Popular Post Born Hunter 17,622 Posted October 19, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 (edited) Me and a mate had planned a beach camp/fishing weekend but he cried off so I thought f**k it I’m going anyway. Grabbed the rifle, rod and pup and headed south to my adoptive county and home of another very good mate and his family. The mackerel were well and truly ‘in’. The water was fizzing with them and bait fish, the bait fish lining the shingle for miles! I had an evening and morning stalking too. A lot of rutting with grunts resonating through the downs. Took a sorrel (probably) that evening and then got on something a bit bigger in the morning. Nothing mega but he was holding some does. We tried very hard for bass that next day but you couldn’t get two more different days unfortunately. Edited October 19, 2021 by Born Hunter 31 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Born Hunter 17,622 Posted October 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 (edited) I think I ate my body weight in whitebait and got cold roast mackerel for sarnies for the week Dogs are eating well on the fatty trimming and ribs from that sorrel too. Edited October 19, 2021 by Born Hunter 12 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NEWKID 26,094 Posted October 19, 2021 Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 Great stuff mate, looks absolutely perfect Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bearfoot 1,476 Posted October 19, 2021 Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 Sea mcnab nice that ✍ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Born Hunter 17,622 Posted October 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 19 minutes ago, NEWKID said: Great stuff mate, looks absolutely perfect Would've been if I had managed a bass too. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Born Hunter 17,622 Posted October 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 1 minute ago, Bearfoot said: Sea mcnab nice that ✍ I reckon a Macnab down here would be a Sika stag or Fallow Buck, a legal Bass and a brace of Woodcock. One for November..... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 44,196 Posted October 19, 2021 Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 (edited) I thought you were going to say you had taken up skate boarding No, seriously, top stuff mate…..fantastic Edited October 19, 2021 by WILF 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bearfoot 1,476 Posted October 19, 2021 Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 There is several fallow roe seki salmon 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 44,196 Posted October 19, 2021 Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 @Born Hunter You seem to like that area mate, could you see yourself down there in time ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Born Hunter 17,622 Posted October 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 1 minute ago, WILF said: @Born Hunter You seem to like that area mate, could you see yourself down there in time ? Truth is, I'm not particularly adventurous, it doesn't take a lot to settle me but takes a lot to move me if you get me. Where I live now I feel very settled and my trips away are a nice break. I think if I was a bit more 'normal' and inclined to live in different places like a lot of folk seem to do these days I'd certainly have moved by now, it's perfect down there. But truth be told I'd probably have gone to NZ, the US or even Africa. In another life maybe... Maybe one day, if it feels like the right time I'll move down there. Even career wise it'd be a good move. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 44,196 Posted October 19, 2021 Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 3 hours ago, Born Hunter said: Truth is, I'm not particularly adventurous, it doesn't take a lot to settle me but takes a lot to move me if you get me. Where I live now I feel very settled and my trips away are a nice break. I think if I was a bit more 'normal' and inclined to live in different places like a lot of folk seem to do these days I'd certainly have moved by now, it's perfect down there. But truth be told I'd probably have gone to NZ, the US or even Africa. In another life maybe... Maybe one day, if it feels like the right time I'll move down there. Even career wise it'd be a good move. Nothing abnormal about not wanting to leave the place your from and feel comfortable in mate Sounds a tidy balance to me 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mushroom 12,352 Posted October 19, 2021 Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 4 hours ago, Born Hunter said: Would've been if I had managed a bass too. Get yourself over here next year for the bass and sea bream run 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
South hams hunter 8,820 Posted October 19, 2021 Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 4 hours ago, Born Hunter said: Would've been if I had managed a bass too. try one of those mackerel as a live bait next time mate or his head and guts in the gutter. craacking looking day, im guessing chesil? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Born Hunter 17,622 Posted October 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 7 minutes ago, South hams hunter said: try one of those mackerel as a live bait next time mate or his head and guts in the gutter. craacking looking day, im guessing chesil? Cheers for the tip. I don't know f**k all about fishing really, but I would imagine literal tons of dead fish washing about over the past week probably left everything fairly full. Is that a thing like? The Beach stunk of dead and I was even snagging half rotten lumps of fish. That said, one fella at least caught a bass, but that was the morning we were on the mackerel... Yeah Chesil. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Born Hunter 17,622 Posted October 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2021 I think the codling (?), one of about half a dozen, was washed up by-catch. But the sprats were pretty much like this all along chesil for the whole week I believe. Certainly like it at Portland end and west bay end so I assume the same in between. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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