Portishead

With the promise of a good evening weather wise, Judith and me decided to go for a  bit of goby bashing in the marina, we did it a few times last year and it's a nice way of spending an evening, so armed with lrf rods and 3 quids worth of ragworm we found ourselves stood on the quay side, although we have caught on plastics, mainly small pieces of small isome worm, small pieces of fresh rag seem to out fish it down here, rig wise we tend to use a single hook paternoster with a fine wire size 10 hook, with a cylindrical dropshot weight on the end, we have found this type of weight doesn't snag up as much as conventional leads, also the fine wire hooks can be pulled out and bent back into shape to carry on.
It didn't take long to start getting bumps and plucks from these small fish, but as I've said before they can be a bugger to hook, Judith drew first blood with a common goby, they may be small but they are certainly no push over, ask Craig Edmunds who came down and had a go last year and probably missed 20 bites before he had one, they certainly can't be mugged, LOL.

It was more difficult than last year due mainly to the cold spring we have just come out of, but we had enough bites to keep us entertained, also being a busy place you are never short of someone to talk to, with lots of people of varying  ages  and nationalities all interested in what you are doing.
The only annoying thing is the strange people who think it is ok to speak on there mobile phones on loud speak, so everyone is party to there conversation, why dont they just move the phone the extra 6 inches and hold it to there ear and use it correctly, and I don't have to listen to there inane waffling, then there are the ones who insist on playing some rubbish music loudly from there phone so we can all (endure) enjoy it with them , rant done.
Any way as far as the fishing went , as I said it did get harder as the light started to go, then I had a surprise in the shape of a codling, I know they do get a few in there but I never expected that, and it gave a good account of itself on the light HTO rod.

And shortly after that I had a couple of decent flounders, and as you can tell Judith wasn't taking it to well  , she can be a bad loser , but probably not as bad as me lol.

The second one still had a lot of colour on its underside, whereas the first one was pure white .
Judith did redeem herself slightly right at the end with a nice little goldsinny wrasse, so that did cheer her up a bit, but not as much as the  maccy d burger and flat white coffee on the way home, so a good evening in good company and a few fish to boot, what more do you need, certainly much better and most definitely  more interesting than watching tv or trawling the internet,
Pop into veals for a chat , it's not an expensive branch of the sport to get into, but it can be addictive, be warned.