Morning world(at time of typing.) had a message during the day while making phone calls to patient transport (more hosp visits up coming) and to the ppl that have borrowed my mob scooter(the quad) to try n figure out if the thing is repairable or just cursed (another story of its own). Upshot of the message was, a mate was fishing the east & if I was likely to head down.
I replied id prob be down about 5 and would bring some frozen baits with me in case anyone was wanting & shop had shut. I now have a couple of cooler boxes and plenty of ice packs to keep the bait frozen so, yesterday was a good day to test the ice packs and work out a secure way to fish the cooler to the quad. It seems the bag I have on back of quad has a couple of extra straps for doing just that so 4.30 ish hooked up cool box with about a dozen ice blocks with black & squid and headed out, part for a nosey, part to catch up with Alex and part to see how the cool box & ice blocks held up over a couple hrs.

As I got to the cafe the cafe dudes 2 dogs clocked my approach straight of resulting in the spaniel sat alert to my right as the black mutt promptly climbed onto my lap on a biscuit hunt, much to the amusement of the 2 ladies that had been petting them for the dogs to totally abandon them on sight of me!
Anyhoo treats handed out(asked owner first) I opened the wall side gate & rolled onto the wall.

Quite a few fishing the lower bays(under 15) yesterday afternoon and quite a few familiar faces and oe or 2 new names for me to pretend I might actually recal a name or 2 of those I talk too then fail to lock names in my head(quite normal for me) Anyhoo I did actually manage it honest guv and now its not written on the back of my hand(oldies will get the reference) Was nice chatting with you yesterday Tim(not Tim A ;)) and as I said yesterday, if the weather is ok and im not doing the NHS circuits of the south east of England…
……. I am intending to try and get onto the wall as often as I can around 5pm with bait for those that find the shop shut, mostly I suspect it will be frozen , but I will do my best to get fresh black usually from the lads that dig for themselves locally. The shop will have fresh black more often than I as they have a much bigger number of sources.
Prices wont be more than the shop charges and if wanted I can arrange to meet any wanting bait between or near the west wall and volks rail last station.

Fish reports while a bit thin on the ground as I only got a little info from the morning was yesterday dominated by bass catches, some beginning of wall, high 20’s low 40’s and the usual’s as expected on 60 & 74. Mark kindly posted a decent pic of Roy A with a nice bass taken near 60 of which I will add to my list additions going on site via various galleries plus the 3 here.

Other than those reporting bass there was a gurnard high up but not only were there lacking many anglers on the middle part of wall but the catch reports were either absent or non existent !

There were Bream caught and the bulk of these were on or about bay 20 or lower and mostly over the high tide. Catches reported were strangely very much lacking any plaice although as said the reports were a bit hit & miss
As often happens with me , I stop & chat with as many as I can so I am guilty of seeing many regulars and totally forgetting names resulting in near every time forgetting who i am talking too. And its even if the face has been known to me for some years so I apologies to the lads in the high 30’s yesterday, as I stopped and had a very interesting chat ranging from blank times for fish on the wall, may rot and managed to spook one of the 3 by saying how his bass had to go back as was too small (easily 47cm) and yes I will mention you told me about the one you lost that was bigger 🙂

Well thats it for today, I will pop down (tues) today so, if you are on the wall and reading this , I will see you some time after 5pm as I stick my nose onto the wall for a look see /catch up and yes will have frozen bait with me.
Thats it, so, until tomorrow I will bid you all ADIEU
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