In article , lid
wrote:

Thanks for the tips Derek - I'm desperately in need of spinning tips - I've
been sea fishing from the shore about 5 or 6 times now and still haven't had
any bites...

With this unseasonably warm weather I'm thinking maybe I ought to go try
for the first bass of the season rsn... And the three year pollack should
be inshore any day now too.

Funny that you mention it, but I've been avoiding rocks (haven't wanted to
get caught on them and loose my gear) - but are you saying this should be
the place you go to to catch?

You fish wherever a predator might expect to find a meal - until this years
fry hatch that will be in fast channels, around rocks and among graunch - at
dusk try spinning -just- above the kelp. In daylight work over drop-offs.
At first light scurry your lure between scattered patches of graunch - where
the odd tiddler might have lingered a little too long.

Also - should I being doing this at high or low tide - or doesn't it really
matter much?

Every venue has its own pattern. In general fish will only come -really-
shallow on a rising tide but back off into postition to catch runoff streams
as the tide drops.

Where I live, there's been lots of new sea defenses added over the last
three years and there's lots of boulders and new shingle, so I'm getting the
impression that there's perhaps not many fish out in these stands.

Roughly whereabouts are you - there may be someone here with local knowledge.

Along the coast a bit is new shingle, but no rocks or boulders where lots of
fishermen go, but all seem to be baiting (which I'm not keen on). What do
you think my best options are? Use a more buyuont plug over the rocks in
close to the shore at high tide?

First option along the south and west coasts is a floating plug on a rising
tide at -first- light. In daylight you could do worse than floatfish
between a metre down and the bottom using light floats - chubber for eg. or a
big freshwater slider.

And you can groundbait in the sea too - see:

http://www.fishing.casterbridge.net/bait/scroff1.html

Yes - you *can* spin over groundbait.

Cheerio,

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