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Another wild weekend

By Sean McSeveny On December 10, 2018 · Add Comment · In Reports
Once again we were battered with another Atlantic gale at the weekend. How come it never seems to blow during the week, then have a lull during the times most of us can fish? It looks like today could be a brilliant day on Chesil. We did have a couple of days this week, where [...]
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Shark Fishing Dorset – Talking Tackle!

By Paul Burridge On December 4, 2018 · 3 Comments · In Boat Fishing
So maybe you’re thinking of getting out amongst our local sharks? The question is with what? Well there are many different opinions on the best tackle for sharks. Some anglers prefer to tackle up lighter and enjoy the sport of smaller sharks where others prefer to tackle up for the monster from the depths and [...]
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Fishin Impossible

By Sean McSeveny On December 1, 2018 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Fishing conditions this week have been brutal to say the least and unfortunately there seems no let up for this weekend, or at least not on Chesil, so if you are in any doubt as to whether the beach is fishable I think you can see from this impressive picture taken this morning by my [...]
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Classic Chesil fishing with double figure Cod

By Sean McSeveny On November 27, 2018 · 2 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
It was one of those weekends that could have been good, or a total blank on Chesil. The tides were dying away, the water was clearing and we still had an easterly wind for the most part. As it turned out, Chesil produced the way it was typically remembered for, by producing a number of [...]
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Big Blondes and Record Breaking Brill

By Sean McSeveny On November 19, 2018 · 1 Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Once again Chesil Beach has produced a cracking weekend of fishing for some. But it wasn’t the Cod that everyone has been seeking, it has been the flat fish that have hit the headlines, with a potential British record breaking Brill and some amazing Rays. Bernard Johnson weighed in a huge Brill of 8lb 3oz, [...]
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Big Bass in November

By Sean McSeveny On November 16, 2018 · 1 Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I did say on Monday that November is one of the best months of the year for big Bass and Ben Male proved exactly that, with a 12lb Bass caught at Seaton on Garfish. I have to admit to never having used Garfish as a bait, other than to catch Garfish, but I had heard that [...]
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Shark Fishing …. Around Portland ???

By Paul Burridge On November 15, 2018 · 4 Comments · In Boat Fishing
Everyone has seen the film right? The large reel, the guttural clicking of a Penn Senator reel before the noise becomes a scream as yards of line roll out faster than you can wind it back on! Most shark anglers live for this. For decades past, Cornwall was always the mecca for shark fishing. In [...]
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Death of a fishing legend

By Sean McSeveny On November 13, 2018 · 4 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
It is with great sadness that I hear the news this morning, of the sudden death of John Wilson, who died after suffering a stroke in his home in Thailand. John was a fishing legend that inspired so many people, myself included. I was lucky enough to meet him once and I was awed by [...]
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Whats happened to Fishing Tails? We are back!

By Sean McSeveny On November 9, 2018 · 17 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I am delighted to say that Fishing Tails is back and will be even better than ever. I won’t bore you with the details as to why I haven’t been around, but I would like to say thank you to those who have supported me over the past few months and have persuaded me to [...]
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2018 Update – Minimum Landing Sizes (MLS) and protection status for common UK Marine fish

By Adrian Crawford On March 16, 2018 · 23 Comments · In Reports
We have updated the MLS page to reflect the new Bass rules for 2018.   The dust has now settled over the new Minimum Landing Size (MLS.) for Bass so we thought it might be interesting to test your knowledge of the MLS. and protection status of some of our most common UK Marine fish. No [...]
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Salmon & the Carp Angler

By Corsican Dave On March 10, 2018 · 3 Comments · In Fishing Abroad, Freshwater Fishing, Reports
John Gierach once wrote “…. how often do you have a chance to get skunked while casting a fourteen-foot spey rod in the shadow of a castle built two hundred years before the American Revolution?” You’ll be thinking that I quite like John Gierach. Well, I think I do. I like his writing and his [...]
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Autumn Fishing in Dorset and Chesil Beach

By Sean McSeveny On September 18, 2017 · 4 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Autumn is without a doubt the best time for sea fishing in Dorset. We still have all the summer species around, but the winter species are now starting to show, so you never know what your next catch will be. It could easily be a hard fighting Smoothound from Seaton or a tasty Cod from [...]
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Bass and Cod on Chesil

