Silver Darlings

Bit of a muck about inshore today due to the size of the tide and really just to have a look what was about. We fished the last of the flood and the first of the ebb in the bay after pulling in the pots for the first time this year. A couple of edible crabs and a decent sized spider was a start at least and only time would tell if we could find an early bream or two.
The weather was gorgeous and we both began to wonder why we hadn't put a bit more effort in and gone plaice fishing! It was slow going with the odd small bite here and there, nothing to really get excited about and nothing came of them.
A better bite did materialise after a while but this resulted in something that we should have found in the pots on the way out!

As the flood tide started to die away, Dave's uptider actually registered a fish!.....it came in the shape of a small blonde ray and at least gave us something to photo.

We moved for the ebb and as we arrived at the next mark there were a lot of fish showing mid water on the sounder......never actually caught a herring before today!

In all, we shared around 40 of the silver darlings until the ebb tide started to run through...a great laugh with a bit of bait and tea thrown in!

The ebb was so slow I nearly fell asleep so we knocked it on the head early with thoughts of trying further a field on next weeks small tides. Those bream won't be long until they are around in numbers....