The week so far

Judith and me are down in westbay this week, staying in an apartment in the building which was the police station in broadchurch, nice sea view, shame there is a building site on the sea front where they are doing a lot of storm damage prevention work, a bit noisy but bearable, then again we don't spend much time in anyway.
Saturday was a rest day apart from a walk round the bridport market stalls along the roads in the town, plenty of tat and curios, all we bought were four black marbles to replace the missing ones from the solitaire game at home , 20p well spent LOL.
Sunday and into Weymouth for a mini bash on the pleasure pier, I was told we should try maggot, so picked up a pint from Weymouth angling and off we went, lucky for me it was a numbers match today, not different species, we got totally mini pout swamped ,one every drop.

That was until Judith caught a small wrasse, but it was numbers and we had stopped counting a long time before that, phew.
Monday and it was off fossil hunting with an old friend from bristol, Adrian Davies who has a group called the Weymouth fossil hunters, and he know lives down here following his passion and doing a bit of guiding , anyone interested in going out with him should contact him via face book, I would say it's well worth it as it's not just his ability to discover these stone animals, his knowledge of how old they are and the reasons for them being there was suprising, and he could actually name them, we didn't find anything large, except for the giant ammonites on portland, but they are set in 500lb rocks, the other chap who came along, another Tony but from London way did spot a rock with a bit of ammonite showing so ended up with a good find of a 4 to 5 inch fossil when he chipped it out of its 160,000,000 year old home, a long testing walk but worth it.

Same day we got a bit of rag and went into the stone pier, this time it was a species count, we both had plenty of fish, only small , we both had pollack,wrasse and some better pouting, a good end to a good day.
Tuesday and it's down to beer for a day in the self drives, and with a forecast for basically no wind we expected a good day. Motored out past beer head took the normal head selfie, this is without doubt one of Judith and mine favourite days.
Dragged a set of feathers and caught three mackerel , which was enough for bait, then went about 500mtrs beyond the head and anchored up. Couldn't asked for better weather, the sea was like glass.

And we had a plenty of fish, starting off with the normal dogfish, then we had some congers up to about 15lb. All unhooked in the sea, don't want them thrashing around in the boat.

Needless to say Judith had the biggest, also a couple of smoothounds  turned up which put a very satisfying bend in the 40g outfits we use.

The biggest may have just scraped 10lb, but they are excellent fun, and really pretty fish.

We also had one lonely bream (I had that), this was a species hunt again today, which I was winning 5 to 4, that was until Judith caught a pin whiting on the bream rig, so at 5 all we decided to motor back to about 50mtrs off beer head and bounce some rag baits for some wrasse, Judith have me right seeing to doing this with more than me and the biggest, with a couple of good ballans over 3lb, it's got to be said they really do pull hard.

So it was a tie on species but she did give me right spanking on numbers, oh well back to the drawing board, I may have to start cutting the points off her hooks LOL it's Wednesday now and with a North easterly wind we may spend a few hours on chesil.