{"id":23139,"date":"2016-10-13T09:51:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T08:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=23139"},"modified":"2016-10-13T09:51:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T08:51:01","slug":"seas-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/10\/seas-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea&#8217;s Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t managed to go fishing again since I was out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/sup-fishing-borth\/\">SUP fishing<\/a>\u00a0on Monday, but I have been swimming a couple of times and the sea is alive with fish at the moment. It&#8217;s madness. Small bait fish (mainly sprats) are literally throwing themselves onto the rocks and beaches around here. All in an attempt to escape the clutches of predatory mackerel. The mackerel are in the midst of a feeding frenzy, snatching at anything that so much as moves or glints. 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