Happy Sunday folks. It seems things have started ok today but I shall start with yesterday evenings massive catch report when I went down in the late afternoon.

Thus, in my usual style of pad this shit out as much as possible.. 😂😂😂 packed scooter, checked weatherman’s report for rain that had kept changing all week as in, will rain wont rain will, yada yada yada, get the picture ? Any hoo I use xcweather set too the marina. Like most forecast sites its not always bang on but Ive got used too it and can mentally adjust a forecast from what’s on screen too actually being outside and erm… smelling the air. No shit, no bullshit I do smell the air for rain and overall air feel and smell combined with a look as xc usually leads me too an accurate estimate of forecast.
Thus showers were expected at 6ish til 7ish then a lull some more flash showers and I should then make it home in the dry b4 the possible night downpour… so was I right ? read on 🙂

So got into the marina and headed over too the east wall as I could see the 1st half of the west was empty and I wanted too get round it and over too the west toilet block prior too the first round of rain…. Well that was the plan BUT, yes, there is always a flippin but…..

Through the east carpak, swung a right onto the path too the east cafe hit the ramp up onto the upper level an scooter spluttered & stopped ! WTF ! turn off turn on, weird it wasn’t overloaded so tried again on the 1st bit of said ramp but much slower… and got about a foot before again spluttered & stopped !..really ? third attempt reaaaaal slow and bump bump scraping sound of a tyre rim grinding the concrete and safety cut off triggered. Thats when the penny dropped. Scooter wasn’t over loaded nor playing up, the rear right tyre was flat causing the scooter too be unbalanced and cut off. After a few expletives I checked the tyre just in case it was one of them slow puncture types and I’d missed the slow deflate only too find that it was going down almost as fast as I was trying too pump the damned thing up…. hmmm… what too do?

First thing was too turn the wheels around and point back into the marina. 2nd , phone the Mrs a situation update sorta thing and contact Motability, they told me too use the rescue number for a pick up, check, sorted and then phoned the actual company that supply said scooter too inform them of the issue, yes I was safe, no it wasn’t raining,(tempted fate on the known forecast) no, i couldn’t leave it in a safe place nor leave it unattended. At this point in the chat I was told only one firm available to do the pick up as all either busy or taken the BH weekend off and the bad news was the pick up at earliest would be 90-100 mins away, oh the joy, a wait of an hour plus and that bang on queue was when the rain started!
TBH I must have looked a bit odd. Scooter with a flat, me sat on a cool box with a golf umbrella up like some oversized gnome sat on a toadstool !

At this moment Mark rolled by and after a quick chat he told me both walls were empty now it was low tide and the 2nd set of showers was underway having piddled down 2-3 hrs early packing most off home soaked. Yep I coulda stayed at home in the dry and without that feking puncture !!!!!!! BAH.
so, looooonnnnng story short, no fish too report off either wall at something after six pm.

Pickup driver I must say was a superstar. he phoned me too say he was on his way and had bumped my pick up too the top of his list as I was the only recovery not indoors thus considered venerable due too weather conditions. He was super helpful, got me home with the scooter in good time and unloaded the scooter from the flatbed despite a down pour that was torrential. This he did even though I said was happy too wait for said rain too ease off but nope he shrugged the idea off got out of cab in jeans and a t-shirt and simply got on with it & you might have thought he was sunning himself rather than unloading in the driving rain.
Heck yes I thanked him properly !

All of yesterdays fun did mean that the only catch reports I could put up were bits n bobs gleaned from any earlier FB posts of which I can now update on.

I guess the best start point would be a post from Chris H & his mate Michael on the east yesterday on the morning tide and said he had,  “8 plaice biggest 25cm,2 tompot blennies,1 dab,I grey gurnard and a tub gurnard. 5 species Now, some may say, is that it? granted the plaice are small but that does seem too be a common theme all along the coast atm with the occasional decent size mixed in. Squid and Cuttle landed on both walls and oddly still only a few targeting them during the day. Most “squidding” seem too be late afternoon into the early evening and early dark hours. Granted tides may be the key too this peculiarity atm but hey, reasonable numbers of squid and cuttle are now being landed on both walls. I suspect the after dark numbers will increase as the number targeting them does the same. If you are not sure on the how too squid I’d suggest get yourself some fluorescent jigs that are weighted of which are probably the easiest too use much in the way someone would use a 25g dexter type wedge. Come down prepared too have a go and look around at some on the wall already throwing jigs out for them. It is easily picked up and there are plenty of how too links all over facebook and the net in general. Another popular jig type are the float set up ones and used in a fairly similar way too the weighted versions.

Info on yesterday is somewhat vague so I wont dwell there but I have had a little bit of a round up from Mark and John who is the day warden today.
After dark the walls have again been empty bar a handful of die hard’s and tbh only squid & cuttle have been mentioned although I do gather that some large squid have been lost either at the netting or due too a lack of net…
The early morning dawn and sun up saw some schoolie bass and squid on the west and a plaice here n there from the early arrival crowd. Over on the east , also squid shortly after opening at 6am and Im told that plaice , bass, bream, pollack, and dab have been caught. I gather the palace peir club are fishing on the east this morning and there is some fish activity for them. If anyone fancies joining a small group(or want more info) who regularly fish the wall Id say best contact person would probably be Glenn Arnold who can be found on quite a few of the various fishing groups on the book of face.

I shan’t be on the walls now until the wheel gets sorted & being a b/hol who knows when that may be so anyone needing something out of shop hours should ask a warden if anything can be done with regards too getting bait & tackle items out of hours.
Well thats todays yarn out of the way, or should I say done and dusted ?…. And with that all that is left to do is, until the next one, bid you all ADIEU
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