Brighton Inshore Fishing - Catch report 13th June 2025

Amazing. After a great run of good wind direction and plenty of sailings, bang... 2 weeks of winds from the wrong direction and blowing far too hard meaning no sailings for me, until today, Friday 13th. Along with me for first sailing, all returnee's. Richard, Ian, James and Brian. And out on mirror calm seas, despite a late change in the forecast suggesting we would have a strong SW breeze. In fact, any breeze was easterly, and almost non existent.

Brian set the pace with a fish first cast. A quality fish despatched for the table. Sizeable fish were less apparent, with the end result being a fish each taken for the table. But an awful lot returned as well, as small fish were on the rampage. Lots of fun, with the final tally being 35 landed, plus backup mackerel (some quite large ones) and a single bream

2nd sailing, and it was my pleasure to welcome aboard Mitch, Sam, and Simon. Accompanying Uncle Simon was his nephew Charlie, aged 8, who was coming for his first fishing experience.

Fishing was a bit harder, but happily, everyone caught some fish, including Charlie who did very well indeed. Just three killed for the table, from a 12 fish total. And one released for the crime of being over the BIF1 size for killing limit of 60cm, a cracking fish of 63 cm to Mitch. Well earned.

Third sailing was a bit of a grueller. A real shame, as Joel had bought his girlfriend Miriam along. Also aboard was Ian and Mitch. A struggle from the beginning. One where I run end to end for not very much at all. However, chatting with friends, we were quite unlucky. One friend was fishing a patch of ground we vacated, and ten minutes later was surrounded by small bass. Another pushed in super tight and went on surface lures as it got shallow, and scored well. Close, but no cigaro.

Seven small bass and a gurnard was the final score for us. Bringing the days tally to 54 bass landed. Not terrible. And we will imminently see further change, and bigger fish in super close. Lots and lots of good food sources about to appear, which will attract bigger numbers and bigger fish into the edges. I myself cannot wait. A windy weekend to get through, and then we will be good to go.