Fished Chesil tonight

Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:41 pm

hiya to all,

just thought that i would share our fishing results with you from chesil beach at west bay tonight 04-01-07....... and caught nil!!!!!!!

the conditions where choppy but not to rough with a good high tide at 1905
we fished from 1500 untill 2100 and used 2 hook flapper rigs but with no result un fortunately

bites where hard to detect due to the choppy sea and the rod tips going bezerk with the current but all in all was still a good night out

Guest

A bad days fishing is better than a good day at work! I really must get down to Chesil and have a go. The last time I was there was on a geography field trip when I was at school and we measured and mapped the inlines of the beach-snore! Whats the bass fishing like in the summer?

Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:12 pm

bass this summer is my next project !!!!!!! lol

only took up fishing last july and am learning as i go but am getting there slowly.

bad day fishing but it was still a very enjoyable evening trying and to tell the truth we where not even that cold which was suprising, due to all the rain we havnt been out lately (soft) so was good to get the hooks wet for a few hours

Guest

Well, when you catch some bass off chesil, give me a shout and I'll come down!! :lol: :lol:

Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:19 pm

i will and it would be a pleasure to meet you

i promise to have a large flask of coffee!!!!!!

Guest

B****r the flask, there'll never be a flask big enough. I'll bring the stove and 5 litres of water!! :lol: :lol:

Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:41 pm

we where contimplating buying a stove etc as it would obviously provide good hot drinks all night however didnt fancy carrying yet more kit up over chesil bank!!!

not so bad at west bay or west bexington but near portland the chesil bank is a killer to climb with the kit that we take already let alone carrying more kit and extra water!!!!!

between 2 of us we already carry

taclkle box
shelter
rods
stands
day sack
bucket and more ................

i love my hot drinks on a cold night but not as much as a cold beer on getting home lol

Guest

Get yourself a coleman sportster. It'll burn coleman fuel or unleaded (much cheaper - 85p a litre opposed to £4.99 a half litre) and at Orford we were making tea for three and a litre and a half lasted all night with some to spare. Get a copper bottomed whistling kettle and it will boil in about 6 minutes. The other advantage is that you can have hot food too. They don't weigh much and I wouldn't do without now.

Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:01 am

that sounds good and will look into it

hot food and drink is of the essence of a cold night, learnt that well in the army and is very true

thanks

Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:25 pm

I fancy doing Chiesl someday - maybe you could give me a shout too big grin

Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:07 pm

Me and a mate of nice are going to chesil for the cod run hopefully next week (depending on weather). We think we will be going to cogden, if we do i`ll let you know where we will be and maybe your fancy joining us.

Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:05 pm

when i go chesil next i will add a post saying where fishing a few days in advance if possible and weather depending

tend to fish there mostly as it is the deeper water and most productive (sometimes)

not paticulary keen on pier fishing even though weymough and west bay have good piers but we do fish piers when the weather is bad as the one in weymouth (the pleasure pier not nothe) has shelter from rain and wind, fishing there is better than not fishing at all

I have tried bottom fishing a few times from weymouth's pleasure pier using a flapper rig but to no avail, my good wife caught some nice sized garfish there using a float at the end of the summer.

Guest

I've tried bottom fishing but find that I have trouble breathing!! :lol:

Member Joined: Oct 15, 2006 Posts: 69 Location: somerset

Hi all just reading this post and thought i would chip in if your thinking of coming down in the summer for the bass think about seatown its a beach about 4 miles west of westbay and the bass fishing there after dark is pretty good oh and to make it even more inviting they went and built a pub on the beach.

Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:31 am

PUB !! your on, im coming