Chesil 24/3/08

[dogmax]

After the exertion of the Saturday night Huss trip, and the Sunday spent watching the dog sleep, and the planned boat trip being called off on account that God has nothing better to do than make it windy in Devon, we decided on an attempt at Chesil, as there are few finer places to spend a day in my opinion. I arrived at Mark's to find that his brother, and Dave, a friend, were to join Mark, Pete and I. "Excellent," I thought, "more the merrier, how many cars are we taking?" "We'll all go in mine" Mark replied, seeing as he has a 4x4. Marks brother, bless him, volunteered to go in the middle, on the back seat, so we built up 5 angler's gear around him and set off



A few miles up the road and my faithful pup decided that he wanted to be part of things up front, and started to migrate toward the rest of us, giving Shane, Marks brother, a hitherto unseen view of Max



Anyway, by the time we got to the car park, Max was quite happily chilled out on my lap in the front, and Shane bore the imprints of 2 tripods either side of his neck, and had lost all feeling in his nether regions. We all loaded up and marched down to the beach, to the left of us, the beach was rammed, guess that's the perils of bank holiday fishing, and the wind made me wish I'd packed the C-curves instead of the Lites, still, we made do and put out various rig and bait combinations. First chuck I noticed a couple of pullsin between gusts, and thought I would give it a bit more time, I had a 3 hook clip down trace on, and wanted to see if one fish would attract any others, after another 5 minutes I bought in this



A little stunner, not massive, but about a pound, it took rag on a size 6 Sakuma, standard scratching stuff, and was swiftly unhooked, admired, sniffed, (by the dog) and returned, where it swam off strongly. After that it went a bit dead, with only a bitten off hook and a couple of foul hooked squat lobsters and a rockling for Mark to show for our efforts, I reckon the bite off was down to early spider crabs, I had it last week down Beesands as well. I amused myself photographing Max, saying the word biscuit over and over to get him to tilt his head and look cute



As you can see, it did'nt work. As the sun went down the horizon lit up, and it became quite breathtaking



like a jewel in the sky, or a jacuzzi with the pussycat dolls naked and holding beer and burgers, which would also be breathtaking..... and awesome.
The fishing improved slightly, with Dogfish, Pout and Whiting coming to the beach, and about 9.15ish we all trooped back to the car, (Shane went in the boot this time!) and returned via a smeggy takeaway in Bridport, another enjoyable session in cracking company, makes you glad to be an angler sometimes. Not when it's raining and there's no fish though, just on days like these!

Be lucky

Ian

[pingu]

excellant ian,

glad you kept comfey in the front

good to see tha plaice starting to show

dave

[fishypaul]

another very entertaining report ian,love the sunset

[Twiddler]

I can ditto that, another entertaining report Ian, well done.....Max ALWAYS looks cute.

The sunset pic is awesome, might nick it as my screensaver...if i may

[dogmax]

Originally Posted by Twiddler

I can ditto that, another entertaining report Ian, well done.....Max ALWAYS looks cute.

The sunset pic is awesome, might nick it as my screensaver...if i may

knock yourself out,



That was taken at West Bexington a while ago, I like it better. Thought you'd have a Max screensaver anyway!

[maghouse]

Thats a great report ....... great pics too - love the in-car shots !

[BaggieRich]

Nice report Ian. That's got to be the best use of available space on a fishing trip I've ever seen. Glad to see the chocolate bar within easy reach though. Well, a mans gotta eat hasn't he???

[Norfolkboy]

Nice one, Ian

[Greenheart]

Great report Ian & well done on the spotty. Is that Rik Mayall in the middle back seat? Looks a bit like his character from bottom..... LOL

I think our cars may look the same on the Forum France trip in September.....

[Portland Pirate]

Nice one Ian.

You were lucky to get anything during the day at this time of year at Bex. The Spiders are terrible. I hate fishing this time of year. If you don't get a fish in 5 minutes you loose your hook length.