South East Widewater lagoon.

[Emmcee75]

Fancied another session on the plaice. Was seriously considering a drive to west chesil but with plenty of plaice being caught at Brighton/shoreham etc I decided on the shorter journey for me. Got to the beach with a good few hours before high tide. Set up and cast out, one rod a loop rig with size 1's and ghe other a bagnall bar rig with 1/0 hoping for a better size plaice. Both rods with rolling leads. Scanning the water and I notice a black flag some way out, then another. Standing up and looking left and right there was a string of nets from shoreham to Worthing, my heart sank and thought I'd be wasting my time. 2 hrs to high and good pull down on my loop rig and 36cm plaice comes up the shingle, was happy with that. It was slow going but ended up with 3 plaice with the 36cm being the biggest and 2 flounder. Been sea fishing just over 4yrs now and that's my first flounder so well chuffed with that. I fished 3 down and called it a day.




For some strange reason I had decided mid session at widewater to head to aldwick/bognor for a midnight Ray session. There had been a few caught on the last set of springs so I fancied a crack at it. Well to say I made a very bad choice would be an understatement. Got there in good time and set up, both rods on up and overs with squid, bluey, sandeel combo's. I fished until 3-30am when the cold finally got the better of me and the fact I'd only had a couple of whiting rattles on the rod tops. You can't catch all the time and I was happy enough with my day session at widewater, although I am still trying to figure out why I didn't just fish a night session there ?. Answers on a postcard if you know haha.
Tight lines.

 

[Stevie69]

Well done on the catch I can't wait to get out again.

 

[Trampster]

Great report and nice photos EmmCee! Well done on the Plaice.
A lot of folk I watch on Youtube have been (rightly) moaning about the inshore nets on parts of the Southeast coast - they are a bleddy nuisance.
We had a similar problem with strings of linked 'pots' close in on one local mark. I was told they were 'special' pots to catch Wrasse for live export up to the Scottish Salmon farms. Been a lot of that going on down here.

 

[Wolf]

Nice catch mate well done,great piccys, report made good reading.??????

 

[Shirleycodlin]

Great pictures and catch report ?

 

[Allthegearnoidea73]

You did the right thing….as per usual Chesil is over rated…..and it’s living up to it at the west end…..2 days at it for nothing…I’ve seen 1 plaice caught in tow days at Cogden ?‍

 

[Emmcee75]

You did the right thing….as per usual Chesil is over rated…..and it’s living up to it at the west end…..2 days at it for nothing…I’ve seen 1 plaice caught in tow days at Cogden ?‍

Blimey that is slow going. Unlucky regarding fish but fair play for sticking at it.

 

[Bass&Chips]

Great plan A, shame about plan B but there's always next time.

 

[Beach]

Lancing through to Pagham beach is slow fishing at the mo, similar at Tidemills, Seaford area. Hopefully be better at the end of the month.

 

[Tatunka joe]

Butey of a sesh bey ?

 

[bananas]

Well done on the plaice and the first flounder too

 

[Goateeblank]

Well done on the flounder. Shame about the nets. I suppose that happens every year?