Hayling Island Sunday 24/10/10

[maghouse]

Lay in bed or go fishing - easy .... set off at 0600 for a dawn raid on some Bass ... tempted to hit Eastney but all those lycra clad people running about meant Southsea was closed for the day ... so Hayling it was ...

Fished 0700 (on the water) till 1200 (off the water) - lovely calm day, northerly winds flattened the sea off ... together with a dose of Stugeron15 - no ground baiting today

Bloody cold though - air temp was 4c - glad I put the drysuit on ...

Paddled out to the end of the winner - one rod on the bottom with plain rag and the other for lures & plugs ...

Started pulling in a Bass a chuck on the rag - decent size as well considering - all about 2/3lbs - zilch on the lures ... tried all sorts but not a touch ... rag was catching every time - had about a dozen decent bass including one for my tea ;D

Lesson learnt - dont let a deep diver dangle in the water when casting - it wants to dive as you want to cast - result snap and one diver in Davy Jones locker

Great mornings fishing - even managed a moving exit on landing and straight onto the beach - looked rather cool if I must say - impressed all the anglers on the beach "it was nothing" no way was I gonna dunk in the surf


Dawn ...



Rather chilly ...



Bliss ...



Here they come ...







But I dont want to be your dinner ...



Arty shots ...

[fishbeach]

nice photo shoot

[Purple]

Great report and pics - loads of fish porn - and a class dismount at the end ........ sounds like a good day out to me

[richi]

Nice one Maghouse,I hope you remember the classy dismount the next time you get turfed out in the surf ;D I got turfed out twice in one day the other week ;D

Great pics

I agree it was bl--dy cold,I was out by the Needles,had to put gloves on for the first time this year