Bit of a break

Judith and me have been in dorset this week, staying in a small beach hut thingy overlooking chesil beach at west bexington. Very nice and clean with everthing you woukd need ,even down to a some fishing kit in the cupboard, rod reel feathers etc.

And with a nice view of the beach and sea, so able to keep an eye on whats going on, just in case someone actually catches something.

I did have.a.go at chucking some bait out one evening, fishing with two rods, winding in after 15 minutes on eaxh outfit, only.to find the spiders were having a field day, stripping the baits, even eating the elastic aswell, must be a few about then 😂😂😂😂. i tried some fluff chucking as a few.mackerel were being caught. Another epic fail there aswell, with only a tiny whiting on a feather.

Went to beer on tuesday to go out in the self drives off the beach, lovely forecast, light winds tiny swell, and they weren't wrong jt was shaping uo to be a nice day, just hoping judith woukd be able to put up with it as her broken arm was making life difficult.

we motored out a few.hundred yards beyond beer head and dropped the anchor, put down a couple of rods with squid and prawn on the hook and then dropped some feathers over just to see if there were any mackerel about, so three drops and ten mackerel, kept 6 for bait and shook the other 4 off, the weather and sea were to good to be fair,

We had plenty of fish , dogfish and lots of small congers up to about 6lb, nothing huge or special, but on 30grm spinning outfits , all good fun, with the eels giving a really.good account of themselves, judith did manage a starfish doubke on the same hook, and she tok some convincing that they aint fish, even if the name does imply otherwise, and i had a small thornback,

We had over 50 fish between us, admittedly nothing very awe inspiring, but good fun on light gear, all fish went back ok, crushing the barbs down on the hooks makes life.easier for the fish and angler, judith managed to get a few fish up, but it became more uncomfortable as the day went on, but she didnt complain, so fair play.to her, when we got back in we went into the dolphin pub up the high street for fish and chips, and we couldn't remember ever havimg a better piece of cod, 5 star on the rixter scale