Slow times in the East Neuk

With a week off looming and hoping to get out fishing 3-4 times I thought it best to get an early start and get out on Saturday. The plan was to meet Sandy (Fife65) somewhere in the East Neuk. On the way over to the mark Sandy phoned to say the swell was too big and the wind increasing to be safe and arranged to meet at an alternative nearby, where I shortly found Sandy having a coffee after getting his hooks in the water. Big hooks with rotten bottom  pulleys were the rig of the day as we were after some coddies.

The sea was fairly rough but not mad and there was a reasonable colour to it which had us hoping even though the weather and water were both unseasonably warm.

The chat flowed but nothing was interested and after a short unfruitful move along the mark a bit we decided to move further away and give the White Pier at Anstruther a bash.

The tide was dropping so we went towards the end of the pier. This time there were a lot of knocks but we were both fairly sure that the culprits were small coalies and not the coddies we were after. Worried about a blank we had a small rod in the inner harbour hoping for flatties or mini species. Sandy was first to beat the blank with an eel pout followed quickly by myself with a wee coalie so at least a double blank beaten.

We fished on for another couple of hours with no more luck.