Popular Post mike farrants Posted December 6, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 6, 2021 Not much of a catch report - and deffo a poor fish count considering the time invested - but there were fish! I had a fishing friend come and stay for the weekend with his family - so while the girls planned a trip to Bournemouth christmas market me and shane planned to brave the cold and wind - he was keen to catch a squid before they disappear, but was happy with anything - Saturday was forecast 25mph-30mph north westerly, and Sunday 20mph easing late afternoon. so with the water clarity likely bad no squidding off the pier and with 20+mph unlikely to get the boat out. So Saturday we decided to hit the beach late afternoon into the night with high at 6.30pm- we chose Greenhill in Weymouth as we'd had success here before - a sand and shingle beach in the middle of Weymouth bay, but with rocky groin to add some underwater feature - we've had small eyed rays, conger, pouting & whiting here before - hopeful that we would be at least plagued by whiting after dark. we got there for 3pm and fished up to high and then a few hours after. with 2 rods each we threw everything at it - Squid, Rag, Peeler, razor, cuttle, mackerel, and combos of all but to no real avail - we had one whiting each for over 6hrs fishing. Packed up at 9.30pm amazed there wasnt much pout of whiting. Sunday with the weather looking better and the wind off the land we decided to try the boat for a few hours inshore - heading out of Weymouth about 12pm we drifted for squid in portlands north entrance, with only one small squid coming to me - after an hour or so we switched to drifting outside Portland harbour with baited feathers targeting mackerel, gurnard, whatever was there. sadly only one small Tub gurnard for me. despite loads of fish showing on the sounder (all the whiting we didn't catch on the beach probably) heading home as the sun set, at least we had some fresh squid for my mate and his kids to try. coated in breadcrumbs, and Shallow fried - they loved it! suzook12, thejollysinker, Geoff and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 Got to be in it to win it, so well done for getting out and fishing. Blanks beaten by the slimmest of margins, but beaten nonetheless. Good work 👍 jonnyswamp, GPSguru and Saintly Fish 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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