Hey Guys

went down to the Peasholm Dog Beach this morning to have a shot at some tailor or whatever was around.  Picked the time based on seabreeze saying it was going to be blowing offshore and was lucky enough that that coincided with the high tide.

Took a 9' Ozflex spin rod with my certate 4000 and a 7'6" pfleuger (courtesy of Honsu at Oceanside) and my baby stella 1000FB.

Got there just on 7.00am - though about going earlier but have not fished off the beach so long that I thought that it would be better to be battling away in the light rather than the dark.

Started off with a star sinker and mulie off a trace and left that set while I did a bit of casting with the Pfleuger and a brown snapback.  Couldn't get out that far with my 1/8oz jighead but can't go much heavier because the tip on the rod is so light.  No luck with the snapback.

The set rod baits were getting eaten up.

As I was watching the sea, I saw a herring turn in a cresting wave and not long after, I saw 5 good sand whiting swimming along in a wave as well.  I kept on with a couple of tiny plastics to see if I couild nail a good whiting but still no luck. I persisted with the set line, and eventually went to a little bait rig on the Pfleuger with a small ball sinker, owner hook and squid.  Plenty of bites but they were light even on the light gear and after an hour or so I hooked a baby whiting.

Life was tricky at the dog beach as I had dogs running around my gear flicking sand everywhere and the labradors were partial enough to mulies (labradors being partial to anything edible and quite a few things which are inedible) to knock off half of my bait before I knew what was going on.

Trying to run two lines at once was a bit much so I took all the bait rigs off and started casting a 40g twisty instead.  Hooked one herring on that and after changing down to a 20g twisty got another herring.  My leave pass then expired and I was required back at home.

Next time around, I will go with the twisties alone and leave the bait for a more secluded type of beach.  Would have liked the  big whiting, but I think I would need to sight fish for them with a plastic if the big ones are swimming by.

Cam