Folkestone

Folkestone Warren 4th Sept.1998

Arrived down the Warren to start fishing around 6am .... High water was at 10.15am with a 6.2M tide. The winds were calm, but slowly increasing to SW force 3.

As the tide was still some way out, I decided to walk the length of the lower Apron, flicking out a J9 as I did so...... got nothing but weed ... lots of weed, with big clumps of shredded Laminaria. Walked under the second high apron, and decided to fish from one of the small buttresses at the far end..... again no joy... just weed..... until around 6.50am, when a flash of silver came rushing up towards me, just as I was lifting the lure..... but no sooner had it risen, than the fish flicked it's tail, and melted into the murky depths.....

By 7.15am I moved to fish on the slip way, so that I could fish over the small weed coved boulders and sand, as the tide steadily advanced ........ again no takers.... :-(

I tried a couple of times to fish under the NagsHead, but the cross wind and weed made life too difficult ......

Went down to the Buttresses between the first high apron and the low apron, around 9am or so ....... guess what ..... more weed, although much less than up on the second high apron .... met Geff as I was packing up ... he'd got a jointed plug and spinning reel ... I wished him well, and advised against going to the NagsHead, which was now being splashed badly by the increasing swell of the waves, not to mention the cross wind / weed ........

There were a number of young lads trying their luck, feathering for mackerel, along with an older chap fishing the far end of the apron ...... but again no-one was having any joy.....

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