By Sean McSeveny On September 11, 2017 · 5 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I am guessing many of you have looked at the weather forecast for the next few days and thought I don’t fancy going out in that. I look at the conditions and it makes me almost tremble with excitement. I know that this is one of the best opportunities that I am going to get, [...]
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A Brief History of Slime: Fly fishing for Carp

By Corsican Dave On August 1, 2017 · 1 Comment · In Freshwater Fishing
At first glance, fly fishing for carp appears to be a very modern phenomenon; all deer-hair pellet flies and punk camo clothing. But you’d be very wrong! What if we told you that fly fishing for carp is probably as old as fishing itself? And the first reference to fly patterns specifically for carp date [...]
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Summer fishing in Dorset

By Sean McSeveny On June 30, 2017 · 3 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
With July only a day away we can finally start talking about summer fishing and what we can expect along the Dorset coast. Lets start with Chesil, which is everyones favourite mark. It certainly hasn’t been on fire recently, but that should start to change as the summer fish as now moving in. Gurnard normally [...]
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Turbot and flat fish surprise on Chesil

By Sean McSeveny On April 7, 2017 · 7 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Turbot are not a fish normally associated with Chesil, but for some reason they are showing on a number of different marks along the beach. Steve Parsons landed this lovely Turbot on crab and ragworm, during a daylight session. A number of larger ones into double figures have been landed on night tides. Local angler [...]
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Mixed Fortunes

By Tom Sheffield On March 29, 2017 · 2 Comments · In Reports, South Devon
Over the past couple of weeks the fishing has remained pretty hit or miss in the South Devon area. The weather has warmed up which has made things feel more pleasant to be out in. The catch rates haven’t warmed up a lot though. Last time I reported on how scratching techniques seemed to be [...]
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LRF Profile – The Long Spined Sea Scorpion

By Ben Bassett On March 23, 2017 · 1 Comment · In Reports, Species
Certain fish species are just icons for their respective scenes. The bass is the poster boy for heavy rock fishing, the carp for specimen coarse fishing and when it comes to LRF, one species is synonymous with the technique, the long spined sea scorpion. It’s easy to see why this species is so popular, it’s [...]
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Scratching in the surf

By Tom Sheffield On March 15, 2017 · 2 Comments · In Reports, South Devon
Now certainly is the time of year when the fishing around South Devon can be particularly tough. The whiting have all but gone leaving the main targets relatively small, not easy to find and you simply have to put the hours in to get great results. This is not exactly an inspiring time for the [...]
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Chasing Winter Silver

By Ben Bassett On March 7, 2017 · 5 Comments · In Plymouth, Reports
On a blustery and damp Monday night in February, I find myself searching for silver. The ‘Tamar Tarpon’ (I unfortunately can’t take credit for that excellent nickname) aka the Atlantic herring, rumoured to be in the river in huge numbers. An LRF angling opportunity on my doorstep I’d be a fool to miss. Not one [...]
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A rough weekend ahead

By Sean McSeveny On February 24, 2017 · 1 Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
The UK is currently being  hit by storm Doris and it looks like it will continue throughout the weekend and into middle of next week. As you can see from this vide shot by Izzy Ismet of Underwater Explorers, conditions on Chesil are pretty rough. This morning the wind has dropped and the beach is [...]
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Whiting Wonderland

By Tom Sheffield On February 16, 2017 · Add Comment · In Reports, South Devon
My fishing trips have been rather one dimensional through January. Following a successful trip first out finally locating a few winter flounder I decided to head out to the open coast for much of the month in search of dabs. These little flatfish have become scarce in South Devon in recent years. A few decent [...]
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LRF Profile – The Giant Goby

By Ben Bassett On February 15, 2017 · 3 Comments · In Reports, Tips
With the continued popularity of Light Rock Fishing, it perplexed me that there are not more detailed guides on mini-fish species. Having spent all of 2016 species hunting, I wanted to put my own mini-guides out there for the intrepid LRF angler, starting with one of the biggest and, in most places, rarest rockpool predator. [...]
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Chesil Beach

By Adrian Crawford On February 10, 2017 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach
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Late winter fishing options

By Sean McSeveny On February 10, 2017 · 6 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
February can be one of the worst months of the year for fishing, especially on Chesil Beach. It is hard to get motivated and leave the warmth of your home, to sit on a windswept and wet beach, just to catch a few Rockling and the odd undersized Whiting. Having said that, I would rather [...]
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A huge Bass and the Flounders are finally in!

