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But at low tide the fish (bass amd mullet) were jumping around us as we
waded out.. The sea looked like it was boiling eventually, but we caught
nothing. Tried every lure we had, bought it in fast, then slow, varying
everything, but not one bite. They followed the lures now and again, but
didn't bite. They were jumping out of the water 12 feet in front of us.

Had a similar experience on the W Dorset coast. Loads of fish inshore but
(apart from mackerel) nothing taken - though I did pull out of one fish on
a tiny fly.

There are zillions of pinhead fry inshore and at HT there were vast
quantities of seaweed maggots floating too. There is just too much
easy-catch, small, food around right now. Fish can feed themselves by
swimming aroud with their mouths open, they don't need to chase.

Within a fortnight the surviving fry will be four times the size and the
predators will have to chase again.

A couple of locals took a very small dinghy about two hundred yards
offshore to the main drop-off and came back with three bass taken on small
plugs. 3lb, 6lb and 12lb. They simply pottered along 'til they saw a
feeding shoal and drifted through it three times.

Any ideas on how we caught nothing? Our barbecue was reduced to burgers
from Lidl, sausages from Tesco...

On that diet you probably won't live to fish again.. ;-)

Cheerio,

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