On Tuesday night Scott Gilfoy took a trip down to Burton Bradstock on the famous Chesil Beach to try and winkle out a fish or two.
The weather was not what he expected it to be with the wind blowing directly into his face from the sea. There was also some rain that had not been forecast.
There was also a lot of weed on arrival as the tide was low and there were large clumps of it floating about on the surface.
The method of fishing was to fish one rod close in just behind the breaking waves and the other rod cast out to about 50 yards, not too far at all but this is where he has caught fish in the past.
The first fish that Scott caught (a Bass of 2lb 8ozs) fell to a Ragworm on the 50 yard rod just after dark. Next came a thick run of Pout for about 2 hours! All of the Pout looked like they had come from the same mould and all were about 9” and weighed 7ozs approx.
Then the tide came up to its highest point and the fishing fell dead, this was perfect time to top up on Coffee and Cigarettes and hide from the wind for half an hour or so.
About an hour later when Scott had recast he managed to land a Banzai Dogfish, a perfect little miniature version of the real thing about 6 inches long.
Then came what he had gone all that way for, Scott recast out closer in this time, about 40 yards roughly and tried a smaller bait, a strip of Mackerel on a 1/0 hook.
After 10 minutes the rod tip folded over and then line touching the water was making its way uptide heading left up the beach, it was obviously a good fish.
After hitting the rod Scott followed the fish up the beach and had to duck under another anglers line until he was level with the fish, after a 2 minute battle Scott surfed the Bass up on a wave using constant pressure and the fish was his.
The fish weighed 6lb 7ozs and was a perfect specimen. After a hard fished session this was a great reward for Scott’s efforts.
