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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On March 11, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I take my hat off to anyone that goes out fishing today. It is freezing and the wind chill is going to make it feel even colder. It is one of those days that I wish I could stay inside and write some more articles, instead I am going to be working outside all day. [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On March 9, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
This week marks the 1st anniversary of the site, and I have to say I am amazed at how successful it has been. Looking at my stats from March to December last year the site had just short of 3 million hits. Since January this year it has already had almost 1.1 million hits. This encourages me [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On March 7, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
After months of planning I can finally announce that I have added a whole new dimension to my guiding and fishing lessons. Starting next month I will be running a shoreline fishing course with River Cottage. This unique and exciting course will see you learning fishing skills with me for half the day, before we bring you back [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On March 5, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Some good news for me, it looks like I have a serviceable Mac again. I will need to sort out some of the software and do some upgrades to the software, but things are looking up. Can the same be said for the fishing? Well it is steadily improving as our regular contributor Leo reports. [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On March 4, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
If I  get this forecast out I will be astounded. Continual problems with software and no Mac meens I am still strugglining. I think I am going to launch an appeal to help buy a new Mac. I would go out and buy a laptop but all my licensed software is for a Mac and [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On March 1, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I can’t believe it is March already. I start to get excited in March, as I know so of our favourite species start to return and then before you know it the summer species arrive 🙂 I know we are not quite at that stage yet but I certainly expect to see a lot more [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On February 27, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I have finally got my car back, so I can get out and about again. I may well head out towards Cogden as my mate is going to be fishing   down there today. He managed 3 Plaice and a load of Rockling from the same mark yesterday. Interestingly he had the Plaice on Ragworm [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On February 25, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Very mixed results from various marks this weekend. I know quite a few people headed of in search of the Plaice and most were unsuccessful. There were a few exceptions with a couple of thin 3lb fish coming from the left of West Bexington. What I have been surprised at is the number of Smoothound that [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On February 24, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I had hoped to get out to West Bexington with my mate today, but unfortunately I have to go car hunting instead. Maybe that’s not such a bad thing in these temperatures. I take my hat off to all of you that are out there fishing in this cold, I see from Windguru that with the wind chill [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On February 22, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I mentioned the strong Easterly winds were creating a bit of surf on Weymouth Esplanade and along to Preston. It seems that it has brought in quite a few Bass that I was not expecting this time of year. A very reliable source went out yesterday afternoon and fished over high water and into darkness for [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On February 21, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Strong Easterly winds are going to take quite a few marks out today, but it will open out a few more. Chesil will be pretty flat, the calm conditions and lack of rain will soon see the water clearing. Which is what I am hoping for because reports coming in say that there are quite [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On February 19, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Still struggling with no Mac, so sorry for the lack of frequency of the posts at the moment. The weekend has pretty much gone as I expected with about 10% of anglers that targeted Plaice actually managing to catch some   spotties, and some of them were decent fish.  A couple were over 3lb and [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On February 16, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Light winds, some sunshine and almost calm conditions on Chesil. Ideal for a days Plaice fishing, and yes there are some Plaice showing. It seems that each year the Plaice are getting earlier and earlier, and this year is no exception. Other Plaice marks along the South coast such as Eastney and Brighton have reported [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On February 14, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Sorry for the lack of updates over the past couple of days and not finishing the LRF article I have been promising for ages. Unfortunately my Mac has died on me again, this time I think it is beyond repair, so I have borrowed my Son’s beat up laptop. Until I can recover some of the [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On February 11, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I mentioned yesterday that I had heard rumours of Plaice being caught on Chesil. Well I finally got two confirmed reports that the first of the Plaice are returning from Spawning. The fish are as you would expect in poor condition, and looking rather thin. The first of the fish have turned up at West [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On February 10, 2013 · 1 Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
According to the weather forecast it is going to rain all day today, again. To be honest with the lack of fish at the moment it should give me an excuse to make up some rigs and maybe pour some more soft plastic lures. I fished on Portland yesterday and even the Wrasse were thin [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On February 8, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Oh how I wish I had great news of loads of fish being caught all along the Dorset coast, but I don’t. No point in lying, right now it sucks. Is that going to get me down? No! because I am hoping that the water will clear a bit more over the next day or [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On February 6, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I have just had a look at Chesil and despite what the channel wave buoy’s are saying, Chesil is fishable. There is a bit of a swell but the surf run off is not too big. There is a lot of colour in the water, that might bring in the odd Cod that is still [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On February 4, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I think this weekend has to have been one of the worst for fishing for a long time. It is pretty normal for the fishing to switch off during January and February. We have been pretty lucky this year that it has lasted so long. I think the best we can do now is spend [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On February 2, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I hope you are not sat at home reading this instead of being out there chasing the fish on Chesil. Conditions are near perfect for a chance of a decent fish today. The Northerly wind maybe cold, but you will be fairly sheltered on Chesil. I had a look  at the beach at Abbotsbury on [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On February 1, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
For once the weather is doing what it is forecast to do, and the winds have settled down and swung round to be more Northerly. Chesil beach has already calmed down to a much safer level and it looks very good for fishing. With high water at around 10pm this evening I can see some [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On January 29, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Well it is pretty rough out there again at the moment, to the point that it is unsafe to fish Chesil Beach. However I hope you have your bait booked and a day of work tomorrow, because looking at the wind forecast it will start to die down this afternoon. Sometime in the early hours [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On January 28, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
The rough weather yesterday has stirred the beach up again, which will improve the chance of picking up a late Cod. At the moment the beach is full of dogfish and I do mean full. Anglers fishing all along the beach have reported as many as 50 Dogfish in a session. The rough weather might [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On January 26, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
If you are thinking of fishing Chesil this weekend, I would get your gear and head on down there as soon as you can. Looking at Windguru there is a lot of wind heading our way. It is going to be coming from all over the place today before settling into a steady strong wind [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On January 24, 2013 · 2 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Well I wish I had lots of new interesting news and reports to give you today, but unfortunately we are in the middle of January and not a lot happens. If you fancy some beach fishing then there is one piece of good news, it would seem that there are still some Cod on the [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On January 21, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
An Easterly wind and a good bit of surf running on Chesil, if it was the summer I would say get out and catch some Bass. It is still worth a go even though the temperature has fallen below that magic 9 degree mark. The Commercial Bass boats are still catching plenty of Bass in [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth

