Thunderpants
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First chuck at 9pm nobody else around and a bit breezy. Quiet at first then after an hour and a half a couple of small knocks resulted in an undersized whiting and an undersized codling. Not much else then until just after midnight (about ten mins after low water) when I got another undersize codling. The wind had dropped by now and the air was still and the water flat. Things started picking up then with more and more knocks appearing I lost a couple but then landed two coalies 34cm and a canny one at 40cm. From then on it was an exciting few hours with loads of knocks some quite big but with the fish adopting a "hit and run" approach i.e. hitting the bait once then buggering off not giving me time to lift my rod and get at them 
I managed to land another three whiting (biggest one 38cm) and also lost something which felt a good size on the retrieve due to winding in too quick and losing it when it hit the surface too fast (got over excited :red
. Packed in 4am after a good fun session having caught eight fish - 4 whiting, 2 codling and 2 coalie , had loads of knocks to keep me busy, seen a fox and I got to meet the smallest codling in South Shields . All fish returned apart from the 40cm coalie and 38cm whiting. Baits used rag, yellow tails and mackeral. Fish were all on the worm baits except the coalies which were just mackeral.
I managed to land another three whiting (biggest one 38cm) and also lost something which felt a good size on the retrieve due to winding in too quick and losing it when it hit the surface too fast (got over excited :red. Packed in 4am after a good fun session having caught eight fish - 4 whiting, 2 codling and 2 coalie , had loads of knocks to keep me busy, seen a fox and I got to meet the smallest codling in South Shields . All fish returned apart from the 40cm coalie and 38cm whiting. Baits used rag, yellow tails and mackeral. Fish were all on the worm baits except the coalies which were just mackeral.
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