What a fishing session this was. After a few weeks of not being able to go fishing due to illness, I was suffering with sea fishing withdrawals however. although my health had improved, the tides, weather etc were not so good so again I had to wait. Finally the weather and tidal flow looked good and I was ready for a sea fishing session from the beach at Bridport, Dorset, UK.
Before venturing out to sea fish, I prepared the Mackerel and Squid into half and half cocktail sausage style baits. I had saved 4 whole Squid that I intended to use later in the evening in the hope of catching a Bass. Also, just in case there were crabs about attacking my bait I would be able to use the Squid with a balsa wood pop up inside to give a little buoyancy (this type of pop up baiting up is available to view on my YouTube channel). This type of pop up bait provides buoyancy keeping the bait off the sea bed floor and hopefully helping to keep the crabs from getting it.
With a moderate sea flow and a slight bit of colour in the water I decided to use a pulley rig and because I was using a sausage style bait, a pennel hook was also used in order to keep the bait held in place and provide an additional potential way of hooking a fish.
I used a 3/0 J hook as the main hook and a 1/0 half circle hook as the pennel. As the sea tidal flow was only moderate, I decided to use my Century T700 fishing rod, the ultimate rod for sea fishing from the beach on smooth ground in my opinion and easy to cast at a fair distance with a simple overhead thump.
Sea fishing UK 2024 on Chesil, Dorset started by losing a fish in the surf within minutes of fishing however, I did get a glance at the fish and I was fairly sure it was a small (strap) Conger Eel so no big loss there. It was later on when I was caught out with what happend but, I was overjoyed.
See the video to learn of th future of my YouTube channel but also some amazing sea fishing UK 2024.
I hope you enjoy my video.
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19 Comments
Nice one Rob great video great session, glad to hear your back feeling a little better and see you out fishing again mate
What's a great video Rub Some nice small hounds there. At least you got some strap congrega. That was a nice small Van that big one. Your rod nearly went in the water. Keep up the great videos mate. Really love watching
nice one rob great stuff well done
Good to see you out fishing again Rob i may have to come down there with some crab for the hounds. Great video rob plenty of action.
Nice fish rob
I am booked on the Dodger for sun morning 🙂
It's going to be flat calm !
One Rod Rob ??
That beach is a special place indeed .. I’ll be back soon .. nice video and fish ! Nice to see you out again Rob take care 👍🏻
Morning mate, looks like you had a good time. Thanks for sharing buddy an ya time. Tc Andy
Hi Rob, glad to hear your back is getting better matey, and great to see you getting some action with the hounds, did very well there for a few hours. Looking forward to seeing the new channel name… all the best feller, take care 😎👊🏻👍👍
Hi companion of the sands, great video my friend, funny enough, I'm not fishing for a long time now, from the same reason, lower back pain, it is awful pain, so, we share the same things here 😂, back pain and the passion of fishing. I'm also from Dorset, I will love one day we meet at the beach and do a session together. Carry on with the good work and tight lines 👍.
Rob bro
Nice video Rob. Lovely fish well done.
Well done
Nice one rob great watch gutted I can't get down at the moment ❤
Hiya Rob.
What a belting session we'll done mate couple of cracking hounds.
Really good to see you back mucker.
I going to catch up with a few of your videos.
Take care and tight lines 👍
Well done Rob, cracking fish. All the best from G.Y
Top job Rob, Every time you looked away your rod tip was tapping and bending. What rods do you use please.🎣🐟🎣🎣🎣🐟🎣🐟🐟🎣🐟🎣🎣
Nice one Rob… ❤❤