By Leo Toms On January 19, 2017 · 5 Comments · In Poole Harbour, Reports
Since  my last post I have devoted all my fishing time to floundering, sadly the catches have not been good. Despite the many hours I’ve dedicated to this pursuit the fishing for myself and others has been dire! Over the Christmas period I fished my first ever match,  “The Hangover Open” run by Steve Lawrence  Expectations were [...]
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Finally Flounder

By Tom Sheffield On January 11, 2017 · 1 Comment · In Reports, South Devon
Long time no post! Apologies for the lack of reports leading up to the New Year. My first little one was born just before Christmas so becoming a new dad has taken up a lot of my time. I’m back out fishing again now and here are some reports from sessions before Christmas and the [...]
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‘Eel’y bad fishing

By Leo Toms On December 22, 2016 · 2 Comments · In Poole Harbour, Reports
Since my last post all my fishing time has been devoted to flounder fishing in the harbour, normally by now I would be  telling anybody that will listen that this time of year is one of the best times of year to be doing this. However for the last month I have been fishing at least [...]
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Whiting Everywhere

By Tom Sheffield On December 9, 2016 · 1 Comment · In Reports, South Devon
Journeying around the South Devon coastline visiting different venues, the fishing has become pretty tough in the past couple of weeks, typical of this time of year. The weather certainly hasn’t helped matters. East winds have buffeted the coast for nearly two weeks, not a friendly wind direction for most of the open coastline in [...]
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Cod fishing has gone flat

By Sean McSeveny On December 5, 2016 · 3 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Well what can I say? Another weekend with very few codling on Chesil and the few that were caught were all pretty small. I would love to know what happened to all those fish we had for the past two years . I expected to see a good number of Cod in the 8-10lb range [...]
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Calling all Sea Anglers

By Adrian Crawford On November 29, 2016 · 1 Comment · In News, Reports
If like us you are fed up with getting the rough end of the stick when it comes to fishing restrictions and bans, here is an opportunity to fight back and help show quite how important sea angling is to the UK. Seaangling.org is has launched a project called Sea Angling 2017 which aims to collect [...]
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It’s time for Flounder

By Tom Sheffield On November 24, 2016 · 1 Comment · In Reports, South Devon
In South Devon the first frosty days of Autumn stir many anglers minds towards digging out the light rods and making their way down to one of the local estuaries in search of a big flounder. The British record flounder was caught in the River Teign in the 1990s, a monster of 5lb 7oz. Each [...]
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Garfish – The LRF Acrobat

By Ben Bassett On November 24, 2016 · 1 Comment · In Lure, Plymouth, Reports, Tips
Bizarre, aggressive and athletic – there are few more entertaining fish than the gar. A streamlined pelagic predator, they become a regular catch to shore anglers from late summer to winter’s beginning. Following the baitfish shoals along with the mackerel; fisherfolk all around the country can quite realistically go out and catch one. But why [...]
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South Devon Tails

By Tom Sheffield On November 22, 2016 · 1 Comment · In Reports, South Devon
Hello from South Devon! My name is Tom Sheffield and I have been fishing the coastline around this area for the past 16 years. After talking to Sean recently I agreed to become a contributor for Fishing Tails reporting my exploits from this wonderful section of coastline. We are truly blessed in South Devon to [...]
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Huge Cod from Chesil

By Sean McSeveny On November 21, 2016 · 1 Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
On Friday my headline was “The Cod are coming”. Unfortunatly it would seem that the Cod failed to read my article and decided to go somewhere else. So far the cod fishing has been very poor. However Robert Moore proved that there are some good caught to be caught, when he landed this monster at [...]
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The Cod are coming.

By Sean McSeveny On November 18, 2016 · Add Comment · In Reports
It is not too often that I welcome a spell of bad weather, but I have been waiting ages for a big blow to come through and really stir up Chesil beach. Finally it arrived yesterday and looking at the beach this morning it is exactly what I had hoped for. I would be quite [...]
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The Squid are in

By Sean McSeveny On November 11, 2016 · 2 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Calm seas, building tides and good water visibiity all combine to make great Squid fishing conditions. Both  Weymouth pleasure and stone pier are good locations, as are the piers towards Bournemouth. Squid fishing isn’t limited to the piers as Christopher Luke found out whilst fishing in Chesil Cove. The main question I am getting this week [...]
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The fun world of L.R.F

By Jamie Sandford On November 9, 2016 · Add Comment · In Reports
The fun world of L.R.F. Hello everyone, It’s been a few months since I’ve written anything for the FT webpage and as 2016 comes to an end I thought I’d put a little piece together with regards to my local L.R.F adventures over the last 12 months. Ive wanted to write some material for a [...]
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Last cast Pouting

