The Eastbourne Fisherman

26/07/2024

So I was going through some bits today and come across this!?

Does anyone have any info on it

Be funny to try catch a fish on it!

26/07/2024

🎣🎣 FREE TO ENTER COMPETITION 🎣🎣

This competition is free to enter for all page

To win all the items shown in the picture posted directly to your door.

1) tag a few mates in the comments section

And

2) share this post

I winner will be chosen at random and contacted directly by myself

Please do not reply to any comments saying you have won prior to me contacting you personally, never give any of your personal details to anyone to prevent you becoming a victim of any potential spammers or scams.

Competition will run for 4 weeks
Items will be posted out to winner on 28th August

Good luck all 👍

26/07/2024

Hello

As many of you who may have followed both this page and my Facebook group UK & IRELAND SEA ANGLERS WILL now know that the Facebook group UK & IRELAND SEA ANGLERS is no longer and has been closed down.

This page will now remain the sole hub for myself which I will hope to now update regularly.

I will aim to run competitions via this page
Continue to help support kids through my rehoming rods program and also try to raise money for charity via small raffles.

Going forward I would also like to arrange some local meets for people from the page to meet others and fish.

I openly invite anyone who wishes to to send in catch reports and pictures (either freshwater or sea) of fish you have caught via message to myself that we can then post via this page to hopefully turn it into a shared community space.

Huge thanks to all who support the page 👍

25/07/2024

Tide times for EASTBOURNE JULY 2024

🎣EASTBOURNE TIDE TABLES JULY 2024🎣
For local tackle and bait visit us at Pevensey Bay BN24 6AY, ring us on 01323 460441, or browse online at www.anglersdensussex.co.uk

25/07/2024

😲😲😲

!!KIDS FISH FREE!! !!KIDS FISH FREE!!

FREE FISHING TRIPS FOR CHILDREN UNDER 13 YEARS OLD.

this summer I'm offering free fishing for school kids.
I'm trying to get children in to boat fishing. And knowing how expensive fishing trips are now day's. And struggle for the cost of living for some ppl has become we are offering free fishing for children to make it easier on parents pockets. we are in talks with the local council for next season. to work with under privileged families
Who are struggling with everyday life to get children off the streets and away from crime drug's and gang's and to get them into a hobby that can be rewarding.

Captain ant 🐜

14/07/2024

Proud to announce I will be fishing again in the The Conger Cup 2024

Last year was an absolute blast and so much fun.

If your a boat owner or charter boat and want to get involved check out the page

Ben aka The Amputee Angler & Jake aka Muscle Fishing did a fantastic job last year with this event along with some amazing sponsorship, so get involved :)

Here is my video from last year it was awesome 👇

https://youtu.be/tz8S3IJZQTA?feature=shared

12/07/2024

Fished Pevensey Bay area - East Sussex, last night was a pretty last minute session trying to fit some fishing in between work and the bands of rain!

Quick call to cliff and we set off, the bait we used was some bits and piece I russled up from the dark depths of my freezer consisting of some worms, box of squid an old mackerel and some razor fish.

The plan was to fire out penneled squid on my airpower gtr rod and then using the airlyte rod fish in close with a pop up rig small size 4-6 hooks scratching around with a rolling lead.

We fished the tide down to low then back up two hours.

Not much on the ebb tide at all just some little taps here and there which I left and came to nothing.

The flood tide produced some nice bass for cliff biggest being 42cm and he lost a decent one close in which we was gutted about.

I was just waiting - sitting on my hands hoping something would happen!

Then I started thinking and I cast my airlyte to a spot where the waves broke over what I believed to be a sandbar or gulley to my right a beach down, this time I was using a two hook flapper with a blue grip lead baited with razor fish on both hooks.

I turned round to have a chat with cliff and he got another bite, then out of nowhere my reel screams off and the tip starts dancing in the rod rest followed by a lovley slack line. I reeled into it and bang we was on, after a lovley battle on the airlyte (man what a rod that is!) a lovley bass of 52cm was landed being I think my biggest bass on bait so a new pb! I have had bigger bass into the 60s on lures but nothing above mid to late 40s on bait.

All in all a good night

I did ditch the braid as most of you know I have been using braid straight through for a long time and it's past it's date by far now needs reversing back onto the spools if anything!

I used the Akios/inova silk mono red line in 15lb with the taper tech leader

Man the stuff is like feeling in air its that smooth and glides through the rod eyes perfectly

The leader knots down so small too

Deffo may be converted back to mono after that session.

If you haven't got an airlyte - get one or 2 and thank me later!

11/07/2024

This year I will continue my support to the local kids nursary fundraising event with these two fishing set ups for kids 🎣

The reels even light up 😲

Please someone do an adults version of the reel!

Thanks to the guys at Anglers Den for sorting them for me, top bunch of lads as always :)

11/07/2024

Things have been pretty quiet for me over the last few sessions I have managed to get out locally.

