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Comp weekend and I had thought to try the rocks for a huss but the tides were too small so I figured I’d try one of my beach marks. I don’t usually fish this until later in the year but assumed if ray were about they’d be here as much as any other surf beach, plus hounds have started to show...

I did my first 48 hour comp for a couple of months this weekend but the choices were thin given the tides. I still don’t have too much stamina to walk too far, or climb rocks etc, so I opted for the western end of Chesil and a minimal walk, relatively speaking. High was about 10.40pm so the...

I might need to start reconsidering where I fish at the moment because I really am struggling lately with a lack of stamina, easily fatigued and aches and pains. A lot appears to be my usual symptoms and it’s always much worse in the winter, due to lack of sunlight, so may simply be a low point...

This is one of those ‘hardly worth the bother’ reports but might be of interest to someone! Another of my 48 hour comps this weekend and I actually didn’t mind fishing but tides and conditions were against it a bit. Yet again mentioning health, I know, but I have to balance going to a mark...

But nah

Joined @Christurner last night at Golf Links beach Minehead in an attempt at the cod. They’ve been getting a few out off the shore along there generally up to 13lbs or so. The Watchet shop advised that Watchet harbour wall was already rammed at 3.30pm and Minehead harbour is another spot that...

There was a 48 hour comp this weekend and I knew most of the club would be fishing the local flounder turkey open (usually anything over 1lb 4 gets you a turkey and all the trimmings). I don’t like Sunday flounder comps - it’s an early start, you have to dig bait the day before and with my...

…. to go floundering! It is here anyway, our estuary fishes well up to Christmas then dies off again. I usually do three or four sessions a month but didn’t go at all last year and not been this year until now. So the plan was to fish Sunday daytime but first I needed worm. Digging it does...

Back at Saunton Sands on the bass hunt Saturday night, this time with @Christurner It’s not necessarily the most prolific bass beach but tide times and size didn’t leave us with many local options. We set up about where I went last time, mainly because there’s some shallow sand banks...

My autumn bass efforts are well underway now and I’m aiming to hit the surf beaches as much as I can when time and tide and health allows. Last night was a neap tide and high at half hour after midnight so ideal for Saunton beach. This beach is as flat as feck and very very long. Neaps are...

Saturday night was a club comp on a local beach in memorial for a well liked former club member, with proceeds/donations going to a cancer charity. Last year I hadn’t felt particularly great and the turn out was low anyway so I hadn’t walked too far from the car park and didn’t get a bite all...

I haven’t been wrassing in Cornwall at all this year. Plans to make multiple trips were deterred by life getting in the way or shitty weather - the North Cornwall coast is no place to be when huge swells are smashing in. Sunday was a daytime comp and although I had the feeling hounds would...

The August 48 hour comp had come around again and I had a few ideas. Originally I thought I might go out Friday night but was blowing a hoolie and peeing down - in the end I didn’t even go to the pub 😳 So Saturday the thought was up channel for hounds and sole. Hounds more likely, but you...

Thought I’d share this here too. in case people don’t see it on the banter section https://www.northdevongazette.co.uk/news/local-news/1254952/video-a-fishy-graveyard-thousands-of-fish-stranded-at-westward-ho.html

It was my club’s 48 hour comp this weekend. Was going to go out Friday but the tide times were all wrong and the weather pretty dire. I had planned to go up channel but with the winds we had I decided to stay local and return to my mackerel mark, which would be sheltered from the worst of it...

Different spot today to see if the mackie are about. A mate had plenty yesterday there, of a better size, around the high, so wanted to try and get another 20 or so to complete the freezer stocks for now. Sorry, no pics of this mark I’m afraid 😬 Really meant to get there about two hours before...

I’ve been gnawing at my liver for a few days as mackerel here locally have pretty much been queuing up at the vacuum pack machines up and down the coast. I couldn’t go Saturday as went spider hunting (don’t ask), Sunday I had too much work to catch up on. Monday it was work plus darts night...

Umm, doesn’t seem worth it. Tried a local estuary mark after gilts with @Christurner , they’ve been getting them. The writing was on the wall after I decided on shorts and t shirt as had been absolutely roasting all day. About the time I turned up a cold clammy sea mist rolled in, was bloody...

I’ve not been out for weeks. Partly busy with work and other stuff, partly CBA to be honest. But this weekend is my club’s 48 hour comp, timed so those of us who want to can fish the Putsborough Open tonight as well. Then @Christurner got in touch and asked if I fancied trying for ray on...

Did anyone notice if the past year was a bit poor for quality bass? Was wading through one of the endless threads elsewhere about bass stocks, commercials and angling returns and it got me to thinking my past season was pretty poor. So I know all this is anecdotal and just one person’s...