Chesil Hunter's Fishing Reports

So this was my first trip of many this week and I decided to make the long walk to my plaice mark .Not the best of choices with the water a milky colour on arrival but was hoping that would soon clear as it happened it stayed milky up until the evening .So after 6 hours without a bite my rod I had out for cod went over only for me to miss it ! so re baited and put it in the same place and it was only a matter on minutes before it went over again and this time it was on and a lovely 5lb codling made up for a poor day Another codling was to follow on high tide and then the dog fish took over and the bait was getting snatched within minutes of every cast so gave up and went to sleep .As for Saturday very poor fishing again with only a red mullet to be seen so lets hope tomorrow is better !! Trip 2 The cottages Abbotsbury So I Thought I would fish the other end of Abbotsbury for a change opposite the cottages sadly I think I would of been better off towards the dragoons teeth

I had a really good session at my plaice mark this weekend but it wasn't only plaice I also had 12 bream and 3 red mullet . All fish were taken on  ragworm /Squid and were not interested in the frozen blacks so I must get fresh next time . As for the plaice, seeing as I was catching them in close range a couple of weeks ago I decided  to stick to that so I was casting no more then 60yards . I also left my worms out in the sun as the plaice seem to like them more when they go a bit manky and  I didn't have to wait long before one come along.  I was walking 30 yards down the beach for casting out and using a flat plain lead which would move around and hopefully find the fish and it seems to work well although the bream were finding the bait before the plaice most of the time but more were to follow And they say save the best till  last well that is what I did on this trip with a personal best plaice coming in at 3lbs 6oz resulting in a very happy angler

I had a spur-of -the -moment session sunday with good results.Although I was thinking of targeting plaice this was soon quashed on arrival when I was greeted with dirty water and a lot of undertow. So out with the cod rigs 'pulley pennels ' with fresh dungy as bait and straight in to the codling. All were around the 2lbs mark and I ended up catching eleven codling and one whiting so I am now looking forword to getting back down there !!!

Well the wait for my prime plaice mark to open up for fishing has arrived and my first session there this year went well on the whole although it was hard work .I arrived on low water so had a brief go for codling while i waited for the sun to get up a bit higher .I didn't have high hopes of catching a cod what with the conditons/water colour and the trawler going round in circles in front of me So i wasn't  disappointed with a no show for them . Anyway 11am was soon appon me and  I was straight out with some dropper bling rigs and straight in to a nice paice target achieved on first cast resulting in a happy angler who could now chill for the rest of the day Bait was rag/lug Not long after another about the same size also took a liking to a Rag/lug cocktail About this time I was also catching some stunning little red mullet and a few Gurnard    There is not much to report from the night fishing other then a small smooth hound making an appearance So got some

Well I spent all week watching the weather and strong winds were forecast for thursday /friday which were going to make for a rough sea, but the forecast for Saturday was  for the winds to switch northwesterly in the afternoon as the tide was going out so I thought it would be fishable after this .And  infact it was much easier going then I thought and almost perfect for fishing .So I arrived at 15:30 and while I was setting up the two guys next to me pulled in four codling so I couldnt get my rods out fast enough.  I was using a pulley pennel  on one rod and single clip down on the other and didn't go over 2/0 hooks as I have only been hearing of small codling coming out .Well I could not of asked for a better start with my first two cast both producing a codling ,the bait was fresh dungy tipped with squid . I quickly changed over the rigs and bang the rod goes down again but missed this time .So rebaited it and after 15 minutes my rod lunged forward and I am greeted with m