Sometimes you have to give in

During the hot spell I went to Whitehaven Pier with some freshly dug Lugworm for what ever was on the bottom a nice Plaice or Bass well after 2 casts nothing yet the mackerel where in and I had to bite the bullet and chuck the feathers out and I'm glad I did in all had 20 mackerel in the end with the small ones going back without being touched I kept the rest for tea and bait. I'm on the lookout for a cheap bait freezer.

What a day

This is from 2 weeks ago.  Having just sold my old phone, I bought 2 Shakespeare Salt FDX reels And looked forward to fishing Maryport Pier the next day. Typical after some lovely weather when I decide  to go it changes for the worse. Got up at 4:30am as high tide was around 9:30am, turned up at the pier and forgot my bait great start went home and picked it up. I managed to get going and decided to try out one of my new reels well I only put my rod tip and bag down for 1 second and bang a gust of wind had sent my rod bag and tip into the Solway, thankfully the tide was on the way in so it didn't drift away from the pier, I managed to hook up the bag and retrieve my rod. Then through my own fault I overfilled the reels and it took me 30mins to sought out the line including losing a rig and shockleader. And almost losing my keys. 
 But the fishing was not to bad all small fish but at least I had fun.  

2012 walks and fishes

With the weather being unsettled and by reports not missing much. I've started walking again and found some nice routes around here and have worked out I walk about 3-4 mph depending on terrain I'm what you call a floater walker as I don't pre plan much of my walks, just start then see where the walk takes me. Did have a little go earlier on this year and had a small whiting. Then this weekend it's all back on track well sought off on Saturday I bought to new beach-caster rods for well a steal really both brand new hardly been touched. Then on Sunday had a fishing comp more a social thing really. The weather was perfect for most apart from the Fishing it was flat calm. I blanked but enjoyed meeting new people, who I met on a Facebook fishing group. Roll on the weekend I have a Fly fishing lesson on Saturday then am off sea fishing Sunday.