By now, low water was fast approaching and I knew I could only fish an hour maximum of the flooding tide before heading back for the school run. This should have been a hot time, but for whatever reason, I could only find yet more dogfish, strap eels and codling. Lee went on to land two more hounds, but the general size of the fish was disappointing to say the least, as was the much lower number of fish we managed to pull out on the day.
This year has been a struggle when it comes to smoothhound fishing.