Chale Friday 30th

[Davey]

The weather being so warm and calm I couldn't resist going down Chale, in the hope of a Ray. So arrived at the carpark just gone 6.30pm Met up with Paul and took the climb down and long trudge along the shingle.
Lighty and Bill were already fishing, but with very big tides we had to move further along to find a spot where the tide wouldn't reach the cliffs.
Was set up by 7.30pm bait was mackerel, squid and sandeel. Twenty minutes after casting out I had a take on whole squid and the first fish was in, a strap conger of just under 3lb.



Half hour later whilst baiting up one rod I had a good slack line bite on the other and was convinced it was a ray, instead a huge Pout came in.
Well the pout continued to come in on a regular basis. I had my Bass rod out and eventually after a couple of missed runs I connected to a good fish, which proceeded to almost double the rod then spat the hook, felt a good fish.

Just gone midnight I had another good run on the bass rod and this time It was landed and went 6lb 13ozs.



Had a few more runs which were missed but eventually I managed this one, probably around 3lb.



As soon as the tide turned at 2am the bites stopped, no more Bass and even the pout were few and far between, Paul and I fished on till 5am then packed up Lighty and Bill had already gone when we got back to where they had been, so don't know how they done.
All fish were returned.

[MRG2000]

Nice fishing Davey ,a couple of cracking Bass ....

[Spinner64]

Cracking Bass Davey! Well done

[chazyboi]

minter of a bass buddy nice one

[Sam Fuller]

Davey, you have a knack of coming up with the goods. Well done

SF

[mininewts]

lovely pair of Bass there mate! stuff i only seem to be able to dream of!!!

[10lber]

Couple of great pieces of silverware there davey
What did you get them on. Was it the mackerel? Have you ever used the live pout tactic down chale way?. I'm coming back to the island in october and i'll be opposite hurst castle area fishing for a week. I've had a couple of bass from here and normally fish big baits close in to the rotten pier (up from the harbour towards freshwater.Not the main pier you can walk on) and i normally fish a rod out further with rag and keep getting small pouting.
Been thinking of trying a floatfished live pouting this time.Whaddya reckon. Waste of time or worth the effort?
Well done for the catch and release by the way

[chris.oldgit]

great catch well done

[Davey]

Originally Posted by 10lber

Couple of great pieces of silverware there davey
What did you get them on. Was it the mackerel? Have you ever used the live pout tactic down chale way?. I'm coming back to the island in october and i'll be opposite hurst castle area fishing for a week. I've had a couple of bass from here and normally fish big baits close in to the rotten pier (up from the harbour towards freshwater.Not the main pier you can walk on) and i normally fish a rod out further with rag and keep getting small pouting.
Been thinking of trying a floatfished live pouting this time.Whaddya reckon. Waste of time or worth the effort?
Well done for the catch and release by the way

Yes quite often use pout as live bait, though think it works better o the bottom rather than float fished. All my Bass came to mackerel head.

[pingu]

good fishing there again

dave