Fishing at Goodrington Promenade

 

I was away in Goodrington Devon for most of he week, I gave up fishing on Monday evening as the wind was quite strong and blowing along the promenade making it unconfutable to fish, so I packed up after about one and a half hours, Tuesday evening the wind was still in the same direction, so I didn't other to go fishing,  Wednesday the wind had changed direction and the wind speed dropped, I got to the venue just after low tide, and managed to find a parking space close to the beach in one of the few roads with no parking restrictions, I set up my 2 rods one for bottom fishing the other with a float, for the first hour I just used the rod set up for bottom fishing, but no luck with that, I later put out the float at first nothing as the tide came in a few little knocks then the float went right under this time it was a nice sized Mackerel about half an hour later a second similar size to the first, that's tomorrows breakfast, more fish were caught they were given away or returned, I thought Thursday would be just as good but it was not to be, firstly the road with free parking there were no spaces and a number of people looking for spaces, on the way down I always make a note of any spaces parking spaces on the main road, there were some but it's a longer walk, I ended up parking on the main road, the walk takes me past two of the main car parks more about these later, there were a few people fishing when I got there, I fished from about 18.00 to 22.15 the sea was calm, very little wind however the fish were not biting, the evenings catch two very small Whiting, the Whiting do not normally show up until later in the year, on the way back to my car I noticed a car parked right behind the car park gate as I climbed the road to the bridge over the railway I saw three other cars in the car park, the two main car park close promptly at 22.00, almost daily there are complaints about cars being locked in, this is the reason I do not use the car park, the two other car parks are much smaller and do not close at night one is at the other end of the beach the other is next to the pub (too much temptation).