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I have 5 of the county guides, Hants/IOW, North Devon and Somerset, South Devon, Cornwall and Dorset. They have signs of age and are a bit tatty around the edges but the pages are intact and clear. They seldom appear on sites such as eBay and I have seen individual county guides priced up to...

Couldn’t help notice the mention of Hugh Stoker, a great angling writer back in the 60s and 70s. I have a decent collection of his regional sea angling county guides and a hardback by him, Sea Angling Hotspots, as well. As I will never use them again and also because they are quite hard to come...

It’s interesting to see how radically things have changed in terms of shore species.Going back to my early fishing career from Solent beaches in the 60s and 70s I never caught or heard of anyone catching congers, smoothounds, any species of ray, dogfish or gilthead bream from the shore...

Refreshingly well written and interesting report

I used to love catching dabs when fishing the Kent coast years ago but now living in Dorset they are very hard to come by (for me anyway!) around the Christchurch beaches.

Hi, Do you find that the section you were fishing on the Milford side of the groyne/boulder outcrop is less weedy than the other side as you go up towards the elbow and the end of the spit or is there little difference? Out of sheer force of habit and also I guess because that’s where most...

Nice report and pictures, loved the art work!

Fortunately I had smothered my exposed bits with anti mozzie spray because I realised that it was going to be still and humid, perfect conditions to bring out the biters. They were everywhere but I seem to have come away unscathed. Regarding the fishing, It’s amazing how venues so close...

Decided to have a beach session last night to escape the monotony of TV induced lassitude. Fished 2 rods, one with worm on the usual 3 hook flapper and the other with fish baits (anchovy, sandeel, mackerel) hoping for a ray or decent bass. No action at all until dusk set in when there was a huge...

Glad the information was useful. Hope you have a great holiday in that wonderful part of France and connect with some bass.

The West and North coasts of France cover a huge area so I’m not sure where you are headed.! I was in Brittany a few weeks ago and fished the river Odet estuary close to Benodet. Predictably it was stuffed with mullet but I did manage a few schoolies on surface lures and spoke to a German fly...

I have caught gurnard by bumping artificial Gulp worms along the bottom on my local Dorset beach using a Carolina rig but was really surprised last year while on holiday in the US. Fishing a very shallow beach using a Patchinko surface lure on Rhode Island hoping for a striped bass or bluefish...

I know that the Atlantic coast of Morocco is well known for the quality of its lure fishing for bass. The surf there is fairly constant and due to the high water temperatures year-round the fish can be both fairly plentiful and sizeable. I remember reading a feature on this subject in Sea Angler...

You are right, this is a good area to explore. By the way the book you mention is by Hugh Stoker and I have almost the entire collection of his guides around the south coast. As you say they are 50 odd years old now but still full of good information.

Further to my note about the video where a crab imitation was used, the full title of the video is “peche du bar a la mouche en Bretagne”

There’s a really interesting video on YouTube showing French fly fishermen sight fishing for bass in Brittany I think. The water was only a couple of feet deep and the bass were nosing around in the rocks and weedy gullies, the crab lures they were using caught plenty of very good bass. I guess...

Probably the closest productive area for you from London would be the Purbeck coast in Dorset. Grab an Ordnance Survey map of the area or trawl Google Earth for likely looking shallow rough terrain.

Excellent report and lovely photos. Thanks!

As an oldish git please indulge me as I delve into some shore fishing nostalgia. I started shore fishing seriously as a teenager back in the sixties around Portsmouth where the favourite marks were Gillkicker, Stokes Bay, Eastney, Hayling Island and last but by no means least Pompey harbour. No...