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.
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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.
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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 Flickr
20210803_124945[1] by gordon underwood, on Flickr
