Bacton Blank.

I've finished work now for a while and me and Mrs Aitch had arranged to go out with friends for something to eat, a few pints and watch a band. Unfortunately Mrs Aitch has been quite poorly so we never got out, it did though give me a chance to take the old man down to Bacton to waste a couple of hours.

We got set up around 1900, there was already a couple of guys on the beach by the slip fishing worm, they'd had a couple of flounders and an eel. We'd just be fishing crab and hoping for a smut. Nice conditions, westerly wind and clearish water, and I reckon we had a chance on the ebb.

There was a bit of tide and with it some weed. I couldn't fish as far out as I wanted because of the weed, but found if I dropped it just past the groin ends it was clear. That was the case until an hour into the ebb where I found the tide and weed had eased and I could bang one out where I'd liked to have fished the full session. The smuts me and Smudge had at Trimingham were well out and I figured if there were any here they'd be out just the same. My old man's rod had been fished off the groin ends for the entire session and neither of us had a bite, so it didn't seem to matter if you were in or out.

We packed up and were home just as it got dark, I think the fish are still around I just chose the wrong beach on the right tide, still nice to get a quickie in before I go on holiday. I won't fish now until Southwold sole do on the 28th, which reminds me, I need to sort some bait for that.

A cracking evening at Bacton, nice to spend a couple of hours with the old fella.