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Plaice And Cod Hunt Abbotsbury /Cogdon 25/26 September

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 A  late decision to go fishing meant I would have to dig some worms as the shops would all be shut by the time I arrived on the coast .So I left home Friday evening  to coincide my arrival for low water when I could get at the worm beds which was about 11pm ! And i arrived bang on schedule although this didn't help much as I really struggled to find any worms for the first hour ....Thankfully i  persevered  and for the next hour and a half I had enough blow lug for the weekend . It was now 1:30am and I spent the next 20mins driving towards Abbotsbury wondering if I should fish or get some sleep for a good days fishing in the sun ....well  I opted to fish ! So from 2am - 6am I fished the cottages at Abbotsbury with not a lot to show for my troubles in fact all I managed was a 3lbs conger one dog fish and a couple poor cod and the spider crabs made a return pulling my rods over just about every cast ! High water was about 6am and not much was happening so I decided to get some k

STORM HENRY SEPTEMBER 2015

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After recent poor sessions me and Pete had been waiting for a good storm to stir up Chesil and if the forecasts were correct then the coming storm ' named Henry' was hopefully going do the job mid week . Being fish able and unfishable can be a close thing so I was constantly texting Pete to go and have a look but he kept replying its fine Nick ! So I did some work in advance to get the afternoon off .The day finally arrived and I was hearing that the sea was rather rough but I had the afternoon off so I was going to at least try and fish it! I arrived at low water with only a few anglers on the beach , Henry had left being a  big brown sea with rafts of weed and  I also noticed while walking to my chosen mark at Abbotsbury that the other guys fishing were just using one rod and just standing down the bottom holding the rods up high out of the waves and weed and it was clearly working for them as they were reeling in a few cod . These were the conditions a bit later when P

Battle Of The Marks Session 1 15TH SEP

The first session coincided with a weeks holiday which I dedicate to fishing chesil at the start of September this being my favourite time of year to fish chesil normally !!!! Conditions were very calm with Crystal clear water,  In fact this had been the conditions for more or less the entire week . We decided to fish from 6pm - midnight  Pete fishing his favourite mark in the west and I fished my favourite mark in the east. We were hopeful for plaice ,Bream Gurnard in the first few hours and maybe a cod,ray or bass in the evening with the normal dogs and pout mixed in ! But what we in fact encountered was probably the hardest/worst  fishing of the year . All I could manage to get out was 3 Pout and a small strap conger during the session and I actually put in 80 hours fishing that week for 6 pout 1 eel  and a couple mackerel off the bottom 'plenty on feathers though ' which is by far my worst weeks fishing in September .Pete didn't fare to much better with very few bit