getting bites. first retrieve had 2 sizable whiting. Next 4 casts produced double shots each time except last cast with 1. The rest of the fish were undersize whith some very small ones but at least i had 2 keepers for fresh whiting dinner that eve! lush and looking forward to some more ventures across the road! Would say use bigger baits to avoid the smaller ones if you are considering it.

Pevensey bay
Has produced whiting in the day and night as well as Flounders and Dabs.

Tight lines for 2012!