ESCAPE TO KILNSEA

WITH FISHING GOING WELL for rays and smoothhounds on the Holderness Coast, my wife Melanie and youngest son Henry were keen to try their luck. Unfortunately, the weather forecast of strong easterly winds had almost written off our chances.

These are not the conditions favoured on this part of the East Yorkshire coast, yet there was hardly a breath of wind only 45 minutes away where we live just outside Hull. The tree tops were hardly moving. With lunch over, I was being pushed to make a decision.

With a few crabs that needed using or freezing, I decided to drive to the coast and check out Easington. If the conditions were unfavourable, my backup plan was to try for bass in