I should have bought a lottery ticket last weekend: On Saturday’s low tide, I bounced a bait in a shallow area I’ve often completely overlooked. A quick and delicate twang on the tip signalled somebody was home, though they’d avoided the hook… A stronger rattle led me to recast and I reeled in to find […]
After being blown off the rock marks in East Dorset and Portland by some unexpected 20 mph plus winds, I ended up doing a bit of impromptu LRF – or lerfing – around Weymouth this weekend. While the fishies were abundant, it was definitely a case of quantity over quality, with none of the more […]
It’s been a quiet couple of months down the coast for me, sadly – and by quiet, I mean I haven’t been out much. I’ve had a handful of fish from some old favourite Dorset haunts, but nothing of note. With a busy year on the work and family front, it feels like I missed some […]
Most people in England saw the New Year in with a prolonged spell of heavy rain, but we were lucky to have escaped the soaking and spent much of January in Poland – staying with family, enjoying the odd mountain walk, and, I should mention, getting married! The week of the wedding was Baltic, with […]
We’re three months into being first time parents and the novelty is just starting to wear off… We’ve survived the initial shock and we’re now settling into a new normalcy. It’s been brilliant, but the adrenalin’s ebbed away and I’m starting to feel it. In recent weeks I’ve learnt a new level of tiredness – […]
I really wanted to dislike Swanage Pier. I didn’t like the prospect of having to pay £6 to fish it between the confines of 9-5, and even less so did I like the cost of parking a car in Swanage – at £9 for the day! Adding to that £15 the cost of fuel, food, […]
Other than the abundant Ballan and Corkwing, the toothy Goldsinny was set to be my easiest shore-caught adversary – but it still gave me a good run for my money! Perhaps I was just unlucky, but it took a good dollop of persistence to track one down. My hunt began on a warm day in […]
We’ve a six week old baby at home – our first – so my days roving around the South Coast in search of big ballan wrasse are on somewhat of a hiatus for now. All things considered, I’ve been incredibly lucky to manage two days fishing this month. Instead of the usual roaming around remote […]