By Sean McSeveny On January 19, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Yesterdays snow kept most people off the beach, but with slightly better if not colder conditions today, I would think that quite a few more people will be out trying for a late Cod and some of the Whiting that seem plentiful at the moment. I have no idea when the colour will drop from [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth. 17th January 2013

By Sean McSeveny On January 17, 2013 · 1 Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I spent the past two days fishing with not a lot to show for it. Yesterdays boat trip was a disaster. A totally incompetent skipper that spent most of his time in the wheelhouse throwing up put us in danger on more than one occasion. I will be looking for another charter boat before I [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth. 15th January 2013

By Sean McSeveny On January 15, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I am sure a lot of you that are logging on today are thinking what the!! Has he not sorted this update out yet? Well the answer is a simple no. I know it looks a mess at the moment, but it will look great when it is all finished and the colours and backgrounds [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth. 14th January 2013

By Sean McSeveny On January 14, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
It is going to be a day of disruptions on the site today as I try to get the new look site up ad running. It seems that Chesil fished pretty much as I expected it to over the weekend. A few Cod were caught, but most of the fish were the normal nuisance fish [...]
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Delay in forecast for 14th January 2013

By Sean McSeveny On January 14, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Sorry for the delay on todays forecast but I am having lots of problems with the new site. Todays forecast will go live at 10am.
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Site disruption on Sunday the 13th of January

By Sean McSeveny On January 13, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
If you are seeing this message and you can’t see your normal fishing forecast then don’t worry too much. I have finally got round to the promised changes on the site. However as some of the work has to be carried whilst the site is live some of the normal functionality may not be in [...]
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Catch report & fishing forecast for Dorset including Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth. 13th January 2013

By Sean McSeveny On January 13, 2013 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Just been down and had a look at Chesil and it looks great for fishing. The water is still nice and coloured with a bit of a swell, making it perfect for some winter fishing. There are plenty of Whiting around, especially at night, with a couple of Cod thrown in. Most of the Cod [...]
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Fishing the Fraser River in Canada for White Sturgeon

By Sean McSeveny On November 25, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Chesil Beach, Fishing Abroad, Reports
Right now I am sat in the departure lounge in Manaus in Brazil, looking forward to getting home. Some of you guys know that I have been away for the past couple of weeks filming a program that will go out on National Geographic Channel in the spring of next year. I am not allowed [...]
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Cod special fishing forecast for Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth. 6th October 2012

