Brighton -you can keep your hat on

Packed carefully for a conference in Brighton;

Business suit,
cufflinks,
bow tie,
DJ.
three hook flapper....



Hopefully there'd be time for some R&R between drinks.


end of the pier show?


Brighton seemed to be full of places where it's OK to get your tackle out

Session One
I headed for the Marina's Western breakwater for a couple of hours



float fishing only rule just applies to the end


and you can't fish the inside



The Eastern breakwater is quieter but parking is more difficult,



Over Low the easier access Western arm wasn't too crowded






Fishing 2 rods costs a fiver.

Float fished a sabiki rig tipped with half inch bits of rag on the bass rod



and full rag hugged the sea bed at close to medium range on my new travel rod, a 7 section, 10 foot Geotrex spin
teamed with my latest reel, a Shakespeare from Foxons - comes complete with 4 spools, only
one is deep but loaded with a variety of lines I'm dressed for a range of light fishing.



Rain hats on for a bit of unexpected drizzle but a flat sea.

To my left a solitary slug came ashore for Graham over from Pembrokeshire
.

to my right a lot of noise but no fish.




The new kit blanked,

but dropped down the triangular cutaways the float returned a dozen scorpion including a triple header.

Session Two
Friday morning, a go over High to set me up for the long drive back to Rhyl battling with the pre-bank holiday traffic

Brighton Breezy, sun hats on, the wind had picked up and sloppy conditions over High raised hopes of bass and drenched the unwary.






This time the bass rod offered a 3 hook flapper, with a full monty of rag, 70 pence peelers ( from the "Famous Tacklebox" on West Quay)
and Asda mackerel'
-but blanked,

Meanwhile slivers of mack' spun on the sabiki rig kicked off the travel rod's career






Just enough mackerel showed for sport,
job done I headed for the shoals trying to keep their hats on queueing around the M25

http://www.brightonmarina-seafishing.co.uk/parking%20page.htm

http://www.vicfisher.co.uk/venues/brighton-marina/

Nice report there mate. It makes me a bit home sick as that was my local coast when I lived down south. As a matter of interest the big round stacks that the marina wall is rumoured to be hollow and is a farm for Lobster and crab. Some great bass fishing off of there, well there used to be. Don't know about now.

seajunky wrote:

Nice report there mate. It makes me a bit home sick as that was my local coast when I lived down south. As a matter of interest the big round stacks that the marina wall is rumoured to be hollow and is a farm for Lobster and crab. Some great bass fishing off of there, well there used to be. Don't know about now.

interesting lobster info there,
plenty of algae about!

Great report I used to fish there on a regular basis some good fishing if you know where to go . Huge Bass mark at the end on free-lined joeys.

Did you use the anchord slider riggs Mick?

seajunky wrote:

Did you use the anchord slider riggs Mick?

No Steve I used a jif lemon 15 ft tract weighted and let it go with the tide around the deep gulley past the old toilets. Mackerel head and guts at dusk or dawn.Those were te days.

This forum has been fully justified with that report Paul.

One word,
Fantastic!