22nd June - Brighton Beaches

Once again, the grin says it all. Big bass are great therapy!!

Met Alan and headed off down to the Southwick beaches, for a little low water entertainment. ALways a prelude to the main event, a hunt for a corker on the rough stuff, the surf was just enough to put us in with a chance of a few fish, and get Alan in tune with the bass pulse. Worming was tough, espite lots of casts. Dont know if it is becuase I am out of practice, or maybe I have lost the pumping magic, but I managed a dozen worms to keep us fishing. Plenty of schoolies willingly obliged, and made it a fun couple of hours, but as the flooding tide forced us back up the shingle, it was time to move on to the main event.

We fished through the flooding tide, the odd knock and bump to keep it interesting. But I recall it was a couple of hours before Alan got the take we had been getting excited about all evening. A ripper of a fish, that fought superbly, but no match for Alans expertise on the rod. These Northerners get bought up on the likes of salmon, so they know all about powerful fish. It was, however, a fish that Alan was rightly proud of, as the photo shows. Just shy of 6lb I seem to recall. Alan works in a high stress environment in London Town. He is due to move down to the Sussex coast later in the year. I think he is going to feel very at home here, with bass therapy just down on the beach.......!!