AndyA
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After thoroughly enjoying my first attempt at sea fishing 3 or so weeks ago, I've since spent many evenings watching numerous lure and shore fishing video on YouTube. They make fishing look so easy! 
Today was the last day of my long weekend off, they come around every 4 weeks with my job. This morning after watching a couple of more fishing videos, I started getting itchy feet and decided to head off over to Sandsend to do some actual fishing . . .
It was just around low tide when I arrived at the car park, not a bad looking day at all and well worth a wander along the shoreline no matter what. Now, I'm a complete novice at this fishing lark and no doubt anyone watching would have soon worked that out for themselves. I spent around 2 1/2 hours going up and down the water's edge, trying various lures, losing one along the way too. Not a hint of a bite was had.

I walked back up to the car and poured myself a cup of coffee, had a bite to eat and pondered what to do next.
As I looked over to my right, I could see Whitby Pier in the distance ..... Now, I'm the quiet type, I'm very friendly, but I'm uncomfortable with busy places and crowds of people. So there I was, parked up by the Whale bones in Whitby, straining to see how many people were on the peir and if any of them were fishing. I eventually told myself f*** it, just give it a try!
As it turned out there were 3 guys fishing at the end of the pier (the one on the left) and they all had a couple of rods each, I rocked up with my measly 9' lure rod and began chucking lures and then the Mackerel feathers out.
Eventually, I caught this little tiddler on the feathers, I think it might be a Whiting, but I'm not sure? I saw ons of the 3 guys catch a little Whiting too, but that was about the sum of the afternoon. I packed up my gear just before 7pm and headed back home. I didn't blank, so that's something to be happy about




Today was the last day of my long weekend off, they come around every 4 weeks with my job. This morning after watching a couple of more fishing videos, I started getting itchy feet and decided to head off over to Sandsend to do some actual fishing . . .
It was just around low tide when I arrived at the car park, not a bad looking day at all and well worth a wander along the shoreline no matter what. Now, I'm a complete novice at this fishing lark and no doubt anyone watching would have soon worked that out for themselves. I spent around 2 1/2 hours going up and down the water's edge, trying various lures, losing one along the way too. Not a hint of a bite was had.

I walked back up to the car and poured myself a cup of coffee, had a bite to eat and pondered what to do next.
As I looked over to my right, I could see Whitby Pier in the distance ..... Now, I'm the quiet type, I'm very friendly, but I'm uncomfortable with busy places and crowds of people. So there I was, parked up by the Whale bones in Whitby, straining to see how many people were on the peir and if any of them were fishing. I eventually told myself f*** it, just give it a try!
As it turned out there were 3 guys fishing at the end of the pier (the one on the left) and they all had a couple of rods each, I rocked up with my measly 9' lure rod and began chucking lures and then the Mackerel feathers out.
Eventually, I caught this little tiddler on the feathers, I think it might be a Whiting, but I'm not sure? I saw ons of the 3 guys catch a little Whiting too, but that was about the sum of the afternoon. I packed up my gear just before 7pm and headed back home. I didn't blank, so that's something to be happy about



