as it says, yesterday I took the “quad” down into the marina, part to do a bit of shopping but also to mooch along the wall & say hi to a m8 fishing down there. Yes it had BEEN A WHILE SINCE I had been down and said hi to anyone fishing !…
So whats going on you may wonder?

First off I stopped above My m8 Colin and chucked a few dog biccys at him to get his attention. Nope he didnt even notice so had to shout at the deaf old bugger to get him to notice me. Was good to see him especially as he had been quite seriously ill through the winter & he seemed back to his cheery self I’m please to say.

Having spoken to him earlier about trying for herring 30 mins b4 the high he was well prepared and while lower on the bend he did manage to catch some about 10 mins b4 the high but they were mostly hard work and the bulk I saw caught yesterday were deep and probably feeding off the sandy patches. Further along the wall I found Joe (aka Tony) trying and catching herring on bay 24.

Now some wonder why I call him Joe (ex night warden) , well surprisingly his name is JOE shocker eh. so how come many call him Tony ? & yes he answers to both ! well that was Dave Grinhams fault. Joes dad WAS called TONY, and for ease Dave called them both Tony, so when JOE’s dad passed he simply carried on calling him Tony. Joe simply couldn’t be arsed to correct him after his dads loss and so the name stuck in Dave’s head. The result, when Joe started on the wall dave introduced him to everyone as Tony , so if you see Joe, he will answer to being called Tony 🙂

Ok, now I should get back to the fish having slanted off in a different direction. Somewhere in between Colin and Tony up on 24 was another familiar face who had been fishing and about to pack up so a quick chat with my mullet informant told me he had tried this week but informed be as I had suspected that while there are mullet in the marina (warmer water) they were not or seemingly not venturing out onto “usual” spots yet and as in his words, “if you don’t try you wont know.”

The herring arrived about 25 mins b4 yesterdays high at 2.55pm and some were caught upto about 20 mins after the tide as low as bay 12. only a few plaice were seen yesterday and the plagues of dogfish must have been hunting food elsewhere as things were quite slow yesterday.
Conditions of water atm are quite cloudy and little to no water visibility, fortunately there was plenty of spring sunshine so most were able to easily keep warm. Irony is todays forecast yesterday shown just an hour or 2 of sun shining and overcast the rest of the day…. how wrong has that proved as today seems the warmest so far this year, little to no wind and bright sunshine so far most of the day.


We still only have 24 bays to use, Im told the issues with the water have reached frustrating levels for Mark who wants to get more of the walls open and now he has been told there will be delays to getting the work on the west started. East water supply is still to be resolved and the result is he has all but come to a frustrating crashing halt .
Ho hum , plan c I guess
Well, thats it for today, so I bid you all ADIEU
F