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South Coast Chesil Sat eve.

Great effort and at least you got the flattie targets but still slow isn’t it?

No mackerel showing I guess?
 
Nice plaice and sole??
 
Good effort Pete, and the elusive Plaice as well, bargain. (y)

Ian.
 
Your having a few fish that's the most important thing I'm reading about a lot of anglers blanking at the mo
 
Good effort both.
Glad to hear the spiders have died off.
Think I will give it a couple of weeks then hit it hard. Like you said could do with a good mash up.
 
nearly70ty said:
Your having a few fish that's the most important thing I'm reading about a lot of anglers blanking at the mo
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I think it would be hard to blank on Chesil although I have done it!.
I have blanked on other beaches this year in Hampshire and West Sussex.
I think the difference this year is that like the above report we have had good single fish sessions and a few really good sessions but not many average sessions.
Chesil because of its coverage in Media generally is pretty much an open book, but over the last 3 years we have definitely seen a huge drop in mackerel numbers, a big drop in undulates (although I do wonder whether these two things are linked) and a mega increase in nuisance species like straps and pout.
The straps are an absolute curse they will take any bait targeting the quality species at any range and one evening I walked off after 12 consecutive casts and 12 straps.
Saturday we watched big shoals of whitebait moving freely along the beach and not getting attacked by anything which in August is a real strange one.
I think our year is always defined in the period between September and December, this is the time when Chesil can be the best beach in the UK you have to be organised and watch the weather systems carefully, be prepared to stand there in pouring rain trying to get 200g of lead 80 yards and you have to have found some decent bait.
Then theres the timing its unlikely that the correct 4 hours will happen on a Saturday evening at 8pm!!!!!!!!!!!

We are pretty much desperate for a blow......... it does not matter when it hits we will be there and those sessions will define our year.

I am not usually jealous of the Americans but a small slice of their current hurricane maybe 60mph for a couple of hours would be bloody nice!.
 
chesilpete said:
I think it would be hard to blank on Chesil although I have done it!.
I have blanked on other beaches this year in Hampshire and West Sussex.
I think the difference this year is that like the above report we have had good single fish sessions and a few really good sessions but not many average sessions.
Chesil because of its coverage in Media generally is pretty much an open book, but over the last 3 years we have definitely seen a huge drop in mackerel numbers, a big drop in undulates (although I do wonder whether these two things are linked) and a mega increase in nuisance species like straps and pout.
The straps are an absolute curse they will take any bait targeting the quality species at any range and one evening I walked off after 12 consecutive casts and 12 straps.
Saturday we watched big shoals of whitebait moving freely along the beach and not getting attacked by anything which in August is a real strange one.
I think our year is always defined in the period between September and December, this is the time when Chesil can be the best beach in the UK you have to be organised and watch the weather systems carefully, be prepared to stand there in pouring rain trying to get 200g of lead 80 yards and you have to have found some decent bait.
Then theres the timing its unlikely that the correct 4 hours will happen on a Saturday evening at 8pm!!!!!!!!!!!

We are pretty much desperate for a blow......... it does not matter when it hits we will be there and those sessions will define our year.

I am not usually jealous of the Americans but a small slice of their current hurricane maybe 60mph for a couple of hours would be bloody nice!.
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Too true..
Although i fish certain wrecks that normally hold cod just off shore from chesil they are also nowhere to be seen. The mack situation is the same off shore with it being a struggle to get any live baits. The shore fishing has been better than wrecking so far this year. We had a strange early session on sunday, our jigs would not reach the bottom as small bass were consistent and starving!
Bring on the south westerlies
 

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