ouchthathurt
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Yesterday I had to go to the tackle shop to pick up some new coasters for my rods, while I was there, it would have been rude if I didn’t get some bait too… unfortunately the fresh lug order wasn’t quite met by the diggers as they had been having a difficult time of it, so I got 3 wraps of frozen blacks to fill my hooks. The alarm was set for 0445hrs and I was on the beach for 0600hrs. The new coasters were quickly fitted and the Diawa 7HT multis were bolted securely to the Leeda Icon elite match rods. Both rods were rigged with 2 hook clipped down rigs baited with frozen lugworm and I waded out into the flat millpond like sea, and whacked both rods out as far as I could chuck them. Low tide was scheduled for 0630hrs to I would catch the last half hour of the ebb and the first few hours of the flood. Due to the lack of surf and flow, 4oz leads were ample to hold bottom. It was still dark but the sun was beginning to peak through the clouds. 
Both tips were sitting nicely in the tide, but the wind coming off the land had a real bite to it which meant I needed my extra jumpers and wind proof jacket to keep warm, including my old army issued artic furry hat! It almost felt like I should have been cod fishing in January! The bites started almost immediately, with rattles to both tips. I seemed to have found a shoal of whiting.
after a couple of casts and double shots of these lil blighters, the bites stopped as quickly as they started. With the sun now up, the shoals had disappeared back into deeper water out of range, so I took that as a sign it was time to head home. 
I think that next session, I need to head a mile or two down the shore towards winchelsea where there is deeper water closer in, but will the mark produce another decent bass or have they too, taken the chill and calm conditions as a sign to vacate? Surf, swell and time will tell!
Both tips were sitting nicely in the tide, but the wind coming off the land had a real bite to it which meant I needed my extra jumpers and wind proof jacket to keep warm, including my old army issued artic furry hat! It almost felt like I should have been cod fishing in January! The bites started almost immediately, with rattles to both tips. I seemed to have found a shoal of whiting.after a couple of casts and double shots of these lil blighters, the bites stopped as quickly as they started. With the sun now up, the shoals had disappeared back into deeper water out of range, so I took that as a sign it was time to head home. I think that next session, I need to head a mile or two down the shore towards winchelsea where there is deeper water closer in, but will the mark produce another decent bass or have they too, taken the chill and calm conditions as a sign to vacate? Surf, swell and time will tell!
