Weds.

[alun j.]

I was expecting a good day today...... with calm sea and flooding morning tide.

 

No sign of whiting when we arrived just before LW........ an eerie calm of grey cloud, grey water and no movement......... at least that suited my dodgy tummy, recovering from some excesses.....baits out and 20 winks!

 

AS soon as the tide started, so did the invasion of Doggies. Now Simon likes the odd huss or two, but he soon started to tire of the bait-robbing 'wet sacks'.

 

I switched one rod over to mackeral chunks rolled around in the tide and upped the size of squid baits on the other ........... but only with limited success; a few small whiting in between the dogs and one decent take on the big squid;this felt like one of those big eels over there rather than the hoped-for cod......but I never saw it as it slipped the hook half way in.

 

The whiting became a bit more abundent but mostly small ones; only two 'keepers', the better one going 2 lbs. 8.

 

Having been acclimatised to the tropical warmth of Florida for a couple of weeks, Simon was starting to look a bit blue as the wind freshened [ also not used to open boat].........so we pulled in early , as the tide eased......but not the succession of dogs.

 

Hoping for a better show tomorrow...... good luck to others going out, we might see a few of you at Lymington.

 

Cheers,

 

Alun.