I had my suspicions that a shore caught cuckoo would end up being a tricky customer, and unfortunately, they were! The trouble is that cuckoos generally like to live in deep water, and that isn’t something that’s super abundant within casting range of the Dorset coast… I would guesstimate that most of my favourite Dorset […]
I’d love to know the origins of the rock cook’s name, but a search hasn’t thrown anything up. I wondered if cook had some second meaning in Old English, or Cornish – but it looks as if it simply means to cook and always has done, so I’m stumped! Whilst I didn’t observe this petite […]
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 […]