By Leo Toms On November 3, 2016 · 6 Comments · In Poole Harbour, Reports
Midweek with lots of productive venues nearby I decided to fish Lake Pier beach, principally to see if there were any flounder to be caught. However on arriving at the large car park I found that it was packed! Apparently I had picked the one night a club match was taking place, one more thing [...]
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Cod Competition results

By Sean McSeveny On October 31, 2016 · 1 Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Yesterday was the Weymouth Angling Centre Chesil Beach Cod Open at Abbotsbury. With a top prize of a £1000 Heaviest Bag (cod only) and a second large prize of £500 for the heaviest  It will come as no surprise that a lot of anglers entered. What was a surprise was the lack of Cod. The past [...]
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We are back

By Sean McSeveny On October 26, 2016 · 10 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
First I would like to apologise for the lack of posts over the last 2 weeks, I have been dealing with a lot of personal issues which has meant I’ve not been  unable to devote as much time as I usually do to the site . Hopefully  things will become less trying soon and we can [...]
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Summer fishing in October

By Sean McSeveny On October 14, 2016 · 3 Comments · In Reports
We are having a spell of great weather for the time of year and also a great run of fish. Not the Cod that everyone seems desperate to catch, but Plaice, Bream and Gurnard. I had a busy week guiding for most part and I was lucky enough to find a lot of Plaice. Thankfully [...]
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Searching for Cod Bass or Plaice

By Adrian Crawford On October 10, 2016 · Add Comment · In Admin, News, Reports
    Sorry no post from Sean today due to personal reasons, so instead I get to talk about some new and some not so new  additions to the site that may have passed you by. First you may have noticed we have a new search option which replaces our old one which was pretty [...]
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Will there be Cod this weekend?

By Sean McSeveny On October 7, 2016 · 1 Comment · In Reports
I have been asked a number of times already this week, if I think it will be any good for Cod this weekend, especially as we have fairly stiff North Easterly winds. Well despite the almost calm conditions on the beach, I am pretty certain that there will be a few Cod caught. Chris Buxton [...]
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Sandbanks for weed, Plaice and a P.B. Bass

By Leo Toms On October 4, 2016 · 2 Comments · In Poole Harbour, Reports
  As Sean had predicted the winds proved spot on for cod fishing at chesil, with many fine fish being caught. However with my wife nabbing the car I chose to fish closer to home at the Sandbanks on Saturday. It was no real hardship as I had a feeling there maybe a plaice or two [...]
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Bream bonanza

By Sean McSeveny On October 3, 2016 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Can there be such a thing as too many Bream? Only if your double whole squid bait that you are using to target Cod, is eaten in a matter of minutes by the hoards of locust like Bream. That was exactly what happened to me at the weekend on Chesil. most were the size of [...]
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Early Cod and late Bream. Its all happening

By Sean McSeveny On September 30, 2016 · 3 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Finally,  the good fishing that we expect on Chesil in September, has kicked in. its just a shame that it has taken until almost October. Anyway enough of my complaining, I dont have time, as I don’t want to miss the great conditions that we have today.  It looks perfect for Bass and Cod and [...]
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Honeypot Lakes Catfish Open Match Report – Round Two

By Sam Tittensor On September 28, 2016 · Add Comment · In Freshwater Fishing
Following our success in the first Honeypot Pairs Catfish Match, my partner Ben and I were quick to sign up when the time came for Round 2. By arriving early, we gave ourselves time to walk around the lakes before the match started, enabling us to make educated decisions during the draw. We came out [...]
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Drifting into Autumn for plaice and gilthead bream

By Leo Toms On September 27, 2016 · 1 Comment · In Poole Harbour, Reports
After a couple of failed weekends chasing the weather and some early cod at Chesil, I decided to set my sights a little closer to home.  Gilthead bream had been showing up on many marks around the harbour and a confirmed report of one particularly fine specimen being caught at the lake pier in Hamworthy caught my [...]
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Plaice and bait fish

By Sean McSeveny On September 23, 2016 · 1 Comment · In Reports
Things are looking up again on Chesil, the bait fish have returned along with the mackerel and we have seen some impressive catches of Plaice and Sole. I even managed to catch Plaice myself As I mentioned earlier in the week they are at range. However they seem happy to take just about any bait [...]
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