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I arrived in Southend and parked up loaded my trolley
and was at my mark and 1st cast by 18.30.
The weather was great, it was a lovely evening with a
slight breeze, big Sun and apart from the constant
shouting by 2 of the girls working on a ride just
behind me, not to mention what sounded like 12,000
screaming kids on my shoulder, it was lovely,
quiet and peaceful :
I sent a text to Tony (Wkdice) to let him know I was
fishing got the reply I nip down later to see how
it's going.
Kit:-
I was using my 32 year old mk2 Daiwa Supercast rods
paired with a couple of ABU 6501 blue C4 reels, 60Lb
Braid shock and 18Lb Ultima Distance, I had replaced
the shrink wrap on the butts and changed from a zip
sliders I had fitted some years back to screw winch
reel seats moving them up the butt 8 inches, this was
the 1st time I had used them since then and was well
pleased with the result.
I had bought a few bits in the WSF tackle shop sale
including a some Tronix rigs, (3 hook flappers),
I didn't like the look of them, snood and body length,
so I put Tronix rig on 1 rod and my own on the other
just to compare the 2.
Only had frozen bait, Black Lug, Squid, Sand Eel and
a few Hermits.
I fished at varying distances but the bait was
coming back untouched every time, not a bite.
Tony arrived about 20.30, laughed at my bait and went
to his car, he came back with a bucket containing live
Lug Worm, Rag Worm and some peelers, I aint going till
you catch he said, so after rebaiting with rag, Lug and
peeler I casts out both rods and withing 10 mins I had
landed my 1st fish of the session at around 21.00, just
after high water.
Coinsurance maybe or maybe not either way gota say thanks
to Tony for dropping off some great unexpected bait which
worked very well plus we had a nice chat which we could
do by this time as Peter Pan's had closed
Anyway, the fish switched on from around 21.00 till
22.45, I was had 3 trebles, 8 doubles and 12 singles by the
time I packed up at 23.00, all Whiting from 5 to 8 inches,
I had to carefully remove a hook through this gill on the
last 1 which swam off like a shot.
It had been about 6 years since I had fished that mark
which I used to fish on a regular basis with good results
so I will definitely be down there again soon, hopefully
I will find a few School Bass next time too,
Tight Lines All,
Snagger
Ps:- Pix are in the Shore Gallery.
Pps:- Tony, mate, please excuse the poetic licence, Lol
and was at my mark and 1st cast by 18.30.
The weather was great, it was a lovely evening with a
slight breeze, big Sun and apart from the constant
shouting by 2 of the girls working on a ride just
behind me, not to mention what sounded like 12,000
screaming kids on my shoulder, it was lovely,
quiet and peaceful :
I sent a text to Tony (Wkdice) to let him know I was
fishing got the reply I nip down later to see how
it's going.
Kit:-
I was using my 32 year old mk2 Daiwa Supercast rods
paired with a couple of ABU 6501 blue C4 reels, 60Lb
Braid shock and 18Lb Ultima Distance, I had replaced
the shrink wrap on the butts and changed from a zip
sliders I had fitted some years back to screw winch
reel seats moving them up the butt 8 inches, this was
the 1st time I had used them since then and was well
pleased with the result.
I had bought a few bits in the WSF tackle shop sale
including a some Tronix rigs, (3 hook flappers),
I didn't like the look of them, snood and body length,
so I put Tronix rig on 1 rod and my own on the other
just to compare the 2.
Only had frozen bait, Black Lug, Squid, Sand Eel and
a few Hermits.
I fished at varying distances but the bait was
coming back untouched every time, not a bite.
Tony arrived about 20.30, laughed at my bait and went
to his car, he came back with a bucket containing live
Lug Worm, Rag Worm and some peelers, I aint going till
you catch he said, so after rebaiting with rag, Lug and
peeler I casts out both rods and withing 10 mins I had
landed my 1st fish of the session at around 21.00, just
after high water.
Coinsurance maybe or maybe not either way gota say thanks
to Tony for dropping off some great unexpected bait which
worked very well plus we had a nice chat which we could
do by this time as Peter Pan's had closed
Anyway, the fish switched on from around 21.00 till
22.45, I was had 3 trebles, 8 doubles and 12 singles by the
time I packed up at 23.00, all Whiting from 5 to 8 inches,
I had to carefully remove a hook through this gill on the
last 1 which swam off like a shot.
It had been about 6 years since I had fished that mark
which I used to fish on a regular basis with good results
so I will definitely be down there again soon, hopefully
I will find a few School Bass next time too,
Tight Lines All,
Snagger
Ps:- Pix are in the Shore Gallery.
Pps:- Tony, mate, please excuse the poetic licence, Lol
