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Monday 5th April, 5am up and ready for my pickup.
2hrs to Hull for bait, A & D Tackle Hull, are recommended, so we pop in and meet Mark the owner. Talk of where we were heading, Tunstall, gave way to other hotspots, on the Holderness Coast. After collecting the bait and bits that were required, we decided to try one of the spots Mark said does good. He also pointed out that this time of the year scratching about on the shore was a bit hit and miss.
We decided to head for Holmpton, as none of use had fished there before.

After the car was parked and on with our fishing clobber, off we went to look for that access down the cliff to the beach. We managed to find a spot to get down the cliff, as pointed out by Mark, and set up a base. The wind was a Westerly, so coming from behind us, fast broken cloud and rays of sunshine streaming across the beach and sea. The sea was flat and 2 hours before low, when we cast our first line.

Soon came the smell of bacon from the base, where Dave was preparing a nice surprise, Big Thick Bacon Butties.

Well the fishing was slow, or stop, as nothing was happening. The tide turned, again nothing but then we started to pull in the blooming crabs. 3 hours up and I had the first fish, a Whiting, this got us all back into positive thinking. Soon we all were catching, small Whiting and Flounder were caught, no rockling though. After another 3 hours things just slowed to a stop so it was time to pack up, as we had given it our best.
Clambering up the cliff, was easier than coming down, then the slow walk back to the car. Arriving at the car we were blowing and puffing, knackered, but felt as if the cobwebs had been blown from inside our heads. We changed out of our fishing clobber and loaded the kit into the car, sat for a couple of minutes to recollect the day.
Yes another days fishing, at a new venue, and one day we will be back to Holmpton, when the fishing is a lot better.
The car was started up and then we were off on our 2.5hr journey home.