Two Short Beach Sessions

Hi guys and welcome back, This week has been a mad one for me, as once again I've been out with the man himself Mr Mark Tiller chasing them salt water fish species for the Wessex Tackle and Guns species hunt!

I have been having a lot of fun with this lately and to be honest I have had nothing else on my mind at all, although I have just bought myself a nice new baitcaster Pike set up so I'm sure there will be some toothy sessions on here again soon!

So to start with Mark and I headed back down to West Bexington in the pursuit of anything that took the bait, this time there was no target species for me although I did say to him I wouldn't mind if a Doggy turned up. Mark on the other hand was after a Plaice.

I fished one rod at range all day with a Pully Pennel rig baited with either a whole Squid, a lump of Mackerel or a mix of both, that was hoping a rouge Ray might be out in front of me, with hoping being the operative word I think.

The other rod was fished with a single size 2 hook on a long flowing Pully rig, this one I was fishing either Ragworm, Black Lug or Smaller strips of Squid just to see if anything smaller was around.

Mark managed the first fish again this session a nice little Pouting and it was a new one for him in the hunt so he was happy, I followed that up with a lovely Bass form in close just before a Thunder storm decided to blow over and we decided at that point to call it a day!

So on to the second session, once again I was out with Mark this time though we spent the day down Poole Quay chasing after Marks first ever LRF mini species!

This was a great success and he managed a cool looking Shanny and another one of those really small Corkwing Wrasse I've been getting lately.

 When it came to the evening we decided we were going to head over to Branksome Chine a beach very close to home and one with a decent reputation for turning up a few fish through out the year.

This time I did have a target species in mind and had set out to catch a Smooth Hound! I had spent the previous three days watching videos on which baits, rigs and anything else I felt might help, as well as googling areas near me they had been caught and going back through numerous local fishing news papers.

Mark once again had the first fish and once again it was another awesome little Pouting, a nice fish to see but this time didn't help his cause, I managed the second fish and this one in my mind was a turn up!

I put this one back and re baited, as I walked over to cast out I noticed my other rod bouncing away and picked that up first, I was absolutely buzzing to see the shape of a small Smoothy when Mark lifted it up out of the surf for me!

I took this one on a fair sized peeler crab snipped half way through and elasticated into a sort of crab sausage on a Pully Pennel.

Mark was next up into a fish and as it turns out it was the beginning of a flurry of three Smooth Hounds each in the space of two hours! Mark was getting them on Ragworm where as I had one on Sand Eel, one on Crab and one on the Ragworm as well.

One thing I was not sure about was the markings on the fish as two of them had the 'stars' on them and one didn't, luckily for me I took pictures of both with the card just in case as they both counted on the hunt!

That's it for this week guys thanks once again for taking your time out to read this it really is much appreciated and I really sincerely hope you enjoyed the blog!

Species so far: 10

Shore Rockling

Plaice

Rock Goby

Ballan Wrasse

Shanny

Corkwing Wrasse

Bass

Lesser Spotted Dogfish

Stary Smooth Hound

Common Smooth Hound

Family LRF Time.

Hello everyone, fingers crossed you like reading about LRF because it's all I've been doing lately, I have been spending a fair few weekends out waiting for a few fish to turn up and it looks like they might finally be on the way!

As you may know from reading previous posts I have joined a species hunt this year and I'm banking on my LRF to keep me in the running as shore fishing is not really a strength of mine. I have now signed my boy up to this as well.

I picked up his card a little while back but had not been able to get out fishing with him until this weekend, Kieran is a very competent light lure angler when it comes to Perch so I felt that now I could spend a bit of time teaching him a few different rigs and some watercraft to help him find a few fish in the sea.

We started off in a little corner that I know is an absolute haven for Shanny, I showed him how to set up a nice little split shot rig and off he went searching out every little gap in the wall, now normally what happens when I go fishing with Kieran is it takes me 2 hours to get set up as he catches fish after fish whist I'm tying up my rigs. This time though I set my rod up at home and came out ready to rock!

Fish number 1 to me and another species to add to my list for the species hunt, I know I said we were out to teach Kieran but its still a competition and I'm extremely competitive even when it comes to my kids, I am trying to instill the same level of wanting to be the best in them as I have.

It didn't take him long at all to get one of his own and I did nothing to help him, he fished perfectly, from seeing the fish, presenting the rig on its nose, setting the hook and swinging it to his hand. I could not have been more proud of him!

Right so with him up and running on the hunt I was very happy with him when I gave him the option to keep fishing here or to move on in search of something different, he decided he wanted to see if he could get a few Wrasse species in a spot I fish for them all the time.

Whilst on the way to the Wrasse spot we decided to stop off at a spot we call Goby City to see if anyone was home.

Second put in he managed an awesome little Rock Goby and he was loving the fishing. He had a couple more looks all around the spot but there was nothing else there that wanted to take a lure.

Once at the area to try target a few Wrasse I helped him change his set up over to a light drop shot rig, I have notice here that 90% of the time there are no bites on any rig other than the drop shot, so now I don't bother with any other rig there.

I managed the first fish and was made up to have a second new species in this trip, this cool little Corkwing absolutely nailed my lure which was a small piece of Squid flavored worm.

Once again Kieran was not far behind me and had one of his own in his hands, now he grabbed it before I could warm him about how sharp they can be but he made no fuss at all and got the fish ready for a picture.

Honestly I could not have been happier with how he was fishing and dealing with the fish as well, he was extremely careful with them on returning them and they all went back swimming which is always a bonus!

I finished up the session with the smallest Corkwing I think I have ever seen but that just makes it a lot cooler!

Thanks again for reading and once again I really hope you enjoyed the post.

Species so far:

ME: 6                                               
Shore Rockling                               
Plaice                                           
Rock Goby                                     
Ballan Wrasse
Shanny
Corkwing Wrasse

KIERAN: 3
Shanny
Rock Goby
Corkwing Wrasse