South Coast Chesil!!

[Wattsy6b]

So plan was with the weather we have had this last week to go to chesil and try and pull some cod out. So I had work until 3 and got a result and was sent home at 2. Packed the bait in the van and off to chesil I go. On the phone to @chesilpete on the way down there the plan was Abbotsbury. So pit stop at the farmshop for a pie and off to Abbotsbury we go. Arrived to a reasonable sea with not too much wind maybe 10mph. We got walking and the wind started picking up so thought it could be a fun session for getting battered by chesil. But got over the bank and it wasn't too bad. The wind kept picking up and then dropping throughout the session. Armed with my new weapon I sent some frozen blacks out as far as I could. And the same with my other rod. My ttr was the first rod in with a codling. So jumped too if another frozen black sausage belted out there. C curve came in with a codling. Great start. As the sea wasn't really bad Pete was trying different bait closer in hoping for a bass. Which I must say was definitely worth a shout. I however wanted to bag some cod so kept at it with frozen blacks and putting some crab out aswell if things slowed down. In the end I think the total was 7-4 on the codling with some straps and pout and dogs chucked in too. I have too say that I have been very lucky too have met @chesilpete and have listened to what he has told with everything from rods to reels rigs and line. Amazing guy to fish with. And I'm lucky I fish with him most weeks.

 

[Emmcee75]

Great result and a good read. Good fishing both?

 

[John Mitchell]

Good report and well done on the codling

 

[J Richards]

Nice report mate. Glad you found the cod… @chesilpete is a legend (albeit old one)? always a good session with him for sure.

 

[Reevsey]

Nice haul there well done . Pete's a nice fella n a top fisherman with a shed load of knowledge on chesil . Looks like we could be in for a good autumn's fishing .

 

[Goateeblank]

Loadsacod. Good stuff.

 

[chesilpete]

So plan was with the weather we have had this last week to go to chesil and try and pull some cod out. So I had work until 3 and got a result and was sent home at 2. Packed the bait in the van and off to chesil I go. On the phone to @chesilpete on the way down there the plan was Abbotsbury. So pit stop at the farmshop for a pie and off to Abbotsbury we go. Arrived to a reasonable sea with not too much wind maybe 10mph. We got walking and the wind started picking up so thought it could be a fun session for getting battered by chesil. But got over the bank and it wasn't too bad. The wind kept picking up and then dropping throughout the session. Armed with my new weapon I sent some frozen blacks out as far as I could. And the same with my other rod. My ttr was the first rod in with a codling. So jumped too if another frozen black sausage belted out there. C curve came in with a codling. Great start. As the sea wasn't really bad Pete was trying different bait closer in hoping for a bass. Which I must say was definitely worth a shout. I however wanted to bag some cod so kept at it with frozen blacks and putting some crab out aswell if things slowed down. In the end I think the total was 7-4 on the codling with some straps and pout and dogs chucked in too. I have too say that I have been very lucky too have met @chesilpete and have listened to what he has told with everything from rods to reels rigs and line. Amazing guy to fish with. And I'm lucky I fish with him most weeks.

Nice one Tom..... the highlight was watching Ted struggling back across the shingle with that jumbo pout he had caught.... that and the pic of the ones we kept, filleted.
Stargazy pie Chesil style!
And we lobbed some small ones back!

 

[chesilpete]

Nice report mate. Glad you found the cod… @chesilpete is a legend (albeit old one)? always a good session with him for sure.

Old! I bloody am..... but if I am going to drop dead anywhere soon
...
happy to check out on the shingle! Just roll me in!!

 

[bananas]

Well done on a tidy Cod haul.

 

[Trampster]

Well done Wattsy, and Pete! Nice reports from both of ya & well done on the Coddies! ????

 

[DJDBazzer]

Nice one Tom..... the highlight was watching Ted struggling back across the shingle with that jumbo pout he had caught.... that and the pic of the ones we kept, filleted.
Stargazy pie Chesil style!
And we lobbed some small ones back!
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Fillet and release

 

[chesilpete]

Fillet and release

its the best environmental way.... the foxes will take the carcasses the black back gulls the heads n guts......

 

[DJDBazzer]

its the best environmental way.... the foxes will take the carcasses the black back gulls the heads n guts......

100%. I'll never buy from the supermarket again. I was chatting to an Asian lady on Chesil last year and she was shocked that I wasn't keeping the head and carcass too. She uses them to make a fish stock, wasting none of it at all.