This morning I woke up at 4.30am and picked up my Nephew Tom to go out fishing (Yup, I'm mad getting up that early hehe). I had never tried Brixham Breakwater before so that's where we went.

The first bit of good news was the car park was only charging 70p to park all day which is a sweet deal. The walk to the end of the breakwater seemed to go on forever and we were both excited about being somewhere new. I took out the bait I had bought from sporting lines in Belgrave road the night before (squid and sand eels) and it was all rotten and stunk. It was all we had (hadn't expected it to be off) so we had to make do.

Because the place is so popular we didn't expect the problems we had. Pretty much every time we reeled in we snagged on rocks and lost everything on the line pulling it back up. I hadn't expected it so didn't bring anything to combat the rocks. After going through our weights we tried float fishing instead but had the same problems. We ended up having to leave and vowed to talk to other people about how to properly fish the breakwater.

We then headed to Torquay Pier because we couldn't afford to lose anymore tackle and nowhere at that time of morning was open. A kind chap there gave us a mackerel he just caught for bait. I went bottom fishing and only had 3 bites the whole morning and Tom went after mackerel using eels. The result was 1 mackerel for all our effort that morning :)

I did some take pics so I'll be uploading them onto the site in the next couple of days.