| #1  08-12-2008, 07:24 AM | ||||
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| Shoreham Beach - 11th August 08 Fished a small Shoreham club match last night, catch and release style, on Shoreham beach. After the recent strong winds the sea was quite lumpy, weedy and had a small amount of colour in it. Basically the fishing was pretty poor, I caught a couple of small schoolie bass and four very small hounds but the highlight for me was half through the match I had a small bite (had been getting plenty of them), left it for a few minutes, it kept tapping away then I had another bite which a good bite for a change. Reeled into find this nice little 42cm codling on the end along with a very small hound on the other hook. Sorry about the crap pics but had to get it measured and witnessed and didnt want to keep it out of the water for to long.   The fish took peeler crab and was promptly returned to grow bigger. On the chart we use a 42cm codling is estimated to weigh 740 grams .... 1lb 10oz ish ? Other fish that turned up in the match were decent eels, small flatties and a mullet of almost 2lb were caught ... no money for me  There was also another codling caught on a pier nearby yesterday as well so maybe there will be a few around this year .... and its another species      |
| #2 08-12-2008, 07:51 AM | ||||
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| Re: Shoreham Beach - 11th August 08 Sounds a good match with a codling thrown in to  __________________ Richard|Sea Fishing |Carp Fishing| Spud Gun | Zander fishing | Fishing Reports | Hunting Reports |
| #3 08-12-2008, 10:29 AM | ||||
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| Re: Shoreham Beach - 11th August 08 very nice fish...and in august? i dont expect to see them around in mid-summer although we hacent really been having mid- summer weather __________________ "Alright Jack, we all ready to fish?" "Yeah!" "Did you bring the rods?" "Errmmm...." |
| #4 08-12-2008, 01:20 PM | ||||
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 Re: Shoreham Beach - 11th August 08 Nice bonus fish Lewis. Just hope that bodes well for the winter codling run. Well done mate...... __________________ Don't Judge My Path If You Haven't Walked My Journey... |
| #5 08-12-2008, 04:47 PM | ||||
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| Re: Shoreham Beach - 11th August 08 nice one there  dave __________________ www.exmouthsaa.co.uk 24 beers in a case and 24 hours in a day simples You won't know unless you go :D...and if you do go!! please let us know :D as thats how the forum thrives |
| #6 08-12-2008, 05:10 PM | ||||
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| Re: Shoreham Beach - 11th August 08 Nice report mate and well done on the codling.....a nice little surprise catch that one!! good to hear there was another one caught yesterday not to far from shoreham.....id expect there may be a one or two more caught when this wind dies down! Well done again and unlucky for not hitting the money. |
| #7 08-14-2008, 11:42 AM | ||||
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| Re: Shoreham Beach - 11th August 08 Just a quick one .... fished Worthing Pier today and had another codling on crab ...  Saw another 2 caught as well and I lost a good fish which felt like a better codling. |
| #8 08-14-2008, 12:02 PM | ||||
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| Re: Shoreham Beach - 11th August 08 welll done again! cod starting to move in early maybe? __________________ "Alright Jack, we all ready to fish?" "Yeah!" "Did you bring the rods?" "Errmmm...." |
| #9 08-14-2008, 12:18 PM | ||||
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| Re: Shoreham Beach - 11th August 08 Quote:
hopefully its a sign that it maybe another good year for them. Normally they arrive around here early september and stay until November but this year there seems to have been a few more around than at this stage last year and last year turned out to be a reasonable year for them by our standards.  |
| #10 08-14-2008, 12:22 PM | ||||
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| Re: Shoreham Beach - 11th August 08 lets hope so! the stocks have been slowly rising again since reduced quotas etc came into place. hers hoping for a double figure this year! __________________ "Alright Jack, we all ready to fish?" "Yeah!" "Did you bring the rods?" "Errmmm...." |
