The weather forecast giving SW 16-18 gusting 25-30 with heavy rain showers was not too promising but workable for inshore fishing. The mark I wanted to fish for skate was just two miles out into the channel but with the end of the flood tide still roughing up the water a change to closer inshore in the lee was made and we were soon into small codling dogfish and a bonus 3lb cod. The tide started to make on the ebb and with that the sea flattened off, so I up anchored and made the short hop to my preferred mark. Straight into a small Smoothound gave everyone confidence but it was not to be and after two hours i decided to go back to our original mark. Weed became a bit of a problem, we persevered but it was a little slow so a change to a favoured Dab mark brought more Dogfish Dabs and Whiting; a bonus male Skate of around 5-6 lbs brought a disappointing day to an end; there is always next time.
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