Dodgy June

Everything looked good for a trip to the shallow beach, an off shore breeze and a late evening high tide and as I hadn’t been there for a while, I couldn’t resist. My target fish tonight would be Rays, for some reason I don’t catch many Hounds here but I always hope. Whilst setting up I noticed someone in a gin palace had got it wrong on the way into the estuary, they were stuck on a sand bar for hours. I didn’t notice them leave, just looked over and saw the boat had gone but by then it was almost dark.I had a proper bite on my first cast and had a hell of a job hauling the fish back towards me, obviously a Ray but a much smaller fish than I expected appeared in the edge. I hoped for more Rays but had a quiet couple of hours before the Dogfish started banging the rod tip. I had three in no time then it went quiet and after a couple of retrieves brought back untouched baits I called it a night. On a Saturday evening I had just enough time for my first trip on a river since the season…