Fished Dungeness for years,along with Denge Marsh & Galloways,had some brilliant sessions,happy days & nights.

Awesome again Matt, fished there a lot in my teens, caught some nice bass, big cod ,heaps of dabs , and good sized whiting, never caught a dog fish.weather here hot and very humid ,hope 2 get out Saturday and fish the FADS in my mates boat ,hopefully get stuck into some dolphin fish .Happy catching from Australia Nick

Used to fish Dungie a lot back in the day , the beach would be lined with Anglers , had some good Cod and Bass from there , , stopped going because of the doggies and pin whiting , no cod to eat them anymore

Fantastic video, great to watch after work.

Nice one Matt, I went on Friday was plagued with small fish but had a good day, getting out and doing a bit is what matters. Thanks for the video and have a great Christmas, thanks for all your video's 👍👍👍🎣🎣🎣

Used to fish dungeness in the 70s 80s plenty of cod back then like everywhere else been out fished

I used to live on coastal drive me and me brother with our wicked auntie who had ice cream parlour in New Romney back in the 70s I've been back to fish Dungeness to many bad memories and good ones too !

Fantastic, peace and quiet, fishing and a dog (4 legged one!). What more! Cheers Matt, appreciate your videos

Hi Matt I’ve been watching your videos for a bit because I’m new to fishing I just want to say I respect you a lot and love your videos keep up the work 👍

Thanks bud and you 🎉

Hi Matt, I've been watching the channel for some time now. I only get to sea fish once a year when on holiday for the week, but I really look forward to it. Thanks for making all these videos, I'm learning loads 👍😃

Well done

360 man👌😎🎣

Great video, as always, Matt. I'd take a dogfish any day rather than blank. Great to see Nellie enjoying a days fishing and nice to have commentary back. 👍

Love your videos really chill me out

Great fishing dungeons absolutely love it

Thanks for sharing this video. Great content as usual 👏 👌.

In the eighties, when the cod were in close, anglers would have used that small whiting as bait for the Big Cod! I remember reading John Darlings great articles on fishing Dungie. I fished there regularly in the Winter months through the late 70s and early 80s. I caught all sorts of fish including Whiting,Codling, Bass, flatties,but never got the double figure cod. It wasn’t from lack of trying! Never caught a Dog fish there ever!

Great video mate as always 👍

Remember those I was the one with John Darling in those bays, will never see it again 70 - 100lb of cod on a 4- 5 hour trip over top of the tide. Only ever used single black lug, dug down behind the range.

I had heard that Dungie was plagued by small doggies - proved that one! You are so right about the tide pull there especially on a bigger tide. Well done on sticking it out though.

Thank you again for the great video :) Whenever I see those weeds while fishing with lures, I go straight back to home 🤣, I hate those weeds.

Would like to try this mark soon looks tranquil. Yeah this year seems to be especially quiet on the cod front sad times. Seems to be a few more up north might have to venture up there on the spring run next year . Tight lines and thanks for another enjoyable watch 🫡

Good my Fishing friend Wonderful 👍

That's a lot of doggies. They must be having their annual Crimbo party just offshore?😅 Have a great Christmas Matt, and a very fishy new year.

It's lovely to get out this time of year even if the bait you're chucking out has more fight than the fish you're reeling in!

Night fishing in Dungeness is best I used to have the key to get car right down pass GATE as close as possible to shore otherwise it's long walk on those people's from pub or lighthouse or RD

me and my mate done a couple of overnighters up there in the late summer near the boats was so much plastic in the seaweed could of filled a carrier bag :/ was a dogfest then too haha

i run a PENN TIDAL XR an i love it nice an strong don't have to work hard an haven't fixed spool reels come a long way from the seventy's

I moved to Scotland 35 years ago. I've not followed the fishing media much, so I'm SO surprised that nobody catches cod from there any more ?? Seriously ??? it was such a great venue and really popular . I used to combine fishing and birdwatching . wonderful place ! . Very sad to hear .

Two m8s in 1977 fished christmas eve When they finished their session they made a quite macabre greeting. It read .. MERRY CHRISTMAS 1977.... 😮😮😮 IN CODS heads.. each letter was 2ft high and each head was touching....

Great video Matt and a hard days fishing with plenty of fish. Catching much the same here in broadstairs but the whiting seem to be on the small side. How do you rate shellfish baits? Loads of limpets here and I have been told they can be a good bass bait. Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Best wishes Dave

History lesson. In 1941/42 the winter was one of the worst for over 50 years.. the cod spawned as usual BUT because it was indeed so cold the cod fry Usual predators i.e mackerel, whitting, herring were driven off into much deeper warmer water. Hence the year class was phenomenal for over 20 years years. ( Bear in mind trawlers didn't have the electronics they have today.). So catches were much smaller, plus the fish carried on breeding in later years... This is why the fishing was so good from the shore again even without the rods n reels of today..... Now move forward to the winter of 1963.. THE EXACT SAME THING happened AGAIN... well it doesn't take a genius to work out why we had it so good until the early 1980... Sadly these fish got totally fished out and hence why its dire at Dungeness now. Ok the odd decent fish does pop up but nothing like it was.. As rods and reels improved its easy to see why it was outstanding. Along with improved casting techniques developed by the likes of Les Moncreff Terry Carrol Neil Mckellow Paul kerry And last but certainly not least Alan Yeates... With the average trawler with a wheelhouse like the Apollo space program is it any wonder the fish were totally wiped out... But we did have a slight improvement following the winter of 2010 when it froze for 6/7 weeks. But with not enough fish to breed heavily it didn't last... so those that fished from say 1966 》 1980.. Had the golden period of it.... Funnily you can equate this periods where the cod got wiped out with the arrival of the dreaded DOGFISH.... Because exactly the same thing happened at the other cod mecca in the time above ... CHESIL BEACH.....

Matt why don’t you use rod tip protectors and strap the butts and tips together with the reels on ? That will save having dodgy reel fittings further down the line.atb mate

So what's the parking like i stopped going to Dungeness years ago as i didn't want my car broken in too!

How do you live bait a whiting?

Do the fish glow green in the dark? If so don’t eat there radioactive .

You don't catch big fish small cod all you get is small plaice flounder small dog fish nothing to get excited about you need a boat and go out half a mile makes a big difference

Prior to the EU stripping our waters by ignoring predatory Spanish and French he would be catching 10lbs + cod.

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Didn't realise that the fishing was so poor at Dungeness these days. If that was a typical day it wasn't worth the effort of getting there. When I last fished there, about 1962 you'd have got a nice big bag of eatable cod at this time of year.

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