day, another week and just like that Monday slaps you in the face before it has even got light. It’s so rare I’m up this early on any day that I’d damn near forgotten what it feels like any more !…
And thus we get straight into it being as I’m a bit pushed for time this morning what with the Surgeon dude wanting me at H Heath at some gawd awful time of day, “be on the ward for 7.30am ” he says.. wtf its not like I have been invited for breakfast even though they want me to starve myself prior too gracing their doorstep(as such). Mind U I will be glad too be rid of this painful Gall Bladder.

Best make the most of this report (not that there is much to put) as not sure what day I will be down on the marina next (Thurs possibly). So wtf has been happening ? And it is at this moment I have not had much chance too look back over the last 3 days nor did I actually get chance to talk too Ali yesterday so a quick pause too see if I can jog my slack memory.
Ok that break was little help, Fri… visit too anaesthetist, sat, Watched BTNs opening draw Vs Fulham(less said about that one the better) Sun, Oh yea, that was yesterday so fish, wtf are the fish. Now I know Sussex is a bit of a fish desert during the day da but I can’t believe that no one posted anything from the wall in almost 2 day especially at the weekend.

I do know Friday the bulk of catches were quite early and mark reported mackerel and bass in the morning when opening up. How many mackerel ? from what info I can glean there were not many and they were fairly much in & out again within the first hour and made people work for them with a string here and there. bream and wrasse were also had with the better numbers from the Bream. Again were reported some red mullet aka goat fish. At this point I could put a large chunk of post all about romans Exporting the fish all over the empire in the days when there were decent fish stocks but instead will keep it short.

Plaice … yep them flatties are seemingly making their return somewhat a little earlier (by my reckoning) than the usual Autumn time and catches of plaice do seem up although if I am honest the fishing sorta sounds great as you read it in your head but it truly is quite pants for many and its not just the Sussex part of the coast. On talking too various bods that travel for their fishing things are tough inshore from Dover to Chesil and beyond.
Mackerel are very intermittent with no real shoals on the move locally ( still suspect the 2 weekends either side of the 20th for them to show in any numbers and judging by squid reports along the coast at Chesil and Portsmouth regions I suspect we will start to see a rise in numbers of squid somewhen in the next 2 weeks possibly following the mackerel that everyone are lingering for.

Saturdays fishing ? if im being fully honest I dont know. As most of the last bunch of posts have shown things are tough out there for everyone and there is no real way of making it look good.
Sunday on the wall when I got there was a similar story from most of this last week. Granted I didn’t see the morning tide, nor did I meet more than three people who had been there all day.

When I did arrive on the marina Sunday afternoon there was a cross wind from the EAST that was cutting things up and rapidly clearing the lower portions of the wall by chucking up water spouts from the second “V” on the wall fairly much every V from bay 2 had large wet patches and sea spray drifting on the wind.

As a result of the wind as said many were leaving and those who were ganging on for a fish and as one put it ” Im hanging on for an hour, I only want one fish and I have been here all day!” much of the front section of the wall (24-55) was reporting “NO FISH” or responding to my ask of “do you need anything” the same reply was there no fish was ringing in my lug holes all along the wall until……
Oh shit we got an until and it wasnt from John H who did have a good session but he was hidden on 74.

That until? well it was on bay 54 where a dude when I asked how he was doing said ATM crap but earlier (mid dayish) seemingly hit into a shoal of mullet. Some were returned and 2-3 were kept and yes they looked a decent size so there went the cliché about them foreigners that took everything because he had in his back as said, 2 or 3 decent keeper mullet and a Bream or two, vague numbers but I only took a quick glance and yea I can mix up Bream & mullet if decent sizes and a very token glance, so not only did he keep “in size” fish but he also confessed to returning quite a few…. bloody shocking behaviour eh 😂😂

Anyhoo I must add at this point he wasnt the only one too catch a fish as “A” seemed order of the day for most, there were one or two bream caught mostly above 35 and a couple of small returned plaice. And that was as such it, or as much info from the wall that I could get other than rolling the quad too the end of the lower bays at 74 where John was fishing with his lad (maybe nephew, brain fails me) in the corner as I tend too call it on bay 74.

Now before the world charges up too bay 74 too catch all these fish to follow I should point out that John collects his own worms and mighty fine they are indeed, for those that have had some from him they can vouch for the quality. John is also an experienced and damn good angler and knows how too fish tricky marks such as that corner. Scores on the doors for John and the lad yesterday was,
Sole, 10+ plaice, 4 red mullet and a strap eel in afternoon conditions that put most off and had them heading home earlier than they thought.
Needless too say with the constant wind churning the lower bays , the water quality in close wasn’t very good and had churned into that pale milky looking yellow/green as the debris from the shore line churned against the east wall.

Looking at the next few days things look dry all week, light to med (14 mph to 20/25) Monday and similar Tues, then Wed to Sun are looking good too fish and that water should clean up quickly.
Website & blog wont be updated for a few day while the knife jockey’s bugger about with my internals but things should be back too normal in a few days.

Well thats it from me today, anyone wanting bait when the shop is shut can contact my Lad Michael while im not available. Other than that all thats left is for me to sign off today and bid you all ADIEU
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