Hi all

[mininewts]

Hi everyone, I'm Mark, new to the site. Used to do a bit of beach/pier fishing with my dad when younger and not been out in a good few years, that was until last weekend, when i drew a complete blank, apart from a LOT of weed!

I live in the portsmouth area and headed to the old haunt of Eastney, the wind was up and no-one was catching anything!

Any tips/locations to try out to catch would be appreaciated, to keep the rekindled interest alive!!!!

I'm looking to get out this weekend too.

I've got a 12ft beach caster and a 10ft spinning rod, some lures. I use mainly flapper rigs with rag or sandeel. Never tried feathers, although have some at hand.

Be good to get a bit of updated info, as the old mans tips from way back are probably not too useful today! lol


Cheers, looking forward to the advice
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Mark

[MRG2000]

Welcome to the forum Mark .......

[scottish_and_mental]

Welcome along mate.. sadly every where along our part of the coast is weeded to buggery .
As for venues it depends when you want to get out and for how long .
Places like Hayling Island up by the Inn on the beach are worth a punt during daylight ( its relatively weed free on Hayling )
Gilkicker or Stokes bay at night for a bass,ray or smoothound...
Choose the right sized tide - try and fish after dark and get some peelers .. theres shedloads of weed but fortunately theres also plenty big fish about
Read the catch reports from the South coast area - its why we write them
Steve

[mininewts]

I've had a look at the catch reports for ideas. what do you calss the right sized tide??
I want to try and get out anytime really, would be eves during the week. I fancy getting out tomorrow, high tide is about 1.30 pm, not ideal for the beach with the weather being so good, but might try Gilkicker. Are there prefered tide states/venues? normally used to only fish the tide coming in and turning, but read on here about low tide fishing......

Cheers for the welcome and the early advice, i hope to be able to post some catches soon!!!!!

[scottish_and_mental]

Originally Posted by mininewts

I've had a look at the catch reports for ideas. what do you calss the right sized tide??
I want to try and get out anytime really, would be eves during the week. I fancy getting out tomorrow, high tide is about 1.30 pm, not ideal for the beach with the weather being so good, but might try Gilkicker. Are there prefered tide states/venues? normally used to only fish the tide coming in and turning, but read on here about low tide fishing......

Cheers for the welcome and the early advice, i hope to be able to post some catches soon!!!!!

I tend to fish midweek evenings too ( as do a couple of other top danglers on here ) and we tend to choose venue depending on tide size - places like Milford are only fishable on small tides and generally only on the ebb - Gilkicker can be fished on any state of the tide as its deeper water but again ,only on smaller tides .. Hayling is better on the flood and first 2 hours of ebb and a bigger tide is better but go round the corner to sandy point and its only a low water venue ..
Tides for Pompey are all arse about tit for night fishing next week and its big tides so i'm gonna have to look at somewhere other than kicker or Hayling
Sunday night tide looks pretty good for a smut chase over at Lee on solent with high water about 2 am

Inn on the beach is worth it once the kids are back at school during the day AND on a night or try somewhere like Gosports millenium pier

[fishypaul]

hi mark welcome to the forum

[barbelblanker]

Welcome!