Bet ya cant guess what was mostly caught yesterday ? need a clue ? well it wasn’t mackerel that’s for sure 🙂
Right then, waaassssuuuuuuuuuppppppppppp ?
Monday I gave the wall a miss being as the weather was pants and the wall was shut in the afternoon. The beauty of the EAST though is its shape. With more SW to westerlies and general wind patterns we can often keep at least part of the wall open when the wind picks up as the lower 10-15 bay are somewhat sheltered from the worst of the weather bar Hefty SW, South or SEast winds. Granted as things picked up yesterday it did become too much to stay open and Mark shut shop about 1pm.
Now while I dont have much of a catch report I can confirm one catch that was posted too a wall regulars FB page of an 8lb bass that looked from the piccy to have been caught very close to the bend ! go figure If I can re find the pic I will get it up on the gallery.. Dumbarse here didn’t think too save the pic as Im so used too “acquiring” the posted pics from the marina group…… which reminds me…

The FB group “Brighton Marina Fishing UK”, a few words.
Firstly I am aware for non members the social media floating buttons on the home page that link to the marina group don’t work for non members. Unfortunately I cant change that . While I realise it doesnt work for non members it does for members , it works that way because of the groups global fb settings of being set too invisible to non members.
It would be easy to think , … well thats fkn soopid but.. its done that was as the group was having issues with spam accounts, malicious posters(removed) and a collective group of people best described as a pain in the arse as they bombard fishing groups en mass asking for mackerel and are solely focused on the one fish. Thy have no interest in angling or learning other methods, often show up at a venue with brand new and unused rods 1 weight & 1 set of feathers and absolutely no no how of fishing. I realise everyone has to start somewhere but these people often have no interest in learning anything other than ripping 4 buckets of mackerel out of the water for what ever reason they use the fish for once home with their haul.
This all sounds like im anti mackie fishing, Im not and am willing to teach anyone at any level of skills if they want too learn but Ive little too no time for people that are on a venue for mackerel out of pure greed that bring 2-6 big buckets (one once had a council wheely bin ffs) spend their entire time expecting too rip 100s of mackerel out and then overload containers & cart them too a hatchback car with a black bag lined boot. I wonder after 8hours on the wall in the sun at the condition of said likely as not squashed & crushed fish that then took another 3 hours too drive home. I bet the car would stink worse that a mouldy fishmongers place ! erk
And thus the group was set to invisible !
How does this help someone too join a group that is hidden from view unless you are a member .. well it doesnt BUT, I will tell you how too at least get an invite.
You need too know (have someone on your friend list) someone already in the group
OR find someone on the wall that is willing too add you too their friend list so that they can send you an invite.
Please note that if you are sent an invite YOU MUST answer the 3 questions, the FB settings mean that if you don’t your application will time out … TIME OUT eh wtf someone out there said.. well all invites too join are time limited to 1hour. If you get an invite you cant save it til later, it will vanish after an hour.

Right then, back on track from Mark closing on Monday.
The wall re opened Tues morning as normal at 6.30am to heavily coloured water and (found out later) loads of feathery fernlike WEED ! loads of it that got worse after the low tide, it wasnt unfishable but it made things a bit messier, and, yes catches too come after a bit more waffle..WHY? coz I can, so there 😉

OK, so after a GP appointment where a very nice man slabbed me in both knees with a needle as long as my middle finger. Yes it went right into the middle of my knee joints, painful ? a bit, but boy was it worth it, for the 1st time in 4 years I could actually walk without need of a walking stick, granted not perfect and somewhat achy(minus the breaky heart shit)but too have constant pain and bone grinding in the knee for the last 4 years to become a normal state of things… well the change was almost as fast as the time it took me too stand up. Damn near miraculous in its own way ! Ok its only one small part of me thats now pain free but its a start and I can walk some short distances pain free.. now anyone out there with a spare lung or two so that I can breath normally while i walk ? fook, funny as shit tbh. Anyhoo back to yesterday 🙂

Yesterday, no not gonna think of the Beatles song…much.. So GP then home, wheels on charge and got ready loading the quad back up for a wall run & thought to myself I KNOW lets take another rod down & try not to break it on bay 8 or 9 if free once ive done my gossip run and catch up 🙂
SO we are back to the top line of this blog spot and what was caught yesterday, and yes it was mostly snotties and giant sea slugs aka silver and conger eels. there were other catches scattered about prior too me setting a light rod up on bay 9as 8 was already occupied by a pair who were on their 4th visit in a week (bloody addicts everywhere eh lmao)
Chris I gather had a fair few pout at least one wrasse and I think he mentioned an eel. Two or three people tried the higher bays nr 60 and one was on the last bay tucked in the corner so too speak on 74. I dont think anyone caught up on the high spots but maybe wrong. Lower on the front section amongst those using feathers (yup in mucky water but they did clear a fair bit later) bet ya cant guess what was caught yup more eels, granted the title refers to congers but too be honest there were more silver eel (all returned as protected) but I couldnt really put as a title , “snotties and more snotties”now could I?…..hmmmmmm…….

Anyhoo the general story of the day was most who caught yesterday got at least one eel(mostly silvers as said) a couple of anglers had erm, a couple of silvers. There were also a lot of pout scattered along the wall. On top of those glorious catches there were some micros including blennies and gobies. Ballan and corkwing wrasse are also out there and also, there are a few crabs too be had in the way of spiders, edible crab and velvet swimmers, finally I just remembered at close yesterday Chris landed a nice sole for his tea.

While the water later in the day did clear too a better green for those that were feathering unfortunately there were no mackerel had before closing at 9pm, as too my rod, well yes It did catch something in the way of a baby silver eel and a couple of small pout ,saved a blank I guess.
At time of typing this line (12.17pm) i have no info of morning catches so maybe will find out a bit later when I head down. Thankfully the council workmen have finished installing solar panels after much drilling and hammering and finally the house has gone somewhat quiet. Its weird, after so much noise the silence feels weird and very amplified, quite Erie in a way.

Right, enough, thats it dopey arse, sign off and do summat else other than fill the page with crap ! aaannnnndddddd so, until next time, yup I will bid you all ADIEU
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P.S. that bass, caught by KennyL on Tues prior to wall close