Folkestone

Folkestone Rotunda Beach 12th June 1998

Arrived at Folkestone around 2pm, and walked across the shingle to the base of the pier. The tide was just on the ebb, as high tide had just passed at around 12.30pm or so.... The weather was cloudy with some sunshine / scattered showers, and a force 3 wind from the North.

Decided to try out the Berkley Fireline, having read a number of articles about it from Americans who had used it for lure fishing...... whilst I was setting up, a young chap came over and asked what I was fishing for, and where to buy tackle etc.... Put a 20g Krillette on the end of the Fireline, and cast out...... the Fireline was quite stiff, and managed to twist into a loop, that subsequently knotted, during the cast, as the line hit the rings ........ had to cut the line... pull the lure in by hand, and start again .... because of the stiffness of the Fireline, it really didn't want to settle down onto the spool, and the repeated problem, of thrown loops, twists and subsequent knotting plagued me for the rest of the trip.. even when I had only a 2/3 loading on the spool... very frustrating, esp. as there seemed to be no pattern to the problem ...... I shall strip the Fireline out, and replace it with 20lb Dynabraid.. and see if it's better at abrasion than the 16lb that I've been using, which was my original reason for trying the Fireline.... bit of an expensive mistake at 30 quid for 300yrd of the stuff.

I used a variety of lures, such as the Rapalas J13 /J9's etc., krillettes, weighted redgills, redgill behind bubble float, toby's etc.... really a play day .... the fetch of the waves was too long to really work the lures... ie. I was forced to fish and cast, halfway up the beach or run the risk of being swept away!!!!!!! The wind changed direction, so that it was now blowing across me, from the SW at force 4 or more ...... decided I'd had enough and left at about 6pm, rather than stay until dusk as I had originally planed...... one of those "I'VE BLANKED DAYS"!!!!!!!

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