 Hi everyone, in this video I'm going to be doing something quite different, well I haven't done it for nine years. Since Flo was born I'm going to go beach casting. It'll be interesting to see whether I can still cast with these things. I just hope they don't blow up on my first cast. I never really used to catch much and when I bought a kayak there was no looking back. I'm going to be targeting Sol Fingers Cross because it's late August. You also get things like red mullet, black bream, all got quite small mouths even trigger fish. So first things first I'm going to tie a flapper rig, three hook flapper rig, small hooks and then head down there. Right so the plan is to fish black lug, a little section of rag on the end, cambers and B9 4 O's in a size 4 that's what I'm going to be using and I'll be clipping three of those down. So for the rig body I'm going to use greased weasel, 10 pound breaking strain for every ounce of lead but I'll be casting four ounce of lead so that's fine. Somewhere I've got some bits that I can make some use out. I'm going to use these things to clip down the snoots and as you can see a little bit of metal sticking out there which I'll twist back with a pair of pliers but I'll get this whole rig set up and then show you in its entirety. That's one done and obviously I've twisted that up to stop it from being pulled out. It's a size 4 hook tied onto 20 pound amnesia I've gone for red. We've got the sequin as a stop and as a bait stop I'm just going to get a little snip of silicon tubing and it needs to be about three or four millimetres long. Throw it onto the line, loop the line back over and post it back through again then pull tight. There's a sliding rubber. I can set it about that far away from the hook so the worm bait will be up the line like that. Right so there's the rigging its fall entirety. We've got a swivel at the top to go to onto the shock leader. We've got a swivel trap twin two beads crimped in beads and a short snood followed by a stop, a sequin and the hook and that stowed on the clip down and then spaced out about two foot down. Here's our second one they're all identical and then our third one. You can see the length of the rig it's long with a seven foot rig. It just means that the baits are nicely spread out once they're cast out hence the short snoods really. The more you can spread the baits out the more chances of you actually getting the bait in the right spot but you'll see I've bent the wires out and that's just because it's a big tide just bending the tips over like this gives you a lot more grip and you can get away with lighter leads. So that's that. We've arrived at Cogdon. It's absolutely rammed because it's 8 August all car parks are full up they managed to find somewhere to park and we've got a long walk down to the beach which isn't such a bad thing as it puts off the amateurs doesn't it? Since getting the kayak I haven't really looked back but I'm really glad I came because it's just beautiful. That cool. I have to be honest it's slightly nerve-wracking having to recast this after nine years so my excuse for chucking out a few macro feathers really just see if I can get back into the swing of it. I'm really nervous I expect it to blow up on my first cast but we'll see. So the idea of this is two-fold firstly to get a grip with this thing I can't believe I used to fish with the reels on the left hand just for that extra length of rod to do the work. These are handy such as thumbs from getting ripped up it's a bit of a bike tube just strapped on put it over the shock leader not socks your thumb from getting ripped up. I'm probably only hitting about 80 to 100 yards but to be honest that's a good thing that's fine that'll do me. So I'm using my fingers as opposed to using a line guide excuse my fingers to put the line back on the reel evenly. Fishing a pop-up seems to fish a lot better than feathers down here I don't know why and in recent years the mackerel have got bigger and bigger and fewer and fewer largely because of the commercial fishing it does bring back really good memories coming down here I've been coming down here since I was a kid but it is sad to see the mackerel population becoming depleted whoever would have thought that would be possible. And off that swivel we've got a stripper mackerel just on a long trace with two floating beads popped up behind it and then a nice long drop down to the next swivel with the same thing they're just crimped into place those floating beads and if you're lucky you do pick up bass like that as well or if you scale down you pick up garfish too. I'll pop this one out but just getting to that point of the evening where I'll start thinking about getting some bottom baits out just a baiting needle in just to make it rigid and literally