Dorset Spear Fishing 2012

[speerolee]

I dunno mate; that race is great for playing with the resident sharks!!!


Nice one Matt on the bill dives, looks like Clive had taken you under his wing (fin).

I can't dive for sh**$ as i'm to impatient to breathe up and get bored. Keep up the reports and dont push it too much.

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[speerolee]

Oh,,, there are some giant fat lazy sleepy night time bass about now guys!!!

The beach is steep and full of shingle, it's a long old swim and the tide can be dangerous. A Swan around in the shallows may reap rewards.



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[Spacemonkey]

Glad my grandad kept an old Enigma machine in the loft...

 

[BarnacleBoy]

Got my first silver - Mullet! Post here.

Question....Mullet seem to have impossibly hard heads - I couldn't get my knife in without fear of pushing so hard that if I missed/slipped I'd dig my knife a few inches into my leg...something I'm keen to avoid. In the end, I ended going in the side of the head and waggling around until the fish was switched off. How do you guys do it? Also is there a technique to grabbing/holding them? Mine thrashed around and were only about 45cm long - I dread to think what a 5+ pounder must fight like. I was determined to not lose it, but wonder if there are ways of holding them securely so you can switch them off quickly. Oh, and can anyone ID whether the mullet are golden spot ones...

Lastly...one of the mullet had a parasite of some sort on it - wood louse in appearance but bigger (and nastier) and attached to the upper rear fin (hard to see in the picture). Are these common? Any issue with eating the fish? I'm guessing not.

 

[Scoobaru]

Cheers for the advice lee.

Barnacle boy well done on the fish mate. About time you bagged yourself a fish : ) regarding the mullets head I agree it is very hard, I grab them by the tail and then around the head with the other hand, squeezing very tightly with the thumb and fingers either around the gill area or just behind the gills. Another trick I've seen work for bass is to push your thumb and finger into the eyes with your palm on the top of their ear. I use a tri cut stringer (very sharp) and twist it I to the top of their head, making a triangle from the eyes. Then when it's inside their head I push it down towards the mouth as this seems to kill them instantly. Then string them through the eyes.

Hope this helps. I will have a look at the mullet in a second an give my opinion as to whether they are gold spots or not. Well done again

 

[speerolee]

Glad my grandad kept an old Enigma machine in the loft...

LOL!!!

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[speerolee]

Barnacle-
Just bear hug the donkey mullet, swim to float string through eyes then stick the stringer up through the gills and into head and give it a good wiggle.

ID on golden greys: they are very very slimey snd stink, the top lip is smooth with no warts snd the pec fin is concaved rather thsn convexed as on greys. Take a look at tyeboys FOM post for september.

Oh, the woodlice thing is a sea lice the fish should ve fine, however i would avoid if a fish was covered in them as that would suggest that the fish was ill and sitting motionless on the bottom a little to often.

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[winky]

Had a lovely dive with Matt (Spiderman) last night got in the water at 6pm to be met with all of 1m vis! Decided to push on and glad we did. It opened up to 4m in places. After much searching I settled on a nice area of reef and with in a few dives I had seen plenty of bass including at least 4 in the 8-10lb range and 2 of well over this size (judging by the size of the 10lb'er I had the other month). I didn't get a shot off at any but happy to know that this mark does hold some very good fish and in good numbers too!

I ended the dive with 4 good flounder and lovely sole (my first) of just shy of 2lb. Matt came home with a much better bag of bass, pollock, mullet and flounder. Lets hope this weather holds for a few weeks!!

 

[misterlizard]

Well done everybody on the great catches. I've got a stinking cold so am in bed at the moment, and now it looks like the wind's going to get up tomorrow and kill off all the lovely clear viz. AAAARRGGHH!

 

[Spiderman]

As Nick said it was a good evening. There were some big bass out there but in the end the only one that came home was just a 40cm one with an acompanying pollack of similar size a bigger mullet and four nice flounder.

 

[speerolee]

OK, don't usually do this on here, but I'm looking for a dive buddy tonight 22:15- 1am ish. Looking at the wind it looks as if tonight will be the last chance for a while for me to get back on this particular spot. 3 days ago it was full of fair sized bass 4-5lb range with the odd donkey! So I'm keen to get on it. My usual buddies are either injured, ill or elsewhere engaged.

I'm looking at a beach somewhere west of chesil. I will be staying in shallow water and hugging the shoreline.

My mrs wont let me go it alone now at night since I had to rescue my brother TYEBOY!!!!!! Last month lol. Sensible really; by my own admitance it is stupid and dangerous to go it alone st night.

If there are any takers then drop me a PM and i'll give my mobile number. I cant get signal from here, but have intetnet. So can answer PM's and calls on my hands free once I'm on my way.

Lee

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[speerolee]

Looks as if I'm stuck with Kevin as my buddy again.

Here's Kevin with his first bass!!

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[Scoobaru]

Haha I rekon you should feed Kevin lots of ground bait and tie him onto your float. I'm sure you'll both bag up if you did. Sorry I can't join you tonight bud. Good luck tho

 

[speerolee]

Didn't make it out last night, instead went out on chedder valley cider with spearo kevin. This his how the night unfolded:

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[foxfish]

Very good - Halloween soon come....

 

[Scoobaru]

Went for an early morning dip today off chesil. Vis was between 10-12m but unfortunately there wasn't any decent fish around. Between 3 of us we saw 1 big pollack, and one sizeable mullet. The rest consisted of small pollack up to 1.5lb small mullet and big wrasse.

Very nice dive still in clear Vis, diving between 0-14m. Shame really as the spot we went too normally produces lots of bass around 3lb, pollack and mullet a similar size with big bass out deeper. But today we were all out of luck, no big bass for us. The Vis started dropping dramatically when the wind changed direction, and I think most of chesil is going to be very rough and churned up over the next few days ruining the fantastic Vis we've had recently....... Grrrrr. Did anyone else venture out this weekend????

 

[robdigital]

Yes i ventured out, headed toward weymouth area late Saturday afternoon - turned round pretty quick though due to jet ski activity at my first spot. 2nd spot was nice and quiet and soon had 6-7 Bass coming in but just out of range for a "sure shot" -, breathed up again and had a nice close visit which dare i say it made it too easy. Had an early rise this morning to beat the wind but just small Bass/Pollack seen. Lovely vis, and did some recon on an interesting spot for the future. All in all a productive time had just shame its not like that every time!

 

[Scoobaru]

Well done mate. Sounds like an enjoyable dive. Have some rep

 

[robdigital]

Thanks Scoob - might see you out in the wild waters of Dorset one day

 

[Scoobaru]

Yea I'm sure you will. If you do see me pop over an say hi, I'm always trying to out a face to a name an it's good to see how others are doing. Keep up the good work bud