Popular Post Hoop Posted October 1, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 1, 2023 (edited) After much clambering around yesterday a venue for the evenings festivities had been agreed, an outing to Milford.. a venue put forward by our friendly bait supplier. The desired target was sole, the brief was simple ish.. a venue with easy access on proven sole ground, milford seemed to tick the boxes,. However, upon arrival the beach is undergoing works and the step down was not achievable so back in the car.. Google maps, Barton I called out!? Nope, the old fella doesn't agree with the slope leading to the beach.. wonderful! After 5 minutes he pipes up.. 'Lee'?!!.. an hour later, we had arrived on a mark 5 minutes from my front door.. 😭 My buddy just enjoys being out with a line in the drink, catching for him is truly a bonus.. though I like to think my outlook mirrors that of my bud, in all honesty, I'd sooner blank being in the 'right place' than blank somewhere convenient not likely to throw anything up.. last night, we ended up on a convenient mark. Big tide, patchy skies, warm with intermittent bright moon appearances. First cast mate had a great bite but failed to stick it, then that was his lot till the last cast with a tiny hound pup.. I fished one at range - 6/o pully, squid and blank lug.. 30 year old Bass rod fished in close with size 4's, tiny black lug tipped squid. While the big baits remained untouched all night, first cast on the bass gear I had a smut pup. Just before wrapping up I had a cracking bite and upon picking the rod up I felt something pulling back! Happy days, moments later.. up popped a Codling. My mate insisted on weighing and it went 4lb 12. Sadly with it gut hook, it ended up coming home. Safe to say, the Sole were no where to be seen. A match last week on Hillhead that's widely regarded as the local hotspot had a turn out of 18, not a single Sole was caught.. another fish with changing habits? In other fishing its been kinda slow, had a decent Bass Friday around 7lb, stalked which made it quite satisfying. Even squeezed a Mullet session in a week ago on floating bread. In an hour I had 2 Bass and 1 Mullet.. nothing big but pulled the string nevertheless. Edited October 1, 2023 by Hoop Malc, Geoff, thejollysinker and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daio web Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 great report bud thanks for posting 🐳 Hoop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejollysinker Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 Sounds like you’re doing quite well 👍 if you want a sole I hear Southbourne is producing quite a few. I would have happily taken that cod for the table, I can’t seem to catch one for love nor money 🤣 Hoop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoop Posted October 3, 2023 Author Share Posted October 3, 2023 On 10/1/2023 at 7:31 PM, thejollysinker said: Sounds like you’re doing quite well 👍 if you want a sole I hear Southbourne is producing quite a few. I would have happily taken that cod for the table, I can’t seem to catch one for love nor money 🤣 Really good shout this and having just checked Google maps, Southbourne is only a short hop along the coast. May squeeze in a trip that way, thanks for the steer. Ref coddies, stacks coming out chesil way by all accounts? thejollysinker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejollysinker Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 7 hours ago, Hoop said: Really good shout this and having just checked Google maps, Southbourne is only a short hop along the coast. May squeeze in a trip that way, thanks for the steer. Ref coddies, stacks coming out chesil way by all accounts? There’s been a fair few reports of cod on the fb groups at Chesil which is promising and there’s even some coming out at Southbourne so if you go Sole fishing you might end up with Mr Cod again 😅 Hoop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoop Posted October 4, 2023 Author Share Posted October 4, 2023 15 hours ago, thejollysinker said: There’s been a fair few reports of cod on the fb groups at Chesil which is promising and there’s even some coming out at Southbourne so if you go Sole fishing you might end up with Mr Cod again 😅 🤣.. don't you worry, I will be down that way after Cod! 😉 thejollysinker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 Nice work that man! Well done. Perhaps not the target species but a desirable one nonetheless 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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