Sometimes you have to hold your hands up and say yep, I fished like a tit!

With yesterday being one of those sessions! The first bit of bounce on the coastline for a while and I was due at the surgery for some blood tests and so on, bang on high water when I wanted to be out fishing for the early ebb tide. Then about an hour into the ebb a WhatsApp comes in with some photos of local fishing being caught right now. I am pretty sure my blood pressure and heart rate measurements were a bit off yesterday because I was feeling anxious about wanting to be out fishing exactly when they were testing me, but I managed to get through the medical stuff and be out on the coast about two hours into the ebb…………….

And in hindsight I chose the wrong spot. For some reason it’s been a long time since I fished my local coastline on a true westerly wind, and with how it was banging in yesterday you were having to deal with a vicious sidewind. I factor in as much as I think I know when I head out fishing, but I didn’t even think of the sidewind factor yesterday, and with where I chose to be a fair bit into the ebb, I hadn’t factored in how difficult it would be to control the braid peeling off the reel around all the rock/stacks which are sticking out of the water. I struggled to present a lure properly and I got frustrated. I am entirely sure I was fishing like a tit.

I stuck at it because I didn’t have long, but I was very aware that I wasn’t covering the water very well and I had chosen a location where I needed to get my lure right out into the waves. What I should have gone for is a location where I could have fished in nice and tight to help negate the vicious sidewind, and to be fair to me I’d have had a few more options if I hadn’t lost that high water and early ebb time with the surgery appointment. I have to be sensible though and do what the medical people tell me to do, and when an appointment is booked I obviously need to go along. As is bloody typical though the coast has gone pretty flat around here this morning so I am going to be a good boy and get on with my work…………….