South Coast hmmmn, chesil again.

[geejayy]

02.08.21. chesil . fried. 20.30-1300ish

with a very small tide choice seemed to be hurst shingle or back to chesil. recent rough made me think weed may be a prob along hurst so went back to chesil yet again.

plan was cogden, but when i got there carpark machine bust and i was unable/willing to pay by phone, just a small thing but it doesnt take much to put me off a venue , could see it was a little busy down there so went back to portland, betwixed landing craft and checkpoint this time.

conditions- flat calm, no wind, dry saw no moon till just b4 dawn. (last 1/4). high tide about midnight. odd raft of weed about drifting by on tide but not a problem.

baits squid,lug,sandeel, fresh scad/mackerel .
rigs pulley/ up n over/ 3 hooks flapping.

flicked the feathers for a mackerel or two but failed. caught an eel on the bottom which did what eels do.

*20210802_214102[1] by gordon underwood, on Flickr

and at last light i picked up a scad on the feathers.
after that it was slow and boring.

* 20210802_230151[1] by gordon underwood, on Flickr

caught a titchy huss at some point. & a couple more eels. was feeling worn out by dawn, was planning on leaving but a flick about with some feathers found me 4 mackerel and so i fished on with fresh bait. not much doing, fell asleep.

woke to find the sun blazing into my bivvy , rebaited and got aon my r/h rod which translated into a nice bream. but unfortunately there were no more . got home to find i had been a little sunburnt.

20210803_114830[1] by gordon underwood, on Flickr20210803_124945[1] by gordon underwood, on Flickr

 

[Mr Fish]

Good effort Gordon!

Is the Cogden machine still Natural Trust? I thought if it was broken, you just got a free day?

 

[Tatunka joe]

Good effort mate it’s starting to come to life one of our juniors and his dad done 20 hrs there yesterday had 9 Species inc loads of gurnard scad macs 12 bream and all the night time norms recon next sesh your smash it bey

 

[ouchthathurt]

Well done fella, enjoyable report. You got some species under your belt. ?

 

[chesilpete]

Chesil has been pretty sh1te but the old girls slowly picking up, nice report.

 

[bananas]

Sounds a bit of a slow one, but well done on the fish and the bream

 

[geejayy]

Good effort Gordon!

Is the Cogden machine still Natural Trust? I thought if it was broken, you just got a free day?

aye, all covered up but a big sign next to it saying pay by phone, download app etc, too much hassle for me.

 

[Mr Fish]

aye, all covered up but a big sign next to it saying pay by phone, download app etc, too much hassle for me.

Yea that’s not good. I’ve got the main Dorset app but don’t know what that one is now