Trying to find Ray

Another week passed by, it’s properly spring now, the first leaves on the beech hedge broke out earlier than ever before out and a few warm days followed, one of which saw me heading to the coast hoping for Rays again. High tide was due in mid afternoon and I made my plans to fish a popular beach that can fish well at all states of the tide. I arrived around 1400 to find a lot of people had the same idea as me, I should have known better. My antisocial self-took over, I returned to the car and made my way to another spot I knew would be quiet but if I’d stopped and thought about it for a minute, I’d have realised the state of the tide wasn’t so good here. Also, although I’ve done spectacularly well at this beach on a few occasions it’s always been later in the year, never this early. None of this had entered my head as I stood looking down at a fairly flat and inviting sea, there was barely a breath of wind and it did look good for a Ray. I fished one rod long and the other mostly…