However the sunrises and the feeling of being energised before work on these early morning sessions make up for the lack of fish!

However I did manage a bass which was cool!

Think it's nearly time to switch over to the lures for summer, I have a few new things I want to try this year so hopefully all goes to plan.

How has your fishing been?

10/07/2024

Shout out to Mr Fish Jersey for getting these out to me super fast.

Looking forward to using them when the weather gets better :)

Anyone used a bombarda before?

Had any success with them?

06/07/2024

A quick fish before work, an awesome sunrise and a few fish also 👍

SEA FISHING UK - SEA FISHING IN EASTBOURNE - EARLY MORNING HOLYWELL SESSION WITH AWESOME SUNRISE SUBSCRIBE TO THE ...

06/07/2024

First session with the Akios Airlyte - what a lovley rod and compliments my main rod perfectly :)

SEA FISHING UK - SEA FISHING IN EASTBOURNE - FIRST SESSION WITH THE AKIOS AIRLYTE ROD SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL NOW...

06/07/2024

Another go for a smoothound down Norman's bay with a bit of lug pumping thrown in at low tide.

In this week's episode I head down to Norman's Bay for low tide, pump some lugworm and try for a bass and a smoothound using squid. ...

16/06/2024

Managed another small one still no monsters atm but will persist and keep going :)

16/06/2024

A tale of two halves from sadness to pure joy!

So after long thought I retired my pair of stunning akios Utopias as you can see from the first picture I was very sad :( they had been fantastic rods and caught me a fair few fish over the last 2 years of owning them.

However time for a change and I'm looking forward to hitting the shingle with my new soon to be pair of Airlytes :) (back to happy face! Pic 2)

Anyone have a Airlyte rod?

What do you think of it?

Or more so what have you caught with it?

The one type of rod I was missing from my selection was a close in bass type rod so glad I have filled in the missing space 👍

Cheers Tony Kirrage top man 😎

08/06/2024

More of my personal items looking to shift
Having clear out

59 gemini leads - £50

Breakaway tackle box lead tray
With damiltech foam insert and multi holders - £20 - SOLD

Collection from Eastbourne

07/06/2024

Another 2 sea fishing set ups went to 1 local lad and a father and son who wanted to fish

These items were donated by David Elstone so huge thanks to David.

Pics 1 and 2

Then I had a message from another local lad zephran who wanted to go carp fishing and if we could help out.

So I put together another carp fishing bundle

Consisting of a really nice diawa black widow rod brand new diawa reel, bank sticks brolly and bait bits to get him going.

These items were donated by Frank, Tony King, Trevor Williams and Tanya.

Again huge thanks to them for the donations

pics 3 and 4

07/06/2024

Recently rehomed a bundle of carp fishing items to local lad Ewan who is 13.

It was great to get a message back saying that he had success in catching a multitude of carp of a session he went on.

Well in mate

Huge thanks to everyone who donates items :) team effort with bits from Tanya's donation Tony kings and Trevor Williams :)

07/06/2024

Here is this week's video
A quick session targeting smoothounds at Pevensey Bay.

I hope you all enjoy :)

BEACH FISHING - SMOOTHHOUND FISHING IN PEVENSEY BAY - SEA FISHING UKIn this session we head to Pevensey Bay to target smoothounds with squid. Using my akios ...

07/06/2024

Great to support the Develop Outdoors initiative which is helping get more kids fishing :)

04/06/2024

THE DONGLE RIG?!

So as always keen to try new things....

Over the last few month I have been playing around with this rig and variations of the rig and was keen to find out from others there experiences with it and how you fish with it also.

So for me I have been mostly using the rig with a single varivas 5/0 circle hook and a split ring as shown in the pic, because for the life of me I can not tie the perfection knot for 💩 lol!

I have been using squid baits and prawn not tried it with crab yet but will do so eventually.

I have had takes using the rig which have been I would say have been quite aggressive followed by short runs on the reel but when picking up the rod and winding into the fish nothing?

Is my dongle piece of braid too long?
Is my bait too big?
Is my hook size too big?
Do I need to wait a bit longer before I go for it?

Have all been questions I have asked myself

Switch back over to a pennel and I seem to catch again?!

Is it a confidence thing and I'm just confident in the bottom hook being present.

What are your thoughts?

I have tried the split ring version
The hair tied version as shown by Robbie on the group and shop tied perfection knot dongles.

Let me know what you think as it would be ace to learn from others.

03/06/2024

So after a weeks of hard graft and not much free time to get fishing. I decided enough was enough and I had to get back out on the shingle!

With previous weeks sessions been pretty poor and the lingering may rot I wasn't too hopefull of catching much or anything at all!

Armed with my akios Airpower black edition and my akios gtr rods paired with my r10 reels I headed down to the shingle at Eastbourne.

