dodders
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With Chesil generally fishing well at the moment I couldn’t wait to get back and arranged to pick up Bananas en-route. Quality ragworm collected from Abbotsbury tackle along with a few fresh blacks and some frozen squid.
We got to the car park at Ferrybridge just after 1 pm which gave us the last couple of hours of the ebb and the flood to fish.
We had a particular spot in mind which may have had something to do with John getting a triggerfish there last week! As is often the case someone was just setting off before us and they seemed to be heading for the exact same spot! No problem as the beach here was empty apart from the three of us.
We both started off with 3 hook rigs with small hooks and ragworm hoping to snare a red mullet, and within a short time bob was shouting that he had one!
I had to wait about an hour for my first bite which resulted in a nice black bream.
And that was it for most of the day for both of us.
I think we had both given up hope but were still recasting with fresh baits regularly as they were often being stripped by spiders (I thought they had gone)
Midway through the flood I did manage a red mullet following a series of missed rattly bites.
There were a few shoals of mackerel thrashing about near the shore and I managed to catch a couple of those on a spinner to relieve the monotony of staring at static rod tips.
We had initially thought of fishing till high water which would have been an hour into darkness, but we both agreed at 8pm that we would have one last cast as nothing was happening.
Both started to pack away gear and finally pull in rods. I pulled in what felt like a lump of weed which turned into a nice black bream and the other rod which again had shown no sign of movement pulled in another red mullet!
What a difference a few days makes. I guess that for whatever reason the fish were just not on the feed. Contrast a couple of weeks ago when the bream were smashing the rod tip over and yesterday when I didn’t even notice a bite. The chap just up from us only seemed to get one fish, although it did seem a bit trigger shaped. There were several anglers a few hundred yards away – I hope they were more successful than us !
We got to the car park at Ferrybridge just after 1 pm which gave us the last couple of hours of the ebb and the flood to fish.
We had a particular spot in mind which may have had something to do with John getting a triggerfish there last week! As is often the case someone was just setting off before us and they seemed to be heading for the exact same spot! No problem as the beach here was empty apart from the three of us.
We both started off with 3 hook rigs with small hooks and ragworm hoping to snare a red mullet, and within a short time bob was shouting that he had one!
I had to wait about an hour for my first bite which resulted in a nice black bream.
And that was it for most of the day for both of us.
I think we had both given up hope but were still recasting with fresh baits regularly as they were often being stripped by spiders (I thought they had gone)
Midway through the flood I did manage a red mullet following a series of missed rattly bites.
There were a few shoals of mackerel thrashing about near the shore and I managed to catch a couple of those on a spinner to relieve the monotony of staring at static rod tips.
We had initially thought of fishing till high water which would have been an hour into darkness, but we both agreed at 8pm that we would have one last cast as nothing was happening.
Both started to pack away gear and finally pull in rods. I pulled in what felt like a lump of weed which turned into a nice black bream and the other rod which again had shown no sign of movement pulled in another red mullet!
What a difference a few days makes. I guess that for whatever reason the fish were just not on the feed. Contrast a couple of weeks ago when the bream were smashing the rod tip over and yesterday when I didn’t even notice a bite. The chap just up from us only seemed to get one fish, although it did seem a bit trigger shaped. There were several anglers a few hundred yards away – I hope they were more successful than us !
