Kine262
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The stars and the tides aligned nicely on Saturday so I decided to break off the Covid blues and travel down to meet my son for the first beach trip this year. He lives in Bristol so the channel is convenient for him, if not me. He has fished at various local venues but Kingston Seymour was the choice for my first trip.
High tide was not until 6pm so I didn’t have to set off towards Bristol too earlier, but as I hadn’t seen the lad (even though he is now six foot plus and build like a brick outhouse he will always be ‘the lad’ to me) and his girlfriend for a good while I decided to set off on the journey about 10.30am. It’s a good job I did, as the normally just under two hour trip took well over four, after a three lorry smash on the M5 in the early hours of Saturday closed the motorway in both directions for the whole day. It turned out to be a fatal accident so a delayed journey suddenly takes on less significance.
A quick stop was made at Reel Fun Fishing to collect bait and a few bits before a hurried walk up the gravel lane to the sea front showed the tide was still out far enough to not panic, although it does speed in over the mud flats when it gets closer. There were two other anglers about 200 metres away from the spot we picked. I had lots of little channels in front of me and my son went to my right, where he had the start of the large rocks creating a feature to his right. I fished a pulley rig with a squid/worm cocktail at distance and a three hook flapper with lug and rag closer in.
Setting up
The two early arrivals!
Unfortunately, apart from one rattle just after high which came to nothing, I remained fishless. My son had one bite but whatever it was came off when it was two thirds of the way in.
I didn’t see the two lads down from us catch anything either, but more annoyingly, two guys turned up just before high tide, with telescopic rods and one ounce leads and started casting out five feet from the edge and one of them then caught a silver eel. Having said that, I think I’d rather blank than catch small eels!
The two late arrivals with telescopic rods (and a fish!)
Time to pack up!
But still a lovely day!!!
So, two blanks but it was just lovely to be next to the sea again! Thankfully the motorway north had opened up by the time I set off back home and two hours later I was back, the tackle was safely stored away and I was sitting drinking tea and enjoying cheese on toast!
High tide was not until 6pm so I didn’t have to set off towards Bristol too earlier, but as I hadn’t seen the lad (even though he is now six foot plus and build like a brick outhouse he will always be ‘the lad’ to me) and his girlfriend for a good while I decided to set off on the journey about 10.30am. It’s a good job I did, as the normally just under two hour trip took well over four, after a three lorry smash on the M5 in the early hours of Saturday closed the motorway in both directions for the whole day. It turned out to be a fatal accident so a delayed journey suddenly takes on less significance.
A quick stop was made at Reel Fun Fishing to collect bait and a few bits before a hurried walk up the gravel lane to the sea front showed the tide was still out far enough to not panic, although it does speed in over the mud flats when it gets closer. There were two other anglers about 200 metres away from the spot we picked. I had lots of little channels in front of me and my son went to my right, where he had the start of the large rocks creating a feature to his right. I fished a pulley rig with a squid/worm cocktail at distance and a three hook flapper with lug and rag closer in.
Setting up
The two early arrivals!
Unfortunately, apart from one rattle just after high which came to nothing, I remained fishless. My son had one bite but whatever it was came off when it was two thirds of the way in.
I didn’t see the two lads down from us catch anything either, but more annoyingly, two guys turned up just before high tide, with telescopic rods and one ounce leads and started casting out five feet from the edge and one of them then caught a silver eel. Having said that, I think I’d rather blank than catch small eels!
The two late arrivals with telescopic rods (and a fish!)
Time to pack up!
But still a lovely day!!!
So, two blanks but it was just lovely to be next to the sea again! Thankfully the motorway north had opened up by the time I set off back home and two hours later I was back, the tackle was safely stored away and I was sitting drinking tea and enjoying cheese on toast!
