EAST WALL
THURS CLOSED
FRI OPEN
SAT CLOSED
SUN OPEN

SHOP HOURS for the weekend and next week
CLOSED Thurs & SAT
OPEN FRI & SUN
Fri, 7am til 3.30pm/Sun 7am til 3.30pm
NEXT WEEK…. 9th June to Sun 15th
Mon to Thurs.. 6.30am til 4.30pm
Fri & Sat 6.30 am til 4.30pm
AND Fri & Sat evening 4.30pm til 7pm
the shop will be (mobile I believe)on the EAST WALL with bait and tackle
SUN 6.30am til 4pm
FRI & SAT who ever is doing the shop run on the wall will be mobile and moving up & down the wall to you, IMO this is very useful, very helpful and they should be clearly marked with a jacket from the tacklebox

Yea yea ya all know what I mean. I didnt post yesterday as was on one of my jollies to see different doc’s in London to those I saw last week…. and different again to the week before that, its all fun here ya know, they give me free travel, free prods & pokes, free bruises, occasionally they even feed me if I’m behaving myself ! and what do I give in return? not a lot other than the occasional 4-7 vials of blood tests, I swap the blood for bruises, they seem to like the trade off more than I though & I suspect I may be feeding a family of vampires somewhere north of Brighton 🙂 but alas I am again diverging from the fishing and the lead title about congers !

With being closed on Tuesday there was little to report on yesterday so in a way I had little else to do other than entertain those overworked souls trapped in the eternal limbo that goes by the initials of NHS. Now I realise that may sound like me throwing a bit of mockery out regarding the UK health service but that is very far from the case, the staff I am always praising, especially those that have dealt with me, I may not seem a complicated guy but if you ever saw how thick my folders(yes plural)are for treatment and past treated, you would realise what an extraordinary job NHS staff do in treating the mass of conditions I seem to have invited into my body over the years.

….There are also a few more (probably many) but I only seen a small part of the thousands who work for the health services that are, truly extraordinary in what they achieve for others, and while I do have the occasional grumble most of the staff are, and do, often go that little extra simply because they can…..

……so if you ever see any NHS staff (especially the nurses) looking tired or seem grumpy its quite likely that yes they are tired, likely as not after pulling a near 16 hour day to make our lives just a little better.
So please, stop, take a pause, and have a think how their day may have been and then please…. stop them….. just for a few seconds if you can, and thank them with a smile, it may not be for any special or particular reason but say thanks and maybe say for everything they give their time too…..
……… You may have just give them that little lift, and reminder, that although we don’t thank them personally enough, random & out of the blue “thank-you’s” will go for miles and miles, passing from nurse to nurse as that nurse’s random thank you travels in the telling. Yes it has that impact, yes it has a power of its own to travel and lift others in the telling.

We all know how easy it is to say thanks at the given time to the person helping you. so if, as you leave, you grab a coffee at the hospital cafe or simply take a pause just before leaving the place, look around, can you see a nurse ? perhaps even a hospital porter( the guys that often miss out on the thanks as they wheel people to xray or scans… It doesnt really matter who of the staff it is, grab someone’s attention, add that one more thank you to your day, it may even be their 1st of the day !

I know I am rambling away from that fishy report (its very small) so run now if you got this far thinking WTF he’s lost it(I haven’t 🙂 ) but its a thought that often hits me as I leave the many many NHS visits I do as I creep past 60, please, do that one more TY, you may well just make their day.

Righty ho… “back to reality, back to life” as the tune now stuck in your head goes :)….
As I said, Tues was closed as is today and Saturday, my brain says its Thursday today so, yep, it probably is. From what I am told by the duty wardens and occasional post on marina with the weather being up n down , wet then blowing & combos of the worlds wrath(not really ;))..
Conger catches as I posted the other day (was it really Monday ?) have been the dominant story over the last 10 day with a high number of catches, Perhaps the news of them being about has increased the interest in having a go for these (as I call em) GIANT BLOODY SEA SLUGS and thus, “just like that” it sorta seems that everyone is wanting to do the CONGA, CONGA, CONGA (just a bit of John Belushi eh 🙂

Other than the sea slugs the big catch story seems to be the amounts of weed that the recent blows have pulled out of the sea but, so many were/have been reporting the wonderful & great lumps of fern like weed wrapping around lines, rig joints and links to the degree that many are not only missing bites but also were struggling to keep fish on the hooks when realised. The fish are in competition with the weed to get at the baited hooks !

.. any hoo, there have been bream, eels, hound pups, more eels, a small topknot, eels, some bass(mostly schoolies) did I say eels ? an occasional plaice, eels and one or two mackerel but tbh the conditions didn’t really suit catching mackies ! more like crabs & yes they are down there !
I guess I should finally mention that amongst the battle for the weeds the real winners were those that changed how they usually fish spots on the wall, they were the one who got a bit more adventurous than they usually would and a fair few caught their firsts , YES I’m talking about them BLOODY SEA SLUGS !

If you are still reading as I ramble on……. well done on getting this far but the bad news is, I’m on the coffee and on a roll…
yes there is more, nope I’m not done and i’m actually thinking to myself now of….. how long I can keep this ramble going before most go…. OFFS someone stop him 🙂 (evil chuckle moment)

Right… deep breath… shop news /info

As posted at the top (still reading ? gooood) Wall closed today and Saturday and the shop will be closed I’m told all day Saturday The shop messaged me today (ty Lee Demario)with their opening hours for the weekend and next week allowing anglers to grab some bait while the shop is open and even how & when they travel and it gives them the best options for when and where they grab their bait before wandering down to the EAST WALL, yes the WEST is still closed, possibly until late September but that is only an estimate on expected time to get the major works done..

You also may have noticed that on a FRI and SAT the shop intend to have someone early evening actually on the wall with bait and some level of tackle for those unable to make normal shop hours.

As a compliment to the trial opening when the shop is shut I have a stock of frozen black,
also from time to time I will also have fresh locally dug worm for sale and am looking into stocking some squid, either boxed or blister packs & possibly both.

Please note this bait will only be available out of normal shop hours. I won’t be selling anything when the shop is open. Some may think I’m setting up in competition to the shop, I am not, its more about making bait available to those that normally cant make the opening times of the shop and lets face it, no one running the shop would want to man it around the clock merely to get bait to the midnight anglers…. thus..

….If you want bait out of shop hours on the wall please let one of the duty wardens know as soon as you can, i am only 10-15 mins away from the wall and if viable or I’m headed that way anyway I can add a cool box with ice packs quite easily too my scooter and have it on the wall in less than 30 mins. The baits I have will be priced to match the tacklebox as I wont under cut them, nor will I bump prices over the shop rates.

For beach anglers I could also arrange a drop near the west wall as I come down the ramps on my scooter into the car park area near the last volks rail station.

Bait & how to get hold of me or the bait:)
Many of the regulars already know how to reach me, so there are a few options to getting bait out of hours with a 10pm cut off point.
1/ call me(if you know how)
2/ ask a regular on the wall if they have my contact.
3/ I am on messenger, if you know , you know
4/ ask a warden if there is bait available from me
If you don’t know my name (Frank) ask a warden for the dude that does the blog & website and if its worth my time I can and will drop down onto the wall with bait at shop prices if I have it

initially it will be
frozen black (sometimes fresh dependant on supply & tides) and frozen squid 1lb boxes and smaller blister packs, if there are any requests for specific baits I will look into viability.
Thats it for today

So, until the next post I will bid you all ADIEU
F