Chesil Beach not coming up to expectations. 12-11-22

Headed down to that beach 

of broken dreams.

Arrived there at first light,

the waves could be heard.

So unloaded the car, put

the box and bits on the trolly

and walked for about 15 minutes.

My son turned up as I

got to the chosen swim.

I took my tackle down the

shingle and helped my son with

his.

I set up shop while he took his car

back to the car park.

My son caught first, a nice 

in size Codling. It was released

as we expected / hoped to catch more.

Sunrise was pretty spectacular.

Well for the next few hours

we had Doggies,

Whiting, Pouting and Conger.

It looks like we were fishing at

the fish kindergarten.

In total I had about 12 fish.

The sea state was a bit choppy

with some larger waves

coming in at times.

Baits used were,

Squid, Rag, Blow Lug, 

Black Lug and mixes of all of them.

There were very few bites after mid day.

Except this buoy,

It spent the morning heading east 

towards Portland.

Then later it returned 

and dragged one of my

lines into my sons lines.

Eventually we managed to 

get it onto the beach.

It weighed about 64lb.

My main line was badly damaged

and has had to be changed.

Shame I had only respooled

the day before and has now been replaced.

It had a shed load of Barnacles

hanging off the netting and line.

  

All in all a very enjoyable

days fishing with my son.

Icing on the cake was

my youngest Grandson 

dragged is Mummy down, 

he is only 2. 

Another very enjoyable

day.