Seagull for lunch

I've not been fishing for a while (apart from few hours in Eastbourne whilst my wife was running a marathon - blank). So I set out today for a bit of exercise and to try out my new casting cannon on my Sandstorm. Lots of weed on the beach when I arrived, and nobody else there.



Didn't get on too well with the casting cannon which is strange as the one on my Penn beachcaster works really well. I suspect the problem is my timing, as the Sandstorm is much stiffer, I suspect my release previously was due to the force of the line on my finger rather than me actually timing the release. So a bit more practice required.

No sign of fish, apart from this



Highlight of the day was watching a peregrin falcon chase and catch a small gull. He caught it about 100m out to sea and dropped it on the beach about 50m from me but the gull managed to escape. A real coincidence was that when I was unpacking the car, a sparrow hawk swooped down my drive chasing a pidgeon - that got away too.