…..OCTOBER ! Dang, the 28th already and it seems like August has been and gone in the blink of an eye!
How can I sum up August, well easy done in one word .CRAP. yep, the fishing has been an absolute shitfest IMO. While I realise there have been some decent fish this month (including them sea slugs) over all I cant recall a crappier August on the marina walls and its not jus because we have lacked the west wall access for the whole of the summer.

Looking around at other Sussex venues it has been a similar story. fek even the Dover area has at times had it tough. If the “good” catches posted from Shoreham walls are anything too go by most would likely as not nod their heads & say yes a poor year. I’m betting most reading this will be thinking oh fuk he gonna speculate on why its poor and roll out a ton of excuses. Well, no, I have speculated already this year on why its so poor so I recon by now you also have an opinion of why its so crap lately.

On the up side it looks like the work crews are near done on the extension as there is heavy plant equipment on the bays high near the toilet block…. Could they be on for an early finish ? oh how I hope so, I must try n get a chat with someone on site.

Now, I realise I havnt posted for a couple of days. TUES was a family day so no report posted for Mon or Tues and lacked the will too post in all honesty, so, whats been happening ?
the joy of not posting leaves an issue that I gotta throw my memory in reverse & tbh, it’s not the best thing when it goes forwards yet alone rewinding but today in many ways the windy weather has helped me out.

So, Tues a seriously slow day for most on the wall and hard pressed too find anyone of the few left claiming too have caught. Granted the wall was almost empty but you normally expect someone around who had seen something. so other than a couple of bass confirmed the general story was , where are the bream ? high came & went and those working the low bays were all saying the same thing “no fish” well not quite no fish on the low bays as it seems bay 1 has become the home for some very hungry blennies and it seems that the usual Bream on the lower 15 bays have packed bags n hiked it off on holiday ! go figure.
TUES as said I took a family day with the wife & jnr and we spent the day toasting a few beers too the memory o my mother in law.

Yesterdays visit was one of the quickest I have made and rather than open the side gate I rolled the quad straight onto the upper level and didnt expect anyone too be above the steps at bay 10., there were a few fishing still come late afternoon and the highest pair were up on 20. Both had bass too report & while not large a couple were decent enough for the table. Most of the info I could gather was the day boiled down too bass and eels as the wind blew constantly from the South West.
I will take the quad down later to see if the very well stirred up water throws up, tbh Im not expecting too see too many down there but ya never know.
Thats it, lots of words for fairly little too go on. And so, until the next one I will bid you all ADIEU
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