Posted: Sun Nov 25, 07 12:20 pm Post subject: A winters tale
I thaught ide share with you a codding trip from a couple of winters ago.it was a particularly cold snap in january,dropping down to -5 at night but bright and dry.I had read in the sea angler magazine that cod were showing on the south coast,and more importantly on a section of chesil that is great for a winters bash,west bexington.
luckily that saturday was due a hightide during the afternoon,so i decided that that was the ideal day.
The night before ,isettled infront of the fire and made up some traces ,and checked my tackle,making sure the shockleader knot was looking ok ,a spot of super glue just to be sure.I also made a point of chucking out the kooks in the bundle of tangled traces that still had dried mackerel and ragworms on.this all done i put my rods and reels and bags next to the front door for an early start.
next morning i was up bright and early,walked the mutt fed the chooks and then loaded the kit into the car.it was a bdooly cold morning even at 11am when i finally got going, in the shade of the hedge rows the frost still lingered there was no wind and the chirp of the robin was accompanied by the smell of Farmer Reeves cows.
Before i knew it i was halfway there,past Blandford and on to Dorchester,i stopped in at Tesco (the one Prince Charles helped design) picked up some scoff and on i went.the next stop was the little tackle shop over the bridge at weymouth,tiney little shop,crammed with every thing you can imagine a sea angler would need and some you couldnt! (inflatable shark??????) sadly i hadnt reserved any lug so that was off the list of bait! i was offered some frozen gutted black lug but ive never been keen on its merrit as a good bait,so i left the shop with 4lb of ragworms ,some frozen peeler crab and a shiny thing that i didnt 'need'.
As i got back to the car i noticed i had 'mistakenly' parked in a residents only parking street and there was a nice little note on the windscreen inviting me to contribute to next years dorset constabulary police ball!!!!!i drove off muttering to myself sumik along the lines of iligitimate german nationalists and what a great day this was going to be!!
to read the rest follow the link!
I thaught ide share with you a codding trip from a couple of winters ago.it was a particularly cold snap in january,dropping down to -5 at night but bright and dry.I had read in the sea angler magazine that cod were showing on the south coast,and more importantly on a section of chesil that is great for a winters bash,west bexington.
luckily that saturday was due a hightide during the afternoon,so i decided that that was the ideal day.
The night before ,isettled infront of the fire and made up some traces ,and checked my tackle,making sure the shockleader knot was looking ok ,a spot of super glue just to be sure.I also made a point of chucking out the kooks in the bundle of tangled traces that still had dried mackerel and ragworms on.this all done i put my rods and reels and bags next to the front door for an early start.
next morning i was up bright and early,walked the mutt fed the chooks and then loaded the kit into the car.it was a bdooly cold morning even at 11am when i finally got going, in the shade of the hedge rows the frost still lingered there was no wind and the chirp of the robin was accompanied by the smell of Farmer Reeves cows.
Before i knew it i was halfway there,past Blandford and on to Dorchester,i stopped in at Tesco (the one Prince Charles helped design) picked up some scoff and on i went.the next stop was the little tackle shop over the bridge at weymouth,tiney little shop,crammed with every thing you can imagine a sea angler would need and some you couldnt! (inflatable shark??????) sadly i hadnt reserved any lug so that was off the list of bait! i was offered some frozen gutted black lug but ive never been keen on its merrit as a good bait,so i left the shop with 4lb of ragworms ,some frozen peeler crab and a shiny thing that i didnt 'need'.
As i got back to the car i noticed i had 'mistakenly' parked in a residents only parking street and there was a nice little note on the windscreen inviting me to contribute to next years dorset constabulary police ball!!!!!i drove off muttering to myself sumik along the lines of iligitimate german nationalists and what a great day this was going to be!!
to read the rest follow the link!
