These are not big fish generally, being around 2.5lbs on
average but what they are lacking in size they are making up in numbers.
So with this in mind I headed down to the Eastern end of the
beach on Saturday morning, I went for the early morning shift arriving at
around 6:30 am as I knew it would get very busy later in the day. Even at this
early hour though, there were lots of anglers on the beach and I still had to
hike for 30 mins or so to find a bit of space. Conditions were pretty good with a nice sea running, although the water was clearer that I would have liked. To be honest it actually looked more bassy than Coddy and I found myself wishing I’d bought my lure gear! Still the clear water didn’t affect the fishing that much and I had bites from the off. The codling were soon coming ashore, fish typical of this year’s class, at around 2-3lbs each. I think I ended up with around 10 or so in total, most coming on fresh blow lug. Not bad for a few hours fishing but quite quiet compared to some of the bags that have been taken here recently.
Amongst the codling though I managed a lovely black bream
which was a PB by a mile, weighing in at around 2lb 10oz. I have tried for
years to catch a decent bream from Chesil so to get one at last was a real
bonus and left me feeling pretty chuffed with the session.
I packed up around mid-day, content with my mornings work
and having kept 3 cod and the bream, I had enough fish to weigh me down for
that horrible hike back across the shingle to the car park (anyone who has
fished Chesil will understand!)
There’s a couple of pics below, I’m loving my DSLR camera
but there is so much to learn, I’m taking it one step at a time however but am
determined to improve my fishy photography!
So that’s it for now, hoping to get a few more trips in
before Xmas, maybe the weather will settle down again and these will be
bass trips!
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