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Writer's pictureRobin Howard

Brighton Inshore Fishing - Catch report 19th July 2024




Finally a summers day. And with it, a summer work schedule. 3 sailings, all maxed out. Been a while and it does raise the anxiety levels rather. If you care about results, you know there is more often than not one sailing that will fare less well. Snag is with bass, you can really not tell very often at all, which one it is going to be. When one day it was all on the flood, the next the flood may well be the lean spell, and the ebb the main event, on the very same mark. Bass are extremely frustrating in their inability to stick to routines. And booking the slots an absolute lottery at the moment.



First sailing, and with me was Damien, Mark, Andrew, and all the way from Switzerland, Elias. Poor guy. I do like to quiz folk from foreign lands hard about their fishing in their homeland. Always looking for that something a little different. Turns out, fishing here is significantly better. As much as the swiss have pristine rivers and lakes, they also have a compulsive kill policy by law, with a green leaning government calling the shots. As such, lots of anglers, few fish.



Could not really go wrong with this sailing. Just seemed to work. Middle flood to top of the tide almost and it did tail off for the last 30 minutes as we lost the tide. But prior to that, we landed 24 mostly table plus sized bass, with a max kill. A very satisfying session.



2nd sailing, was a corporate entertainment event. Liam had bought his clients (I'm not quite sure what he does. Quite a good looking chap so it could be a male prostitute?) Tom, Gavin and Mike along. This one was more challenging, as the guys had not fished too much recently, and what we do is quite technical sometimes. But they nailed it. Just, the fish had pretty much vanished for this part of the ebb. 7 landed, happily four table plus, so a fish a piece for the guys.



3rd sailing, Clive, Tom (another one) David and Omar were with me. This one was quite lovely for weather, with breezes diminishing. But even more of a struggle for fish. I ran the full length of where I do what I do for just six bass landed, with three of those being table fish. Backup support from mackerel. And yet, other days the tail end of the ebb can be the one. Every day different.




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