Frustrating session..

I was looking forward to fishing last night. I'd made arrangements with Pete, Genocide and PK to have a go down one of my local beaches. Conditions looked good for a few smoothounds and I had a real sense that something would happen. It didn't.

PK just cast for a bit, he'd been on nights the last two nights and left us after fish and chips around 2200 and we started fishing in earnest around then. First chuck I had a weaver, a big one too around 6oz the very next bung and I have a smut pup not half a pound. I feel very confident now that we are going to get some proper smuts on the ebb, we didn't.

In fact it was worse than very poor. They were the only two fish I had, Karl blanked though Pete managed 3 sizeable codling at close range. When I say sizeable they were on the measure but they were all returned, I guess the biggest would've been around 1lb. Codling often turn up on our beaches in the summer, particularly after a blow. Weed was a nuisance rather than a showstopper and dropped when the tide did an hour into the ebb. I lost some kit on an ebb snag (not there on the flood) and Karl lost some bits too. Smuts can be a bit of an enigma, conditions were right but the beach wasn't, be interesting to see if they were caught anywhere else in Norfolk last night.