Abboutsbury 7-8/01/2012

 

Last Monday saw me head back to chesil in search of the cod as xcweather said wind would be ok,so off i goes,gets there,gets out the car walks up the shingle bank only to be greated by an onshore wind,as you can expect there was some choice words being ranted in the air  back in the car and back home

 

Got back put everything away and thought sod it back to carping once again

Friday i noticed the wind was dropping so a look on xcweather as well as the met office and it was spot on,the swell would be dropping down and so would the wind,the only draw back was high water was at 535pm . arrived there before high water found a spot on the packed beach and set up 1 rod with a live bait rig on the other rig with 6/0 hooks baited with black lug and freash cuttle fish.

Casting was someone funny as everytime i was about to cast i would get a side wind hitting the lead,so id have to start again distance with the cuttle bait was prob 80 yards max (small cuttles) The other rod was baited withjsut black lug and cast as far as i could manage.

I remember looking at the time and it was 2am and the next it was 230am(bu**er must of dozed of)

reeled in the cuttle rod and bait was gone,so re baited and out she went,got to the other rod that had black lug on and started to reel in and thought,FFS another poxy doggie,but this didnt fight like a doggie infact it was just a dead weight on the end,got it to the surfline and had to pick my moment to beach what ever this was. got the fish onto the beach and went down to have a look and what do i see ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I see a great big white body

 

 

 

 

Nope it wasnt a doggie

 

 

or a whitting

 

 

or a pouting

 

 

 

 

hell it wasnt even a cod

 

 

 

or even a codling 

 

It was this

 

 

She went 3lb 13oz  thois beats my pb by a MASSIVE 11oz

 

Once i had knocked it on its head i gutted it only to find that is was full and i mean full of roe!!

 

The fish was caught at 230am and weighed again by another angler on his scales and after gutting it she went 3lb 30z

 

happy days but still codless

 

 

 

 

 

Il upload both pics

 

Sole caught last night

Sole caught from the Bristol channel last year

 

There you go  

 

I wonder if this year is gonna be a decent year for the Plaice and sole ?? Not long to wait before Eastney and Chesil gets a hiding from anglers.Only 3 months to wait