Halesworth lake (Wissett)

A friend of mine has spent the day at Halesworth lakes and had two carp from the smallest lake on flouro pop ups, one 5lb and the other 11lb. I am 300 miles away in Wales but I was there in spirit!

Wye

The Wye in Hay-On-Wye looks interesting, a lot of flow and debris.

Dead baiting at the Ocean Pit.

I am hoping to have a session dead baiting at the Ocean Pit Weybread in Suffolk in a about a weeks time. Got some good pike traces in a shop in Ross-On-Wye, the guy in there was very helpful and was suggesting I have a go after some barbel on the local stretch of the Wye. Will post everything on here!

Below is a picture of the shop location in Ross-On-Wye and two pictures of the Ocean Pit.

Flounders at Dunwich!

I fished Dunwich beach on Saturday 11th February with some friends. I am not an experienced beach fisherman and have no gear of my own so I borrowed my brothers Browning beach rod and Grandfathers Mitchell reel as well as other gear.

Dunwich has sandbanks and gullies running parallel to the beach. I used a standard two hook rig which allowed for both baits to be fished close to/on the bottom. I knew there was a sandbank in front of me because of the breaking waves at low tide, I decided to fish around this feature.

There was a small swell in the water but the sea state was fairly calm, the water was not overly muddy. As the tide pushed in for an hour I had a flounder of 25cm, this was caught on the far side of the sand bank so I decided to cast to that spot again. This yielded a good result in the form of a 30cm flounder. We were expecting dabs so the flounder were a pleasant surprise.

I enjoyed the day and think I may invest in some beach fishing gear now it has kindled my interest!