berry head

[ritchie]

have anyone fished berry head lately as going there this weekend what fish are we to encounter down there,the spots and any info about the place

[Rat-man]

Hi mate, i fished at berry head a month ago and had a few good whiting, dogs. Its a deep water mark, not too snaggy, plenty of easy concrete and rock platforms to fish from. Theres a car park as the road gets to the head, but its a 3/4 mile walk from here, what i did was to drive thru the gate at the side of the car park, this track takes you right down thru the quarry to the waters edge. better than walkin, and payin for a ticket. Theres a good tackle shop in brixham town. There are good wrasse close in here as well.

[ritchie]

thanks rat-man, it will be the first time of going down there, well done with your catch ,did u catch them during the day or the night? cause planning to fish the night tide. out of interest could you tell me of any spots to do some spinning. is it just the normal bait or do you need anything special.
once again thanks for all info mate will post any fish that i catch for all to see (hopefuly)

[Rat-man]

I fished there at night, incoming tide. Squid/rag cocktails worked well for me. I don't know where to spin there sorry , but the british record mackerel was caught here{over 5 lb}. I forgot to say b4, i got my pb 3 b rockling here {weighed over a pound}.. If the weather gets too bad here, you can retreat to the brixham breakwater as back-up {sheltered}. good luck, look 4ward to ur report.

[ritchie]

hi mates, had a great fishing session at the head could not fish the platform as too many fisherman was there fishing,so me and my mate (fishing buddy) fish of the rocks a little bit further up, started fishing about 10.45am on saturday fished the rest of the high tide and through the low, we had lots of wrasse biggest was 2 and half pound , excellent wrasse session not had one of them for ages and during the night tide we had lots of whiting,pouting but nothing to shout about as the night went on i brought the rod in then suddenly went soild thought it was a big fish turns out to be humans (draged in other peoples lines ha ha) a great fishing trip will b going back again.

[Rat-man]

Excellent, glad you had a good sesh. I'll be going to Kingswear this week {4 miles from Berry head} so long as weather is ok , so i'm glad to hear there's wrasse about. I'm hoping for huss, so i'll report later in week.

[BILLYNOFISH]

you need to be going scabbacombe for the huss

[Rat-man]

hi mate, i've never fished scabbacombe, where can i fish there? i dont mind hiking, climbing to get there. thanks. kev.

[BILLYNOFISH]

hi mate, you need to head for combe or the memorial or on the other side you have the steps, all are very long steep walks of at least 25 mins downhill ok going its just the walk BACK UP that kills your legs, hope this helps

[Rat-man]

thaks mate, i'll give it a try on the w'end, i'll post a message how i got on..............if i recover from that hill you wrote about. i wanna beat my p.b. huss of 11lb, this sounds the place to do it.