Nope, I haven’t lost the plot, I looked at the forecast & thought, ok it says westerly, so lets see if its accurate, soooo look out the window and “Look at the trees” well, more the tree tops which then give me an idea of what may be happening on the seafront on the weather front.

Now the bad news, its fathers day and if you are coming into Brighton this morning… good luck ! its gonna be fecked with the annual charity bike run (London to Brighton.) Every bloody fathers day Sunday this now is.. dumb arse organisers…
THUS if you plan to hit BTN come via the back route of BYE PASS/AMEX/DOWNS HOTEL WILSONS AVENUE, because most central routes A23/M23 are going to be well clogged rapidly.

Right, thats enough waffle(almost) has anything been caught?.. in a word or 6, YES. now I could be a shit and leave it at yes & sign off and, yes, I thought about it but tbh more than 4 read this waffle and Id end up with wtf messages as I make my way to yet another un previously visited hospital somewhere up the back arse of Sussex. Can you feel my joy ? oh yes its real… some of the appointment bookers have a sick or warped idea of bookings for me. Im sure there is a map somewhere pinned to a cork board and the bookers read where the patient is and then throw fekin darts at the map on where to send… or maybe its just me it happens with !
Todays excursion, Haywards Heath and for a change not the Princess Hosp. but the Nuffield on burrell rd tucked behind the station. Chris, (yes I remembered your name… again) I may wave as I drive through your current patch :).

Well thats another chapter done with out mentioning a single species! Im getting damn good at this waffle stuff eh, but more seriously I took a trip on the now borrowed quad (almost the same make ) as the company that supply my Motability scooter finally had a spare that if working correctly would get me like a hobbit out on an unexpected (almost) journey…. waffle 3… fish zero;) Im still not sure if its working fully charged as it arrived part charged so plugged it on charge for a couple hrs prior to rolling to gp and then down into the marina. I can confirm the charge indicator is faulty, as like my scooter i can watch the charge meter go down, turn it off then on again and like magic ive a near full(allegedly) charge being displayed Any hoo it did get me home via LIDL with the power meter showing 2 red & 2 of 4 orange & zero green… got home, turned it off, then on annnndddddd yup display showed a near full charge FFS. so Friday I learnt, faulty charge meter for sure, as to distance about 5 miles. the scooter maker claims 24 miles but I suspect that is on the flat with a 9 stone person on it, im 19stone (yea I know.. fat old fuk) when new though for 2 months I got 18-19 miles out of it. even if the old(funny term for a year old scooter) one gets fixed, I cant say im left feeling very confident that it wont keep developing issues.. it almost like I got the one that came with a few gremlins installed, so im hoping it cant be fixed and Motability sort a new scooter.

Shall we do the fish now? yea fek it, why not. Friday, Alex was still fishing, i’d said Id pop down if done in time at gp and suprise surprise I also saw cooperman on bay 1-2 spread out with enough gear to make him look like a pro… or a carp fisherman with 2.7 tons of gear to pack into some old mini clubman ! and another face recognised halfway up the east was as prior mentioned fishing was Chris of the “I remember you name” fame 🙂 A quick chat with duty warden John and I had the info I wanted even if you lot at this point havnt 😉

As Chris mentioned and also posted to the “great book of face” there was mid wall at least one Gurnard, schoolie bass up to 3 lbish, a scattering of plaice and further up the east into the 50s a similar story of flatties, bass, and some of those delightful Giant Sea slugs(conger)
Also over the last few days Nick has been doing his best to get not only a PB (didn’t) bass but also one for the Sussex arms collection (succeeded) of which I may even pop up on that particular gallery in a day or 2.

Sussex arms you ask ? check out the gallery, it started as a joke comment with wall visitor Matt B who was joking how people in Sussex would hold fish at full arms lengths to get a piccy of said fish so the phrase of fish arms became Sussex arms for piccys that the catcher was holding fish at full arm to make em look better. I then started posting images of “Sussex Arms” and asked ppl to guess the weight. the pics were done to deliberately mask true size but were tagged as Sussex arms for a bit of fun.
other catches even though there werre not loads fshing after a close day were a few decent plaice amongst the skinny ones, blennies and scorpion fish close into the V’s and Tony Elliot hauled up a decent spider crab around bay 12, that I will get a pic up of for the marina gallery.

Over the last week the dominant feature has been the wind with as many days shut as open so not the best of conditions with heavy weed again pulling rigs around the high tides being the worst.
Water state is improving and FRIDAY the may rot had very clear signs of burning itself out. Although still there in the water it doesnt seem too bad and seems to have stopped coating lines on retrieve.
Bass & conger the order of the week, with a few plaice, a ray or two miked in with gurnard, plaice, dab, rumours of a sole or two with smaller stuff down the V’s becoming more common. Not too many reporting spider crabs so either there are much fewer than last year, perhaps they doing the do somewhere else this year or…. they haven’t truly arrived yet !

on the weather front, after today things rapidly improve throughout the week as daytime temps start creeping towards 30 degrees and over. Based on current forecasts the east will be open all week and no doubt beyond and dare I say it….. it looks like the summer is arriving (queue the rain) or as Sir Cliff sang ” here come summer”

Dont forget, the east wall can be a deceptive sun trap, take plenty of fluids and a hat with you and if you have kids with you pack the sun cream, you are going to need it…. While there abouts and mentioning fluids. For those that like a tipple, we have no objection to people having booze on the wall providing they are sensible and aware to other wall users. We also ask that people DO NOT bring glass onto the walls. Cans and plastics please, if you prefer wine or spirits please with wine buy the boxed stuff or transfer from glass to plastic containers, likewise with spirits please leave the glass at home.
Aaannnnd on that note, you all know whats coming, so I will sign off as usual and bid you all, until next time ADIEU
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