Chesil Hunter's Fishing Reports

Comparing last years fishing to this years fishing it has been a year full of improvements for me but also the odd setback that I need to address in 2016 .And it's also only just dawned on me that I actually enjoy scratching around for the smaller fish then hunting for specimen fish The improvement I am mostly happy with is my tactics for catching my favourite fish the Plaice .Four years ago I would probably have had 5 or so plaice in a season,  last year I had 9 and this year I had 54 . I believe its down to several things Firstly constantly changing/improving my rigs over the last 2 years until I found something that works really well . I also now have three good plaice marks along Chesil instead of one .Obviously there is greater numbers of plaice about which is out of my hands but that has helped me to fine tune my rigs in terms of catch rate and hook sizes etc.So now I have a couple months to work out how I can get closer to 100 plaice next year .I don't think I can i

Having left everything until late this weekend I decided to go bait digging from 10:30pm - 01:00am Saturday night, then fish Abbotsbury from 06:30am .The digging was hard going towards the end as I split my pitchfork after an hour and a half but persisted with a now mini fork! and managed to find what looked enough to head back to the car for some kip.I was hoping to sleep until 6am then fish but I basically sat in my car trying to sleep until it was time to hit the beach.. Not much happened until the ebb when I started getting a fish a cast all be it whiting ,pout ,dogs etc and this was really hammering my bait supply after only a couple hours . A mate called me and suggested that I should try a live bait rig if my bait was that low .So I started to bait a small hook with little blow-lug .....the whiting found them with ease the only problem was they were all large whiting and pulling the weight free but I kept at it and noticed my rod had slack-lined again so went to r

With chesil being a bit on the breezey side! I tagged along with some lads who were also fishing hengistbury head for the first time ... So after a nice long walk down the road a hike through some woodland and wading through some bogland we finally made it to the mark having taken the long way round !!!! Bites were from the off with a couple small bass and a better fish lost . Then it was whiting pout and rockling for a bit ! Until finally my target sole arrived at 2lbs 2oz .Fun little venue ,bit of a hike though !