Brighton Inshore Fishing - Catch reports 18th July 2025

Another day of wondering where the quality fish have suddenly vanished to. First sailing, I had some of my best rods aboard. Mark, Carolyn, Nick and Andy have all seen some great fish trying to make their blood leak aboard BIF1. The whole length of my patch AND first light, but I couldn't make anything stick. Just 3 bass, two returned, and a couple of mackerel by-catch.

Next sailing Darren, his lovely wife Mel, and friend Scott were with me, and all were adorable in the way they accepted the news that the fishing was hard. As if to compensate, Neptune gave us a little intimate moment with two adult harbour porpoise and their very young calf. So sweet. The fishing though was hard. Until the last forty five minutes when finally, I found a patch of fish worth drifting across repeatedly. 8 fish was the final tally. One and a jumbo mackerel killed.

The porpoise were again showing in the same area for my next crew, two fathers and son. Gary and his adult lad Luke, new to BIF1 and to bass fishing. Well, sea fishing full stop if I understood correctly. And returning, Jamie's dad with James. We will call him Tom, because that stuck, despite not being his name at all. Ive known him a while. As Jamie's dad. It becomes hard to change,.

As a direct result of the previous session I knew the area the fish were. They had moved a bit, but were occasionally smashing off the top so it was clear where they were. And a second patch in tight. This led to all catching bass, the tally being ten. A catch and release crew, a single one killed for Jamie's granddad. A fun afternoon but with the fish being very small, a hell of a lot of non hookups on the size 1 inline singles. Fished attached to an Axia glide, its deffo getting the response, Just tiny's bounce off. Come back quality fish... All is forgiven.