South Coast Cogden

[squidword]

Had a sneaky little trip down to the above, armed with rag, blow lug and some frozen blacks. Started to catch odd plaice from around 5pm, managed 11 in total, few double shots but nothing very big. Once the light went, a few more species showed tub Gurnard, dab, pout, conger and a nice sole of 1lb12oz. I lost the tide fairly quickly and so the fishing died. Lost a fair few hooks to spiders, so they are still about. Overall though an enjoyable session.

 

[John Mitchell]

Nice sole mate well done

 

[Mr Fish]

Nice one mate, a good few fish there!

 

[JLD]

Some tasty looking fish there. Well done.

 

[Leginfisher]

tidy session and a tasty sole too!

 

[Emmcee75]

Cracking session there, nice one ?

 

[Tournamag]

Had a sneaky little trip down to the above, armed with rag, blow lug and some frozen blacks. Started to catch odd plaice from around 5pm, managed 11 in total, few double shots but nothing very big. Once the light went, a few more species showed tub Gurnard, dab, pout, conger and a nice sole of 1lb12oz. I lost the tide fairly quickly and so the fishing died. Lost a fair few hooks to spiders, so they are still about. Overall though an enjoyable session. View attachment 29619View attachment 29620View attachment 29621

Great catch and see you found/caught plenty of weed also! bloody stuffs everywhere of late last few places fished have been infested Southbourne had loads and Seaford also and the same yellowish crap also looks a tad like a marine version of millet?

 

[John Mitchell]

There seems to be an excess of lettuce type weed around this year , anything to do with global warming?

 

[Beach]

There seems to be an excess of lettuce type weed around this year , anything to do with global warming?

Don't worry John, the next 10,000 years we will be in the ice age. Not that I care

 

[geejayy]

interesting read, & great pics, weldone. did you do any good with the frozen black?

 

[Ollieollie]

Boodiful stuff

 

[Tournamag]

There seems to be an excess of lettuce type weed around this year , anything to do with global warming?

Lot of it is chemical run off the land with weed killers and other stuff along with trawlers ripping bottom up

 

[Wolf]

Great catches mate well done, good piccys & write up ???

 

[richtic]

Great fishing well done

 

[Live in hope]

Nice session there fella and a lovely sole. Hope it tasted good and see you were collecting the salad to go with it ?

 

[spiderfur]

Cracking session

 

[Tatunka joe]

Well done squid nice bunch of fish the size of the plaice on chisel does depress me tho hopefully there get bigger in the comeing months but cracking sole bey ???

 

[Just one last cast]

Good to see a chesil report so few on here

I too fished last night though at west bexington mind you had to walk so far to get a spot probably weren’t too far away from you at Cogden! Didn’t do so well though another blank.

As you say spiders stripping everything in 15 minutes even whole squid! A night of relentlessly rebaiting.

Started about 8pm & packed up at 2am only had 2 bites typically both at the same time around high tide 1.30 bumped off what felt like a big eel while a slack liner on the other rod had by then departed.

A guy in the car park kindly donated me some rag worms to add to my mackerel & squid. Have been trying to go lighter & further with clipped down rigs or 3 hook flappers & size 1/0 hooks but hard to commit to such while baits are being stripped. Well done on catching what rigs/hooks/bait worked for you & what sort of distance were you fishing at? Apologies for all the questions but seem to be getting nowhere last few times out!

Oh & on the plus side no weed here & managed to escape the storms on the long trek back to the car.

 

[dodders]

Nice mixed bag, well done

 

[bananas]

Wow busy session there, well done getting through the spiders and have a nice haul of fish