By Sean McSeveny On October 6, 2012 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
What a day it was yesterday. I was up and ready to go to work on the river at 7 o’clock when I got a call to say that due to the high water levels it was too dangerous to work. So where to go fishing was my first thought. I had it in mind [...]
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Fishing forecast for Chesil Beach, Portland & Weymouth. 20th September 2012

By Sean McSeveny On September 20, 2012 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
This is not the normal format that most of you are used to this morning. This is mainly due to the high number of guiding sessions that I am doing at the moment. The upside is that I am really in touch with where the fish are and so I have been able to give [...]
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Boat fishing report from Weymouth & Portland 20th June 2012

By Sean McSeveny On June 22, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Boat Fishing, Chesil Beach, Reports
I was lucky enough to be invited out on my friend Fraser’s boat this week. Fraser works abroad in 5 week stints, so the 5 weeks he has off he makes the most of them by going out on his Antares 640 almost every day. The last time he was home I gave him one [...]
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Fishing forecast for Chesil Beach, Weymouth, Portland & Kimmeridge Bay. 24th April 2012

By Sean McSeveny On April 24, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Another typical April day, with plenty of showers and wind coming from every direction throughout the day. Wind forecast:  SW 16mph. Current wind: NW 10mph Sea conditions: The colour has dropped out of the water leaving it with just a milky tinge, but there is still a good bit of swell running. The water around [...]
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Catch report Weymouth boats

By Sean McSeveny On April 4, 2012 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I spent a day out on Paul Whittals Offshore Rebel yesterday, targeting Plaice and Turbot on the Shambles Bank. Straight from the off we had some very nice Plaice. The really interesting point was that most of them came on raw king prawns. When Paul told me the day before to bring some as bait [...]
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Catch report for Chesil Beach, Weymouth, Portland & Kimmeridge Bay. 26th March

By Sean McSeveny On March 26, 2012 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Another great weekend of fishing from all along the Dorset coast. The slowly increasing water tempreture is bringing some nice fish in. Plenty of Plaice, Dabs, Smoothound, Dogfish and Mackerel have been landed to the western end of Chesil. Marks  from Cogden all the way to the left of Abbotsbury were packed at the weekend. [...]
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Catch report Chesil Beach, Weymouth, Portland and Kimmeridge Bay 24th March.

By Sean McSeveny On March 24, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I had no plans of doing a catch report until Monday, however the amount of fish coming in from all over makes a good post. Boat fishing this past week has been incredible. Pollock are coming from both inshore and offshore marks in plentiful numbers. Another massive 30lb Turbot was caught on Friday from the [...]
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Catch report from Chesil Beach, Weymouth, Portland and Kimmeridge bay, 23rd March

By Sean McSeveny On March 22, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
  We have had some fantastic early spring fishing this week, both from the shore and boat. Plenty of Plaice from the Western End of Chesil, with Rays showing all the way from Lyme Regis to the Bridging Camp, where an 11lb Thornback was caught. Loads of Smoothound have come on the night tides from [...]
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Catch report from Chesil Beach, Weymouth, Portland and Kimmeridge bay

By Sean McSeveny On March 19, 2012 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Once again a great weekend’s fishing has been and gone. Despite the small tides, West Bexington and Abbotsbury fished reasonably well for Plaice and Dabs. Most came to the anglers that could hit that 100yd mark with their baits. Several local anglers notched up mixed bags of Plaice, dabs, flounder and Rockling with numbers exceeding [...]
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Chesil Beach, Weymouth and Portland catch report

By Sean McSeveny On March 16, 2012 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Shore: Plenty of Plaice from West Bexington and Cogden yesterday with a Bonus Small Eyed Ray at Abbotsbury. Portland Bill fished well for Pollock at dusk with one angler landing a dozen in an hour, with the biggest going to 4lb. A few rockling also featured amongst the catch after dark. Not much happening from [...]
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Chesil Beach, Weymouth and Portland shore and boat catch report 13 March 2012

By Sean McSeveny On March 13, 2012 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Well what a great weekend we have just had. As predicted the Plaice were not going to really oblige due to the big tides. The ones that were caught mainly came at range and on the slack periods. Several anglers managed half a dozen in a session, but most blanked. There was some nice ones [...]
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Chasing the Plaice at West Bexington 2nd March

By Sean McSeveny On March 3, 2012 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Having been told of quite a few Plaice coming form Cogden and West Bexington, I thought I would give it a go. I stopped of at Chesil Bait n Tackle in Weymouth to pick up some rag and lug worm.   When I arrived at the car park i could see about a dozen anglers [...]
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