Hill Head 18th November 2006

Steve the curry monster!My double hitter.

Birdsnest double hitter.

We fished Hill Head from 19.00 till 01.00 with high tide being at 21.50. There had been good south westerly winds during the week so we had hoped this would improve the fishing which it did. It was a very dark night with no moon as well, all of which suggested it would be a good session. Birdsnest caught the first fish of the night with a double hitter of whiting then our friend Steve caught another whiting, by this time I was starting to think that I may end up blanking again so the curries went on to warm us up. Birdsnest made a wicked prawn curry which Steve demolished in second's! I made a chicken balti and that was lovely too even if I do say so. Anyway got back to the fishing and soon I had my first which was a double hit of a small bass and a whiting. All in total we had about 12 fish between us all of which fell to ragworm.

Friday the 10th of November, Milford Shingle.

Me and Birdsnest Master took a couple of friends fishing with us this time and had it planned for a long time, H/W was at about 0200 and it was forcast as a dry night with a slight wind, how wrong that was. We arrived at around 1930 and got out of the van to a very strong wind, still we decided that it would be ok to fish and hoped that it might ease off during the night, instead by about 2130 it had started to rain and the wind was getting worse. We took Lug, squid, cuttle fish and mussels for bait but never managed to use to much of it as the weather was just to bad. I did manage to catch a small Bass at about a pound in weight but that was it. In the end we decided to call it a day before midnight and settled for a bacon roll and a cup of tea back at the van.

My collection of reel's

This is my set of reel's with the latest addition being a Penn 525 super mag.