Folkestone

Folkestone Pier 13th Dec.1998

With a forecast of W force 7/8 there was no chance of Dover Breakwater .... talked to Clive in Bills Bait and Tackle about the previous days dismal fishing at the Ad.Pier, and decided to go and fish Folkestone Pier just for the morning and grabbed my lug and rag for the day... picked-up the maddies that I'd ordered from Channel Angling on the way....

Set up around 7.50am: one chap had just dropped a codling before I'd arrived ... decided to try my luck on the very end.... bad move as I was to find out later .. most of the action the previous week had been from the elbow.....

Decided to try the wishbones 2/0 with lug or lug/rag, and have a Christmas tree baited with maddies down the wall for a coalfish... wind seemed quite light .. 3/4... very few white horses....

8.20am .... snagged, and lost the tackle...

8.30am ..... one small velvet crab on the Christmas tree....

9.00am .. another snag, and another lost set of tackle....

9.35am: decent bite and a 12" pouting at 1lb.....

10.30am: snagged .... lost another set of tackle ...... replaced by a pennell...

Pier marshal came around and I handed over my 2 quid...

10.40am: 7" pouting on the pennell...

11.20am: 11" pouting.. on the pennell ....

11.45am: had enough and decided to go home and do some work...... gave what few worms I had left to the chap next to me (whom I'd spoken to before on the Breakwater) .... saw two codling that had been landed earlier that morning ... largest was around 6lb or so ........

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