A late night up watching the tv till the silly hour and what does the body do? yep, wakes me up at the crack of dawn ! Thankfully Dawn didn’t mind and the wife doesn’t read this very often 😉 plus I have a GP appointment later due too the spring vampire wanting their regular arm load of blood too test ! Anyhoo….

Whats going on,? 3 posts in a row, anyone would think I’m about too post a fishing report ! most unusual this early in the year. So, fishing report or just a catch up ? well more a catch up tbh plus a bit of news for a Monday morning.
As ya’ll recal Saturday was a bit of a shocker once the unexpected wind set in and did it damndest too freeze the brass balls off the three wise monkeys, well Sunday it was a case of chalk & cheese with regards too the sun coming out and the wind swung more too the easterly than anything else, was less fierce and erm it became very spring like, yup, spring had sprung.
Want proof ?, well it seems that with the morning tide came some fish. yes real honest a’ gawd fish proverbially and quite literally hit the wall.. or at least the middle of the east from about bay 18 up through the forties on the high mackerel yes , real mackerel started too be caught in fairly decent numbers. Mark even got a few pictures posted even though im not sure why he was up because I swear john was working yesterday 😂😂

Now if mackerel aint your thing I suspect you havn’t been paying attention too the fishy news about failing stocks, increased quotas and dire warnings from the conservation fish stock counters. Thus mackerel on the wall mid April is either a damned good thing too see, especially when what I tend too call the spring run of mackerel hasn’t been seen on the marina for two years, and, if its not, well, let me put it like this.
The last 2 years past we have not seen a proper spring run of mackerel, nor the early squid, last year the spider crabs all but failed too reach us and sardine has been missing from shop shelves for over 18 months meaning for me there is something wrong going on with the fish stocks. I could dig deeper and list many more changes that may seem unconnected but food chains connect the world and if part of a chain fails the whole chain fails …., ya know, plankton gets eaten by little fish, med fish gets too eat little fish, little fish feed the mammals in the sea, they all get too make bigger fish happy and well fed. until we get too the whales, sharks, the cod we all love too eat and the big fish we all want too catch, fek with part of the food chain and ya suddenly realise something is missing and its that something that is missing people say “oh where are the COD” or the mackerel, or the pollack or the spiders and squid, it paints a start picture tbh.

Anyhoo enough of the gloom from me, yes there was a smallish spanking of mackerel on the east wall yesterday and too add too that I was told that there were also quite a few DAB caught along the wall as well. add too this a tick over (ok a slow one) of plaice, the usual for the time being of dogfish, hound pups, conger, bass pouting, flounder and other bits n bobs sorta shouts too me hello spring. I ddnt hear of any bream yesterday but by time I was onto the wall quite a few were leaving as the tide dropped.

Now I know the palace pier group had a match on the east yesterday but I have no info from that as everyone fishing with them had left by time I showed up, soooo, if anyone from the pier group are here reading, please let me know how it went, fb message or even a short email too the addy on the home page will reach me.

Chatted too quite a lot of anglers on the walls yesterday with plenty out enjoying the better conditions. The water state was defo better than Saturdays blast of wintery wind but still has some way too be clearing ready for the summer.

We did have one incident on the east wall that trully should not have happened and as I understand it some fekin eejit decided that when he hooked into a decent bass and lacked a drop net rather than shout for proper help he managed too borrow a 20ish gallon rubber bucket and jumped off the wall after the flippin fish.
Stupid, infact bloody foolish, the currents along the walls mean near always entering the water from the wall is life risking, means 99% of the time a lifeboat needs too be called out, the water is shock inducing cold and lives can quickly be lost. This time the dude was lucky and a nearby kayak came too assist prior too the life boat being called out too them for a needless rescue.. Trust me, the lifeboat has better things too do on a busy Sunday morning without having too muster too a needless and preventable emergency. Thankfully this idiot was pulled from the water and Im not going too comment further on his bit of stupidity.

On the west wall late afternoon numbers had thinned quite dramatically and it was slow going as the tide was closing on its lowest point so catch info was very sparse.
Over all yesterday things were much better, the catches were on the increase(not that saturday was that hard too out do.) I still lack decent catch info for the years first night session but if I get any other than the hound & dogs I will post it up.

I’m gonna whisper it quietly but things are seemingly looking up for this year, I may be wrong but, at the moment as I type there seems too be a feel that this year feels better than last years poor showing on the walls, cross ya fingers, ya never know I may be for a change calling it right 😉

And with that I’m gonna clear off and prepare for the vampires down at the GP’s thus, until the next one I will as usual , bid y’ll ADIEU
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