Advice on fishing chesil

[dan25]

Hi.

I am after a little help/advice (i am fairly new to beach casting)

I have fished chesil several times with feathers for mackeral (i think its abbotsbury i go, large gravel car park with a little burger/coffee hut?!)
Last time i went i set up a rod with a flapper rig and a 5oz lead with lug worm, i have used this rig previously while in broadstairs, kent to much success, but while trying this method at chesil i found that my lead just got buried under the rocks as the waves came in and out, and ended up loosing several leads/hooks etc. i am keen to try fishing the bottom with bait to catch so different species!

Am just wondered how i should set my rigs up to fish on the bottom, am i simply using the wrong rig?

any help/advice muchly appreciated.

[davo001]

i have found that the pulley rig always works well you can pennel optional depends on the species you are targeting always worth trying running leger with big baits for conger and bass close in hope this helps
you will need grip leads to cope with the tide
for smaller species try a 2 hook patanoster rig with worm topped with either mackeral or squid chesil throws up alsorts and dont be afraid to walk along beach many marks ask other anglers they are mostly helpfull

[dan25]

ok brilliant i will make some of them rigs up and try them next time i go.


does a 5oz lead sound about the right weight on a fairly calm day?

thanks

[pingu]

5 oz should be fine but if thers a swell longer wires or a 6 may be better
chesil has a big undercurrent that is quite dangerous, its this what buries the leads in

any rig will do there , but if tide is incomeing try to cast slightly left of your position and let the lead settle before gripping( to the right if going out) , dont fish the rods bow string tight, if they get pulled out and go slack move about THAT is when they get burried

most snags on chesil are balls of lost line and 7,000 lost sets of feathers from all the mackerallers that decend there in the summer and fish without shockleader, apart from an old cable that runs parralel to the beach for about 60ish yrds from centre west bex carpark to the right and is about 30 yrds out


dave

[dan25]

Originally Posted by pingu

if thers a swell longer wires or a 6 may be better
chesil has a big undercurrent that is quite dangerous, its this what buries the leads in

any rig will do there , but if tide is incomeing try to cast slightly left of your position and let the lead settle before gripping( to the right if going out) , dont fish the rods bow string tight, if they get pulled out and go slack move about THAT is when they get burried

apart from an old cable that runs parralel to the beach for about 60ish yrds from centre west bex carpark to the right and is about 30 yrds out

thats very usefull info much appreciated!!

[davo001]

thanks pingo didnt know about the wire will avoid that in future

[eddie]

as you face the sea an incoming tide will flow from right to left towards portland,on the ebb it will flow from left to right.
lead size will depend on the swell,but i generally use 5oz and in heavy tides i wrap an elastic band around the wires depending on how bad the swell is,this still allows the grips to break out....just makes it a little harder to do so
on the springs i tend to walk up the beach (westwards towards devon) as much as 15 yards then cast out,this will allow enough line to out to bed the lead.
if you're getting buried by the shingle then raise your rod up higher,this occurs most in heavy swells and is worse at the ferrybridge end than abbotsbury,by your post it sounded like you were fishing the main chesil car park area,....was there a parking ticket machine?
there is a small cafe at abbotsbury also run by the national trust,but both ends have a gravel car park and cafe,one is cheaper on parking though!

[dan25]

yea there was a parking ticket machine!

[scottish_and_mental]

Originally Posted by dan25

yea there was a parking ticket machine!

Then you were most definatley at the Weymouth end of chesil and not Abottsbury .. the pebbles are much larger here and as you head west toward West bexington and Cogden the the pebbles get down to smaller than pea size and there is more sand to fish over.

As suggested almost any rig will do on the bank , as will most baits on their day . this time of year its big whiting and cod on peoples minds so black lug,fresh outs and crab are the weapons of choice .

[dan25]

o right brilliant! The car park is just out of weymouth, i turn off the road into the car park on my right, there is a bay on the left where they always appear to be windsurfing etc. Do i just follow this road on towards portland to get to the beach with smaller pebbles? I am not from weymouth and do not know the area that well, but would be nice to try the beach with smaller pebbles as an alternative once in a while.

1 other question: is it better at night, early morning or evening? I am keen to catch a cod or 2.

Thanks.