Dungeness, Kent expertise required

[Pete B]

Hello all,
Wondered if anyone had fished Dungy of late, Im due there Friday & have heard of some good codling reports to Kent beaches ( tackle shop chat!) - can anyone confirm?
Are the dabs & whiting going well?
Cheers!

[Metal_Micky]

Im fishing dungy this evening, i'll let you know how it goes when i come back about 9pm. I work with an england under 19 angler, so i'll see what he has to say about it too. Catch ya later

[Pete B]

Just spoke to Anton from Lock, Stock & tackle (Copnor Rd branch) & he had heard of some of the Kent beaches producing big numbers of small codling to the point that they were out-numbering the whiting! .... Probably all of the Kent coast other than Dungy!

[Metal_Micky]

Hi Pete, just returned from dungy, not the best news in the world. I started at 3pm and didn't see anyone catch a fish in the last hour and a bit of daylight. I got my first bite well after high tide, and finished with 6 dabs, and 7 whiting. 4 of the dabs were tiny. All but 1 of the fish were hooked on 4 day old commons that i rolled and froze last week. tiny baits really, on a size 6 and 4 hook. Most of the anglers left the beach early having caught not very much. I spoke with a couple of blokes who didn't sound very optimistic, no codling had come out to there knowledge in the last couple of days. As for other marks around here, there are a few codling, but its mainly whiting and the odd dab or doggie. I'll let you know if any better reports come along, as i speak with a few match anglers regularly. Hopefully a few more dabs will turn up soon, its just a bit hit and miss (like normal then)

I'm fishing the 6th green on deal golf course tomorrow, I'll post results in the evening

[Pete B]

oh well Mick, it was far from a blank. I've got down to dungy twice in the last few yrs over the xmas / new yr period & the dabs & whiting were plentiful, literally 3 hooks out = 3 dabs back! We would take the better whiting with mackeral baits. Looking forward to tomorows report mate, cheers

[Metal_Micky]

Just come back from the 6th green, chequers Inn, on Deal golf course. Had a better trip than most from what we saw. I finished with 17 whiting, 3 dabs and 3 pout, my twin brother kevin had 5 whiting, he was fishing the same as me, but lost or missed a load of bites. We were using size4 hooks with half a black as bait. 4 blokes next to us, did pretty poor, we only saw a couple of fish go to them. So all in all a good trip for us really. Still trying to locate the dab shoals. No codling at all from what we saw.

[baldric]

Is it me or just my luck........ seems to me that on the east coast the best fishing is at dusk & onwards, every time i fish in the day i blank! this was the same at dungy !!!!
Anyone have the same results

[Metal_Micky]

We caught all our fish in the dark this evening m8. I dont go sea fishing very often in the day, as i think there are 10 times the fish to be had at night or very last knockings of light. The only time i day fish is when i take my kid sole fishing in the summer, and thats only when the water is churned up a bit.

I dont know if it makes much odds, but i cant cast all that far, 70 to 80 yards at most, so i reckon the fish come in closer in the dark and thats why i get a few more perhaps.