Folkestone

Folkestone Warren 11th Aug.1998

Drove down to the Warren for 5am ...... the winds were force 2/3 or less from the NE, with low tide at 9.30am.

Started fishing off the first apron using a J13 (blue/white), as the water depth was sufficient to use a plug... the water was a little murky, and had a lot of floating weed, making life difficult, and I had to remove weed almost every cast ....... no takes... :-(

By about 6am the tide had dropped and I switched to plan B. Knowing that the draft would be too low to use a plug at low water, I had decided to use a bubble float, and Redgill set-up...... This I employed along the length of the rock strewn stretch of the low apron .... again no joy ...... not even the slightest indication of any fish.......

Just after 7am, I walked under the second high apron, and started fishing the slipway beach area .... as the tide retreated I was able to walk out to, and stand on the table top boulders of Gault Clay (at the low water mark)....

Around 7.45am or so, I saw my first fish..... a couple of mackerel jumping clear out of the water, going across me towards the west. Unfortunately they were well beyond the range of my bubble float/redgill set-up ....... thinking that they may be pursued by bass, I rapidly changed over to a Krillet, which would give me greater distance, but had a high risk of getting snagged...... well I avoided getting snagged, but the fish in turn avoided my lure... :-( Again fifteen minutes later, I saw another mackerel jump out the water, some distance in front of me going in the opposite direction to those seen earlier .... but still no contact. I could see two pairs of Cormorants, some distance further still, bobbing up and down, and diving for fish ... all very frustrating..... Tried using one of the small plugs, but it just hit bottom, and/or became covered in weed!!!!! Went back to the bubble float and red-gill, with no success.

Started walking back towards the caravan site around 9.30am, flicking the red gill out every so often, more in hope, than with any real chance of a bite.......

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