Popular Post mike farrants Posted August 15, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 15, 2022 So i've been living in Weymouth 3 years now and all i've managed to catch off chesil is a foul hooked gar fish (and im not counting that) - the fish simply elude me. No idea what was going wrong but simply couldn't catch - spring summer autumn winter, close in, far out, Portland end, west bay end, big bait, small bait - hell i've even joined the hoards of tinsle tossers and still not caught.... even if the fish are breaching in front of me..... but i never give up trying... Tuesday i thought why not try again- we'd had a lovely day out on the kayaks and it was warm and still in the evening - mrs off to footie training so i headed to chesil - armed with a mackerel, 2 prawns, 2 frozen squid 1 frozen peeler and we wont mention the left over worms that i ended up forgetting..... parked myself at Ferrybridge and noticed i was next to Wayne Hand - "The Shore angler" on you-tube on one of his coaching sessions = i instantly got a buzz of confidence - if he's here i must be in the right spot. I banged out a king prawn on a pulley pennel, and a 2 hook flapper with squid strip (hoping for bream) A 'family of Tinsel tossers' arrived and parked right between me and Wayne and that anoyed me a bit - its a 17 mile beach - no need to cram in - they clearly didnt care i had 2 rods out at angled left and right - anyway i let it go = there were loads of baits breaching they were into the mackerel and having fun. A bait ball exploded right in front of me and without caring or noticing one of them cast right over both my lines into it and pulled in a string of mackies and both my lines - fuming mad but remaining polite we untangled - once retrieved i had a foul hooked mackerel on my small rig - must have robbed one of his i think - that or he helped me = either way i'm not counting it. i was getting good rattles on the bream rig but no hook ups and baits getting stripped - led me to drop a hook size and bang - a bite and i connected - low and behold - not only my first fish on chesil but my first ever Red Mullet - just in keeper size, and gill hooked so it came home for tea (i tried to release it first but it wouldn't go back - so i waded in to try and revive it but it wasn't having it - so i grabbed it back) - absolutely buzzing! id done it and in style! a stunning fish! soon followed by a small black bream. I added mackerel strip to the prawn baits with elastic- nothing - but the mackerel did get eaten away - small bream i guess towards the end i swapped the big bait over to the frozen peeler and had a lot of interest - big bites but i couldn't connect. happy with my evening i went home with a decent mackerel for the bait freezer and a delicious red mullet for tea! Treated to a stunning sunset too! Happy days! suzook12, JonC, thejollysinker and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted August 15, 2022 Share Posted August 15, 2022 Great perseverance! As for the tinsel tossers, maybe a pair of scissors might speed up any untangling next time?? 😠🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 Stunner of a fish! Nice one apart from the ignoramus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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