
Sunday dawned bright and clear and although I’d been out the night before and lost an hours sleep due to the clocks going forward I arrived at the chosen venue, Fleetwood Channel, in plenty of time for the 2nd BLAS sea fishing match of the season.
Nine of us fished into the estuary channel of the River Wyre a couple of hours down to low water and a couple of hours back up again using predominantly peeler crab as bait with the odd try of Lug, Mackerel or Squid.
Once again I was first in with a fish, a plump little Flounder of 33 cms which went safely back then, as per last week, I had to wait ages for a second while people either side of me caught but eventually I did catch another Flounder of 31 cms which was a relief – I was starting to think that I was only being allocated one fish per match by the sea fishing gods.
A few other species were caught such as Codling (all undersized), a Plaice (again undersized) and a Long Spined Sea Scorpion (I think) of 20 cms. Almost everything was caught using Peeler Crab which seems to be the only bait of worth at the moment.

Great weather, good company and some fish – if there’s anything better I’m not sure I know what it is…
While chatting we did notice a bottle floating by and when it was washed up next to us we found it was a genuine message in a bottle, with a wax sealed cork. After struggling to get the paper out we found a note written by someone called John on 25/9/10 and thrown in the sea at Aberystwyth – which is an ‘up the coast’ journey of about 175 miles.
Not a genie in a bottle but still, a little bit different.
Next week proper beach fishing from Rossall – time to break out the long range stuff.
HI, RECENTLY RETIRED (EARLY) I WISH TO START FISHING, NOT FISHED FOR 50 YEARS, I HAVE ALL THE GEAR JUST WAITING FOR MY NERVES TO STOP, STOPPING ME, I DONT WANT TO LOOK A FOOL
Hes
Hi hes, where are you based? Perhaps I can give you a few hints about the area or at least point you to someone who can even if I can’t .
Hi
Very similar to Kevin’s comment and wondered about joining the Fleetwood club. Details please. Live at Thornton Cleveleys. TIA
Hi,
The best people to try are Blackpool and Layton Angling Society (BLAS), they can be reached here; http://www.blasonline.com and they have a forum here; http://www.blasforum.co.uk