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    A weekend to remember

    Aug 24, 2020 5 minutes
    Words and
    photography by
    MIKE LELLIOTT

    AFTER REPORTS OF GOOD numbers of smoothhounds and some stingrays being caught on our local beaches in West Sussex, I decided to take my 12-year-old son Alfie for a Friday night fishing session near our home at Bognor Regis.

    With high water at 6.30pm, we headed to our venue at around 4.30pm. Both being keen to devote some time to targeting colossal stingrays, we soon had large ragworm baits deployed at various ranges. We sat back and stared at our rod tips and hoped for that elusive pull down. Unfortunately, high water came and went with nothing to show for it. The tide was dropping rapidly, which is normally the time to end the session.

    However, in an effort to actually catch something, we

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