Gilthead Bream Fishing in Dorset

Peeler or hardback crab on a running ledger to the channel edge at mid–late flood in summer. Use light snoods; bites can be sharp and fast.

May-Oct; peeler crab or rag/maddies on size 1-2 hooks; fish sandy patches by tide-run gullies on the flood, bites often close in.

Peeler or hardback crab on a running rig into channel edges on the flood. Late spring to autumn, brightest days or dusk. Keep rigs tight as tide rips past.

May–Oct on peeler crab or rag; fish over clean sand/mud on the flood. Light rigs, size 2–1 hooks, small baits. Calm, bright days can fish well.

Peeler or hard crab on a running rig into sandy gullies by weed patches; late spring to early autumn, best on the flood and at dusk.

Late spring–autumn. Peeler/hard crab to channel edges on the flood; light running rigs, strong small hooks, strike at feeler bites.

Jun–Oct; fish peeler or hardback crab on light rigs near the channel edges on a flooding neap. Keep baits tight to the sand patches.

Fresh crab or lug/rag tipped with crab over clean/mixed ground near tide-run edges and moorings. Warm, settled spells May–Sept; fish light and let them run.

Crab or prawn on size 2–1 hooks in Portland Harbour/Fleet margins near Ferrybridge. Warm months on the flood with light running rigs.

Late spring–autumn; peeler/hardback crab on size 2–4, cast to channels and eelgrass edges on a flooding evening tide.

Peeler or hardback crab on strong gear, short cast onto the sand edge from the sandbank on a flooding evening tide, summer.

Target clean sand fringes with peeler or hardback crab on size 2–1 hooks, summer evenings on the flood; keep drag light for powerful runs.