FISH

Conditions	A warm, breezy night. Sea state was quite rough.
Tide	21:00 high water - 07:00 low water Medium tide 6.9 m-0.4 m Sun rise 06:41 - Sun set 20:04
Bait	Feathers, Frozen mackerel from last week and commercial bait sand eels.
Tackle	Two rods, an old Daiwa Moonraker with an Abu 6000c (30 years old) and an Abu Atlantic with a Abu 6000. Main reel line 15 lb with a 30 lb shock leader. Single 2/0 & 4/0 blue hooks on a short 8 & 12 inch trace (two rods!).The trace was 3 feet above the gripper weights (4.5 oz and 6 oz). A 12ft carbon carp rod for spinning
Species
Lesser Spotted Dogfish	Big beasts hitting like trains and a tuggy big drag. They came in waves, all female, from 11-27 inches. All returned with minimum damage to fight another day. Some even ran.
Greater Spotted Dogfish	Bigger beasts which had a gentle tug but put up a good fight with the tide.
Mackerel	A couple taken at low tide, 14 at high tide. For those who like to eat fresh fish, this is what it is all about (photo, one is a bait fish - yes) (Feathers)
Bass	At low tide the bass pinned the sand eels to the waters edge and murdered them.(photo) (Feathers)
Pollack	Just a tiddler.(Feathers)
Sand eel	This was weird, as I dragged in my weight one got pinned between the lead and the gripper.