So, Strange the thoughts that pop into your head as you are about to type up something, that or its just me n my warped sense of humour. Best I could come up with to start things off was a bit of old graffiti scrawled on a toilet wall many years ago that forever stuck in my head, and thus the line went…
… So, here I sit lonely hearted
Paid a penny and only farted”
Nope, no Idea where the thought came from, no doubt it will vanish after ear worming me for a couple of days, anyhoooo whats been going on ?

Thurs & Fri I didn’t visit the wall, guests dropped in & heavy rain followed so thought better of it & Fri I was up in Haywards Heath for a pre op assessment & now have a date for my gall bladder to be removed (thank fk!)
Thursday there were a few mackerel about along with almost the now usual Bass & eels, beyond that the only other that I can for sure confirm was that the Bream are now a fairly consistent take on the wall and can be expected on most bays as they do seem to be ranging from top to bottom including the sandy bays.
Friday it seems started off with a few mackerel but the evening tide was much more giving with a decent amount of mackerel for all as the day on the east came to a close.

Saturday I decided as there was a bit of a later high to take a light spin rod with me just in case I got the urge to have a dabble, like a donkey forgot to grab my bait out of the freezer before leaving the house but fortunately knew someone would be down there selling bait 😉
Anyoo, as I trundled up the wall I was greeted by many saying “no fish”. Now, bearing in mind that the days low tide had passed and the high wasn’t until 5.50pm and lthe last week in general having been quite a poor one for fish in general (something that many Sussex venues are struggling with atm)I was hardly surprised to hear that things were quiet. As I made my way up the wall towards bay 30 a couple of quite large and chunky mackerel were brought in so things were at least looking promising for the evening pre close at 9pm. Overall the day had been very quiet and most there were recent since lunchtime so no info of the morning session. There was a bass , a couple of mackies & bream on the higher bays but bar the 4-5 mackies Id seen mid wall there was little going on.

Inspite of the poor report I decided Id have a dabble and set myself up on bay 9 with some salted/oiled black and was straight into what appeared to be bream knocks but as I cast around the knocks sorta indicated to me that the bay would be hard work as there only seemed too be the one solitary biter down there when I was casting into nearby areas.
And thus I put there rod away had another roll along the wall and returned and set up on bay 5. far more bites all over the bay with the bait often being stripped of the lower hook at twice the rate of the other. At this point I should have swapped the hook sizes around but didnt, and paid for it as I got a double rattle and can only assume I had at least one wrasse on the hook and was promptly taken into a snag that wasn’t giving. Brain said bollocks and started jerking the rod up too free the snag, No no no nope, shoulda put the rod down and done it by hand (it was a 4 piece spin of a few years old) but nope dumb arse me continued to jerk the rod to free the snag and… crack, up snapped one of my fav light rods 2/3rds up. retrieved the line by hand as that was still intact thus getting the rot top back as well as the rig & weight… minus the 2 hooks of which the line had clearly frayed/split over the rougher ground so best I can guess was that I was into probably a wrasse on the upper and something like a blenny that had dragged both hooks into some sort of mini crevasse as they are want too do.
Ho hum that cut short my dabble for the day which was v annoying being as there were some v decent bites going on down there. As to the rod, well while pissed it snapped I do have the gear to repair it properly so it shouldn’t be too long out of use.

I left prior to things settling into the evening but yes it did look fishy and hopeful I can catch up with Ali today to see how things went.
I will be down on the wall later, I may even take another rod to erm not break & so if you are down there please say hi/hello as did one reader yesterday who shouted out as his family came onto the wall catching me totally off guard until he pointed out Id posted a “say hi” the other day on the blog 🙂

And that as they say is all folks, & so, until the next one I will again bid you all ADIEU
F