Rod took off whilst sea fishing UK 2024

What a fishing session this was. After a few weeks of not being able to go fishing due to illness, I was suffering with sea fishing withdrawals however. although my health had improved, the tides, weather etc were not so good so again I had to wait. Finally the weather and tidal flow looked good and I was ready for a sea fishing session from the beach at Bridport, Dorset, UK.
Before venturing out to sea fish, I prepared the Mackerel and Squid into half and half cocktail sausage style baits. I had saved 4 whole Squid that I intended to use later in the evening in the hope of catching a Bass. Also, just in case there were crabs about attacking my bait I would be able to use the Squid with a balsa wood pop up inside to give a little buoyancy (this type of pop up baiting up is available to view on my TH-cam channel). This type of pop up bait provides buoyancy keeping the bait off the sea bed floor and hopefully helping to keep the crabs from getting it.
With a moderate sea flow and a slight bit of colour in the water I decided to use a pulley rig and because I was using a sausage style bait, a pennel hook was also used in order to keep the bait held in place and provide an additional potential way of hooking a fish.
I used a 3/0 J hook as the main hook and a 1/0 half circle hook as the pennel. As the sea tidal flow was only moderate, I decided to use my Century T700 fishing rod, the ultimate rod for sea fishing from the beach on smooth ground in my opinion and easy to cast at a fair distance with a simple overhead thump.
Sea fishing UK 2024 on Chesil, Dorset started by losing a fish in the surf within minutes of fishing however, I did get a glance at the fish and I was fairly sure it was a small (strap) Conger Eel so no big loss there. It was later on when I was caught out with what happend but, I was overjoyed.
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