ouchthathurt
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- Joined
- May 15, 2021
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- Location
- Hastings East Sussex
- Favourite Fishing
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Went to the beach with wifey, my two boys + 2 nieces and nephew and dog to enjoy the bank holiday sunshine, car showed 29c so it was scorchio! The kids wanted to catch some fish, so I took the rods with me. We headed to the mark where you meet to climb down a steep cliff, there was not a breath of wind, the sea was like a mill pond and I wasn’t confident. Still, I slung out a couple of clipped down rigs with lug and lounged on the beach. Someone then decided to come down and swim exactly where we were set up and picked up one of the rods. So we shifted along the beach a few hundred feet and slung them out again. Surprisingly, I had a rattle on one of the tips and could feel a weight on the way in, within feet of the shore I could see a bootlace eel, which promptly fell off... quick recast later and we were set. Wifey pointed to the left hand rod that was giving a little rattle, on reeling in there was a little flounder on the end! Blank saved and a nice little fish for the kids to get excited about. They waded in to watch it swim away.
