Chesil 1/12

[Angrybear]

All my best sessions have been on a rising tide with high 2-3 hours in to darkness, usually gone dead again by 2 hours down.
I like a reasonable bit of wave as well.

I remember an RAF Championship match at Abbotsbury, so rough I wouldn't have bothered if pleasure fishing,
but it was a fish a chuck if you could get them through the surf.

 

[Mr Fish]

This is very true, being local is a massive advantage, once you've sussed the feeding times, you can just pop down for a few hours, catch some nice fish, jobs a good un. I'm sure I'm as guilty as everyone else, make a long day of it because of the drive, feeding time arrives but your half burnt/destroyed/drunk/sleepy... delete as appropriate end up totally missing the feeding window. I've fished chesil for 40 plus years and 90% of the time can predict what will be caught and when, being friendly with the locals helps, I was lucky in that a couple of old boys very generously took me under their wing and shared 70+ years of experiences with me. The locals still blank, not very often, but it happens to the best of us.

Indeed. I’ve got the contacts but it’s not always feasible to fish when completely ideal, as you know.
Tbh more than eight hours these days is too much for me so I’d rather do a six hour sesh even with the drive than be down there 12-16 hours and just get too tired/burnt out.
Kipping on the shingle in a half tent, nah, feck that…

 

[chesilpete]

You gotta fish to the conditions on Chesil.... sometimes the plans good but you have to adapt sometimes.

 

[Shirleycodlin]

You gotta fish to the conditions on Chesil.... sometimes the plans good but you have to adapt sometimes.

I think the same can be applied to all venues?
It's always the same faces on the same venues who do well, and rightly so.
It's down to experience, knowledge, skill and a dedication to the craft.

 

[chesilpete]

I think the same can be applied to all venues?
It's always the same faces on the same venues who do well, and rightly so.
It's down to experience, knowledge, skill and a dedication to the craft.

I am sure many of us watch Wayne on YouTube.... it's so interesting to see his tactics evolve over a year and it's paying off for him slowly.... I enjoy watching him now.
There's real evolution there, last year it was all distance and frozen blacks..... now rigs and multi baits.
I have seen so many anglers actually copying his tactics he's having a positive impact locally and I enjoy his vids.

 

[Cwab]

I think the same can be applied to all venues?
It's always the same faces on the same venues who do well, and rightly so.
It's down to experience, knowledge, skill and a dedication to the craft.

Can only catch what’s in front of you and there be da trick. IMO.

 

[Shirleycodlin]

Can only catch what’s in front of you and there be da trick. IMO.

Whiting

 

[Cwab]

Whiting

Nothing for me on Monday night, but rather that than the y-ting, guess i was again in wrong place at wrong time.

 

[squidword]

I am sure many of us watch Wayne on YouTube.... it's so interesting to see his tactics evolve over a year and it's paying off for him slowly.... I enjoy watching him now.
There's real evolution there, last year it was all distance and frozen blacks..... now rigs and multi baits.
I have seen so many anglers actually copying his tactics he's having a positive impact locally and I enjoy his vids.

Wayne has many years of Chesil experience behind him, glad to hear he's still putting the hours in on the shingle. I haven't spoken to him for quite a few years now but have had some good sessions together back in the day. One beautiful calm winters day he landed 3 x 6lb codling in 3 casts and me having a 4lb plaice on a 5/0 swallowed out of sight, followed by a 6lb codling on a piece of blue tube on my second hook, hit it on the retrieve, goes to show they hunt by sight. Good times.....