South Coast A quickie on a school night........

[chesilpete]

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[ouchthathurt]

Nice write up mate, shame no flatties, but it’s all information gathering! ?

 

[Tatunka joe]

Nice try Pete weird about macs think they’d be in droves by now good effort tho bey might bump into you this weekend 24 hr comp got 1 or 2 marks in mind ?

 

[wingnut55]

Great report Pete, it will happen sooner or later.

Ian.

 

[Mr Fish]

I popped out with a few very sticky left over blacks to look at another bit of Chesil and to get some Mackerel for the freezer, I am still looking for the flats which everyone from the darkside will know are actually my favourite things to fish for.

For sure I love hauling a cod out in a gale and I love trying to outwit a big bass and both of those species do excite me but if you fish Chesil extensively then flats are about from March to November, and chilling out on the last 3 miles of west Chesil on some comfy shingle doing a bit of long range technical angling and deploying thoughts and tactics I find massively fulfilling, its trying to predict the unpredictable and personally I find it addictive and also love to eat a fat flatty!.

So in a nutshell I have not caught a plaice in 110 rod hours.

I have caught a shedload of other nice fish but where are my bloody plaice! others have had a few including a bloke only 100 yards from me last weekend!.

So I rolled the dice and went 500m further up the beach........... result no plaice!.

The conditions were perfect, the rigs work, bait certainly a vintage dungie black that still slaps up has worked best for me for years SO the conclusion is they were not there.
Just to add a little more misery neither were the mackerel so 2 hours solid feathering yielded zero maks.

As dusk arrived I got one medium sole, a smut of about 5lb and pouting.

I switched one rod over to a pouting live bait (it was a 5oz pouting) which got smashed but no hookup. I have no regrets in this case I have been having discussions with other forum members and I am looking for a double not smaller bass because I have not had one for a while now and the big girls do like a big live bait.

I was pestered by straps the entire session (5.5 hours).

So for me an interesting session........ I know the big bags of flats will not come from this section and that we will need to go the other way when we next fish.

I also can pretty much say that when the wind switches North that the chances of Maks down West do get less.

I can also say that the bass on Chesil will be looking for pout when there are no Maks available, all good useful information to me.

So onto the weekend lets see if I can finally end the plaice drought and find a few........ I am missing them!.

Good effort but yep, it’s been a weird year.

@Ollieollie said he doesn’t mind ‘going the other way’ at the next meet

 

[chesilpete]

Nice try Pete weird about macs think they’d be in droves by now good effort tho bey might bump into you this weekend 24 hr comp got 1 or 2 marks in mind ?

I am out Sunday from 6pm.

 

[Ollieollie]

Nice one Pete!! You’ll find them soon I’m sure

 

[Espadon jim]

I popped out with a few very sticky left over blacks to look at another bit of Chesil and to get some Mackerel for the freezer, I am still looking for the flats which everyone from the darkside will know are actually my favourite things to fish for.

For sure I love hauling a cod out in a gale and I love trying to outwit a big bass and both of those species do excite me but if you fish Chesil extensively then flats are about from March to November, and chilling out on the last 3 miles of west Chesil on some comfy shingle doing a bit of long range technical angling and deploying thoughts and tactics I find massively fulfilling, its trying to predict the unpredictable and personally I find it addictive and also love to eat a fat flatty!.

So in a nutshell I have not caught a plaice in 110 rod hours.

I have caught a shedload of other nice fish but where are my bloody plaice! others have had a few including a bloke only 100 yards from me last weekend!.

So I rolled the dice and went 500m further up the beach........... result no plaice!.

The conditions were perfect, the rigs work, bait certainly a vintage dungie black that still slaps up has worked best for me for years SO the conclusion is they were not there.
Just to add a little more misery neither were the mackerel so 2 hours solid feathering yielded zero maks.

As dusk arrived I got one medium sole, a smut of about 5lb and pouting.

I switched one rod over to a pouting live bait (it was a 5oz pouting) which got smashed but no hookup. I have no regrets in this case I have been having discussions with other forum members and I am looking for a double not smaller bass because I have not had one for a while now and the big girls do like a big live bait.

I was pestered by straps the entire session (5.5 hours).

So for me an interesting session........ I know the big bags of flats will not come from this section and that we will need to go the other way when we next fish.

I also can pretty much say that when the wind switches North that the chances of Maks down West do get less.

I can also say that the bass on Chesil will be looking for pout when there are no Maks available, all good useful information to me.

So onto the weekend lets see if I can finally end the plaice drought and find a few........ I am missing them!.

Sorry to hear you had no flats they are my main target to, if its any consolation i drifted of chesel further east than you for 4-6 hours this week
with all the right bait and not had a nibble from a flat. Loads of Gurnard and Bream and like you no mackeral.
Strange as i would normaly exspect to catch at least 5 or six Plaice on the ground i was covering.
I will not give up i must get some its the better halfs favorite fish and so much fun on my spinning rod.
Tight lines for your next trip.
Espadon

 

[Tatunka joe]

I am out Sunday from 6pm.

I shall have my head firmly up my ass at that time bud ????

 

[Trampster]

I popped out with a few very sticky left over blacks to look at another bit of Chesil and to get some Mackerel for the freezer, I am still looking for the flats which everyone from the darkside will know are actually my favourite things to fish for.

For sure I love hauling a cod out in a gale and I love trying to outwit a big bass and both of those species do excite me but if you fish Chesil extensively then flats are about from March to November, and chilling out on the last 3 miles of west Chesil on some comfy shingle doing a bit of long range technical angling and deploying thoughts and tactics I find massively fulfilling, its trying to predict the unpredictable and personally I find it addictive and also love to eat a fat flatty!.

So in a nutshell I have not caught a plaice in 110 rod hours.

I have caught a shedload of other nice fish but where are my bloody plaice! others have had a few including a bloke only 100 yards from me last weekend!.

So I rolled the dice and went 500m further up the beach........... result no plaice!.

The conditions were perfect, the rigs work, bait certainly a vintage dungie black that still slaps up has worked best for me for years SO the conclusion is they were not there.
Just to add a little more misery neither were the mackerel so 2 hours solid feathering yielded zero maks.

As dusk arrived I got one medium sole, a smut of about 5lb and pouting.

I switched one rod over to a pouting live bait (it was a 5oz pouting) which got smashed but no hookup. I have no regrets in this case I have been having discussions with other forum members and I am looking for a double not smaller bass because I have not had one for a while now and the big girls do like a big live bait.

I was pestered by straps the entire session (5.5 hours).

So for me an interesting session........ I know the big bags of flats will not come from this section and that we will need to go the other way when we next fish.

I also can pretty much say that when the wind switches North that the chances of Maks down West do get less.

I can also say that the bass on Chesil will be looking for pout when there are no Maks available, all good useful information to me.

So onto the weekend lets see if I can finally end the plaice drought and find a few........ I am missing them!.

Full marks for trying Pete. Like you, I love to see a flatty or a few Mackerel in the pan at the end of a dangle, but neither seem to be about. The nearest place I stand a chance of a Flatty is Beesands/Slapton, which is a 3 hour round trip, and unless I hear someone is catching, I'm not investing that much fuel & time for a blank. It's a very strange year.

 

[Shirleycodlin]

Great report Pete

 

[bananas]

Nice report Pete, shame the spotted ones didn't show for you this time, but well done on the fish you had and the information that you have mentioned

 

[Si-fly]

Unlucky Pete, shame no flats.... Not sure I'll ever get to Chesil this year looking at catches so far!.... Think ill head Wales next for some new marks.... Just seems so much more productive over there. ?