just had a small square rag worm on at the bottom to give a bit of scent. There you go that's one bait done. This rod went over. The bottom mackerel ain't half pulled hard. Yeah this must be a mackerel but it pulled the rod over. Monster mackerel that is ridiculous. So in fact none of it took the rod over. I did have a pouting I didn't bother recording it because pouting is a pouting. We also just had a strapped conger let's go and have a look. I'm walking by. It's not in the sails. Oh that's a drop back. So from wiggly worms on the hook to wiggly congers on the line and that's what it's just coughed up. I imagine I hooked that fish first. And the conger's taking it afterwards. They're cool fish. Brilliant. Right let's have a look at them getting back in. I've got really mixed feelings about that session. It's brought back loads of nostalgic memories of the days when I used to go beach fishing all the time. It was a stark reminder as to just how tough it can be in terms of the fishing. You don't catch anything like as much as you do on the kayak. It was lovely to catch up with old friends. Thank goodness I caught that big mackerel because that paid for my night's accommodation with my mum. Keeps her happy. I bought loads of bait because I wanted to have a secret agenda of going out fishing the next day because the rest of my family are coming down to visit but I've got to use the bait up right. So I'm down at Fairy Bridge and I'm going to pop into the local tackle shop and just pick up a bit of squid and hopefully pick up some garnard and some bream. Perhaps a bass if I'm lucky. What a top bloke in that tackle shop. Ouch. That's new. It's a shame because on the big tides the water used to deter people from crossing. So after a good walk I found myself a section of beach that tied to myself. It's completely flat because there's an 11 mile per hour northerly wind and it's a 4.1 meter tide and it's a neap. If you ever wonder what a neap tide is, a neap tide just means that the tides are gradually getting smaller with the moon as opposed to the spring where they get slightly bigger each time. Yeah so I've got a whole place to myself. I think I might have a... no let's just get on the fish. Riot baits so good the fish will fight over it. Please take your litter home. Good point. Well I hope they're right otherwise I'll be asking for a refund. So I'm going to start off with a slightly exploratory rig. I've got a little bit of squid at the top for any bream that are feeding high up in the water. A ragworm on the middle bait. Tipped with a little bit of squid. Well not cotton bait. I have got a little bit of mackerel flesh because garnard can't resist a little bit of mackerel flesh. I picked these up from the tackle shop. £4.50 for a rig. That's expensive but to be honest with you if it saves me having to make rigs on the beach then that's money well spent and it's a it looks like a good quality rig actually. I'm just going to change the hook sober. I do believe I have a bite after two and a half hours of fishing on the right hand rod. After two hours of waiting I've got a little bream on the squid on the tip so I'll probably just switch all to squid. Saves a blank. About half past four or five o'clock. Ties to start to come back in again. Things have picked up a little bit again if your little rattle's on the right hand rod. It's biker. Got a bit of a cup of garnard on squid. Which is great. It's like beautiful markings. Listen to them croaking. Kicking myself for not switching to squid earlier. I've used the worms so I bought the worms so I need to use them up but the point is if you're not going to catch anything on them. Cool. Just tiny little bits of squid. Three of those strapped on with elastic. My brother's just phoned me on whatsapp and he's asked what this is all about. Well the answer to that is that when the sun's out I can do this right and I can actually see my rod tips. Which is great. So there you are. Top tip. Oh. The bites are really quite subtle actually for the Bremander garnard. Even that double shot. So I better check that out. It's slightly bigger. Minimum size limits 24 centimetres and I think this would be pushing it. But I'd make a nice lunch. That's why it's so important to use small hooks. Taking that one in. Even size fours are a bit too big. Long way mate. There he goes. Ciao. Last casts of the day. I actually said last cast. Three of those going to be my last cast. On the lure I thought I hit a mackerel. It certainly didn't feel like a bass. Both the other rods packed away and I got hit on a sand eel. That's the best garnard that I've had today. It's been absolutely dead the last well for the last couple of hours on the bottom baits. That is so cool. I'm so pleased to catch something on the lure. Wicked. Wicked.