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Low water-High water ? By Dave Kyte

Low water-High water ? The two friends, who cannot be named for reasons which will become obvious later, set off for a night trip to the famous beach at Dungeness in Kent on a beautiful calm night. Arriving at the venue in pitch darkness they lit their lamps and walked down to the waters edge, set up and commenced fishing, but it was a very slow session, bait was coming back untouched and they never had a bite.

For over two hours this continued, but they were happy. It was a lovely evening and the lights of fishing boats could be seen twinkling in the distance, when suddenly there was some action, but it was not from the fish. They were fishing not far from the lifeboat station and there had obviously been a shout, as all the station lights came on and the tractor that launches the lifeboat from the shingle beach began hauling it down the beach, towards the sea. At least something had come to break the inactivity they thought ,as they watched tractor and boat begin it's relentless journey to rescue some poor soul in distress.

The tractor and lifeboat reached the water's edge, but inexplicably kept going- and going - and going, with lights ablaze and at this point our hapless pair began to realise something was seriously amiss. The tractor had driven through a 20 yard gully, at the base of the shingle, which was filled with water and out onto the sand beyond and slowly the awful truth was beginning to dawn, as tractor and boat trundled on their way to the sea, some three hundred yards away ! They had been casting onto the sand for most of the session.
It was at this point that the distant twinkling lights started getting closer and closer as the bait diggers walked off the beach with the fruits of their night's labour safely in their buckets!