Smoothhound Fishing in Somerset

May-Sep. Fish the flood into dusk from the outer wall. Fresh peeler crab on pulley rig with 3/0 circle. Aim for clean sand channels, 60-80 m casts. Neap tides fish best.

May–Sep; peeler crab on pulley rigs, 40–80 yd to sand gullies on the flood. Best at dusk through first 2 hrs of the ebb.

Late spring–autumn. Peeler crab on pulley rigs into gutters; fish last 2 hrs of flood into dusk. Use gripleads in tide.

May–Sep; peeler crab on running ledger in deeper gutters on the flood. Fish 2–3 hrs either side of high on spring tides; 20–60 yd casts. Circle hooks aid quick release.

May-Sep with fresh peeler crab. Target sand channels on the flood into dusk; medium-range casts. Use strong snoods and release quickly.

May–Sept on peeler crab. Cast to gutter edges on the push into dusk; grip leads hold in tide. Keep baits fresh; move to find fish.

Summer nights on the flood; fresh crab baits over clean sand. Short to medium casts into moving water produce.

May–Sep. Peeler crab on long-snood pulley; first 2 hrs of flood over sandbanks/gutters. Use wired leads to hold in strong tide.

Jun-Sep. Crab baits on pulley or running ledger; fish the flood into HW along rough-to-sand edges. Use strong hooks; release quickly.

First of the flood into dark; peeler crab on strong grip leads in channels. Late May-Aug; present baits just downtide of bars and gutters.

Peeler crab on pulley/paternoster; target deeper run-offs and channels; June-Sept on the flood. Release promptly.

Late May–Sept on peeler crab; aim for cleaner patches at range on the flood. Neap tides help in the strong run.

Jun–Aug. Peeler crab, 20–50m. Flood to HW in settled seas. 40–60lb mono hooklengths and 5–6oz grip leads handle the tide.

Late spring-summer on peeler crab; fish the flood along sandbars and channel mouths. Use 5-6oz grip leads and 3-4ft mono traces.

Late May–Aug. Peelers or soft crab on the flood into dusk. Cast to cleaner patches between kelp; pulley rigs and strong grippers.

Late May–Sep on bigger floods. Peeler crab on 3–4/0 hooks, cast to tide runs beyond kelp. Hold the rod for powerful runs.

Summer; peeler or hermit crab two hours either side of high on mixed ground. Use grip leads in the tide; 40–80 m casts.

Peeler crab baits on flooding tide May–Aug; fish where tide run eases behind bars/groynes.

Late spring–autumn; peeler/hardback crab at range onto cleaner patches on the flood. Use grip leads to hold in tide run.