The plan was to fish one rod at distance on a pennel rig using the Akios Tamerz 3/0 hook pattern with whole squid to target hounds and the other to fish a little closer in on a three hook flapping rig baited with small worms tipped with razors and squid.

After the first few casts it was evident that a strong tide current was forcing our lighter leads to be pulled right round so a decision to fish just the one rod and up the lead size on that for the Remainder of the evening was made after no initial reaction to the scratching rig.

A few hours passed with nothing at all to show between the 5 of us who was out it wasn't looking hopefull!

Then a few strong pull downs followed by that lovely noise we all long to hear of the reel ticking away I knew we had hit the target.

After a small battle I managed to pull in the first fish of the night which was my initial target and I was pretty chuffed.

Nothing of amazing stature but after a few sessions of blanks I was happy, and the first smoothound of the year was ticked off nicely hooked with a great hook hold provided by the tamerz hook.

Nothing much else happened tbf with a small bass being landed by one of the lads with us and that was followed by a bigger smoothound by my mate Peter towards the end of the night.

No further fish for myself which was a shame.

After having used the Akios Gtr rod for a good month or so now I have to say I'm really enjoying using it, I'm by no means a big caster or heavy hitter but I think overall my casting distance is improving with it which is great. I love that it's pretty smooth in the cast and that paired with the glass tip shows the bites really clear and positive.

Hopefully as the season continues and the may rot filters out, I will be able to catch more fish it.

23/05/2024

INOVA Fishing Tackle Baiting Needles are a great tool to have in your tackle box.

Awesome to use on soft baits and also to make cocktail baits.

Simple to use just feed your bait into the needles and wrap together

One of the forks has a hole locator wor worm baits and the other is a sharp point.

In this video we take a look at the inova baiting needles You get 2 twin 80mm forked needles in each pack with nice grip handles And they retail for around £...

23/05/2024

A nice early eve into night session at the wish tower - Eastbourne proved unsuccessful for me but cliff saved the day by winkling a few fish out!

SEA FISHING UK - BEACH FISHING AT EASTBOURNE WISH TOWER - SHORE FISHING AT NIGHT SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL NOW AND NO...

22/05/2024

Do you know what to do if you get into trouble in the water this summer? Float to Live:
Tilt your head back and submerge your ears.
Relax and try to control your breathing.
Move your hands to help you stay afloat.
It’s OK if your legs sink, everyone floats differently.
Once you are over the initial shock, call for help or swim to safety.
In a coastal emergency, dial 999 or 112 for the coastguard.

21/05/2024

Right come on then, who has been throwing rotting vegetables into the sea again 🙄!?

A marine biologist explains about the potential dangers of the May Rot and how you can stay safe.

14/05/2024

This year I am looking to raise funds for Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex

I will aim to do this via various group raffles through the year on my Facebook group UK & IRELAND SEA ANGLERS if your yet to join the Facebook group head on over and keep your eyes peeled for the next one :)

If raffles are not your cup of tea and you want to get behind us and back the charity you can do so by donating to our group link

Our group fundraising link is here 👇

https://www.justgiving.com/page/jscott-aakss-fundraisingpage?utm_term=37wXAW3ek

OR YOU CAN COPY AND PASTE THE ABOVE LINK INTO YOUR BROWSER

All donations will help us try smash our group total which we have set at £1000

HUGE THANKS IN ADVANCE

JASON

Help Jason Scott raise money to support Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex

11/05/2024

More rehoming items went out today

Managed to top up Adam with some rig making bits and rigs to keep him fishing

And he has introduced a new Angler Alonso to fishing so we kitted him out too.

Rod, reel and bag donated by David Elstone
Cheers matey :)

Rigs donated by Perry Parsons and made by Fish Reaper Rigs 👍maby thanks :)

Some of the line spools donated by Percys - Fishing Tackle & Countryside Clothing Store so huge thanks to them also :)

MACKEREL SEASON IS FAST APPROACHING I HAVE BEACH CASTING SET UPS READY TO GO FOR LOCAL KIDS (ROD REEL FEATHERS AND LEADS)

ALSO HAVE A FEW LURE RODS AND REELS FOR BASS FISHING TOO 🎣

PLEASE MESSAGE ME IF INTERESTED

ALL ITEMS ARE DONATED FREE OF CHARGE
TO HELP SUPPORT LOCAL KIDS FISHING 👍

ALSO IF ANYONE HAS ANY ITEMS TO DONATE INTO THE SCHEME PLEASE LET ME KNOW :)

09/05/2024

Sunset session in Seaford last week, didn't hit target but managed a few fish 🐟👍

SEA FISHING UK - SUNSET SHORE FISHING IN SEAFORD EAST SUSSEXThis week I head to Seaford to give it a go, if wasn't the first choice of places but it was good...

09/05/2024