Beginners luck..

It had to happen. I said to uncle John I'd take him after work tonight for a couple of hours. I'm knackered but I can't say no to a splodge. I had thought I'd just go and "coach" in my limited way, but then thought I might as well take a rod and have a sling.

We only went down to Bacton and following the lovely warm day the wind had gone round northerly, the sea had scruffied up and I really didn't fancy it. We'd been fishing for about an hour when I said to John, "it'll be hard tonight mate, the main event will be Saturday". No sooner had I finished when his old glass intrepid rod bucked forward and kept going, a few minutes later a pristine bass was safely beached. How do you top that? First proper sea fish IS a proper sea fish!

Cracking fish! I didn't realise I'd gone fishing with a smurf.

There I was £300+ of rod and reel and I'd been slaughtered by an old glass intrepid and a "riptide" reel, thankfully as I was rebaiting John's rig I noticed my rod straighen up and a schoolie soon followed John's proper one to save my shame.

A horrible night to be out so we only stuck it for a couple of hours, Saturdays forecast is better and I'm going to try hard and put him back in his place! I weighed the fish at home and it went an ounce under 4lb, bloody beginners.