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Well , along with my new 72 year old novice sea angling buddy we headed west yesterday . A brief recce of one suggested mark, Hakin Point , which looks worth another a visit but as there is a warning sign displayed saying it is liable to flooding at HW on spring tides and yesterday fitted the bill ;13.2 mtrs on the Llanelli scale ,that's huge , I decided to fish from the Mackerel Quay area. Managed to set up very close to the car at my desired point . Plenty of room for two anglers and four rods between us. First hour was spent doing some casting practice and how to bait up using  a whole range of fishy baits and frozen blacks . All four rods were cast out and as it got dark and the tide rose expectations were high. Not to much trouble with weed and our 4oz pyramid leads were holding well , which surprised me as I was expecting to having to use grip leads in the big tide. For a couple of hours the only thing interested in our baits were the bloody crabs  My buddy also learnt that he needs to check his knots better as he lost a couple of hooks and knot failure was indicated by the twirly bit of nylon on the end of his snood. We used the waiting time to prepare our baited traces so no fishing time was wasted. My buddy was using my bass rod , as his second rod , but he'd left his spare tip light at home , however the bite indicated by a surprise decent sized grey gurnard didn't need a light to see it. This proved to be the only fish of the session. However a decent session with lots learnt and put into practice it certainly wasn't a wasted trip.

Covid permitting we'll be heading west again hopefully when it gets a bit colder and pesky bait robbing crabs have buggered off.