| #1  06-02-2010, 11:29 AM | ||||
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| gj's holiday marathon fish i was mad keen yesty and made a start way too early and arrived at seatown, just west of west bay. about 3pm, at low water, despite it drizzleing when i left home the south coast was dry and the winds favorable. view east-  veiw west-  that left me about 6-7 hours to kill till high tide and darkness, which is when i'd guess my targets of ray and huss might show, but seeing as i was on the beach i may as well chuck out some scratching rigs while i was there, 3 hook flappers & wishbones were baited and cast forth. bait wise i had frozen mackerel, squid, sandeel, pealer crab, + some fresh ragworm i'd picked up in west bay. bites were just occasional with both the first two captures being good old dogfish but next was a better result with a starrey smoothound homeing in on the ragworm bait.  it was only a small one of around 3-4lb but they are definately preferable to dogfish. i fished on through the afternoon which was only punctuated by the occasional dogfish the venue was starting to bore me , there were increaseing numbers of people arriveing to fish and i had a fair ammount of bait so i wasn't worried about the carpark gates getting locked at 21.00. i would have stayed all night. but what did bother me was that i'd packed no food , so i left for some scran at west bay about 19.30 i'd got bored of seatown , probably should have returned for the best of high water but instead went to one of my favorite beaches - burton bradstock. started about 20.30, and the onslaught of dogfish continued this beach has been good to me on the ebb in the past and i was quite happy to fish it right down here. the next fish of interest was , i think, a specimen fish, so unusually big from the shore, around southampton anyway, i just had to weigh it and take a piccy-  1lb 8 oz of jumbo pouting anythings better than dogfish. just before low water a big double knock signalled somethingelse other that dogfish, attacking the last of my frozen crabs a quick strike and a short battle and in comes my first ' bar of silver' for the year , better than the 6'' checkers like i usually do.  3lb 8oz, quit the beach at 3am as out of bait. after 12 hours fishing __________________ beer so many venues, so little time.     |
| #2 06-02-2010, 12:11 PM | ||||
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| Re: gj's holiday marathon fish Lovely job Gord, thats a nice brown bream - more typical of the ones from the boat off Weymouth ! A Bass to cap it all off too  Great session and a good mixed bag __________________ Shore Species 2012: Dab-Flounder-Herring-L.S.Dogfish-Pouting-Shore Rockling-5 Bearded Rockling-Small Eyed Ray-Turbot-Whiting |
| #3 06-02-2010, 06:01 PM | ||||
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 Re: gj's holiday marathon fish Nice way to round the holiday mate. Good mixture of species too... __________________ Don't Judge My Path If You Haven't Walked My Journey... |
| #4 06-02-2010, 07:38 PM | ||||
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| Re: gj's holiday marathon fish Your sessions are certainly getting better mate __________________ If Everyday things are getting you down & stressing you out, Think like a Dog, If it cant be Eaten or Humped, Piss on it and walk away.. |
| #7 06-03-2010, 01:42 PM | ||||
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| Re: gj's holiday marathon fish getting better there gordon 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 |
| #8 06-03-2010, 03:11 PM | ||||
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| Re: gj's holiday marathon fish Nice spikey Gordon, after a slow start it's turning into a decent year! |
