Folkestone

Folkestone Rotunda Beach 25th May 1998

Arrived slightly later than I intended around 5.45am or so....... the wind was light, the sky overcast, and Low Water around 6am or so.  Went to the base of the pier ... looks like the work that they were carrying out at the end of last summer, was to repair the low wall/jetty, not as I feared to remove it. The shingle has been built up, and is now very steep, and the repaired section cannot be climbed from the seaward side, so their is a real danger of being cut off with the advancing tide in the corner. As the sea covers this section great care is needed..... !!!!!!!

Used a variety of Rapalas and toby's ....... but not until around 8.15am or so did anything happen. By then I had been forced away from the pier with the advancing tide, and fished on the old stone jetty. I saw white bait jumping out the water, and five minutes later my rod went down... and up came a mackerel on my silver and orange Toby ..... one for the pot .... tried using the toby, along with the plugs, but to no avail ... I was also hampered by the fact, that two chaps decided to fish from the pier ...having seen me catch the mackerel, they moved from the elbow where they where fishing, to right between me and the main casting direction towards the pier.... saw a bass break surface about 20 minutes later, but by 9.30am the tide was too high to fish properly, and I decided to cut my losses and leave them to it, with their ground rigs and floats.

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