After @Andy135 decided that looking after his daughter was more interesting than fishing with me (what's that all about 🤷🏻♂️), I decided to head out solo and find the last Solent cod.
I set off at 07.45 from Hamble and was greeted by a nice slight sea and a great sunrise.
I aimed east and 20 mins later I dropped anchor off browndown beach, a good 13lb cod had been landed from this exact spot just two weeks ago so it was worth a shot.
The pout we're home
And too were the whiting....
But no cod unfortunately. Also, not one strap was seen today which is weird.
Or not as it happens, especially when these two bastards spent the whole day going up and down and up and down hoovering up what was left.
And to add insult to injury, the fresh NE breeze decided to liberate my bait bucket complete with my last squid.
So the tally was 3 pout and 6 decent whiting which all swam back well.
Oh well, still better than working!!