Andy135

Good luck in your new tub @Dicky!

Which one's your new one? Blue one?

After dabs you say?? 🤔🤣

Good going! And great to see a catch report being posted after so long. 👍 Weather has been atrocious lately.

Definitely 🤮

One man's tat is another man's treasure 🤷‍♂️.

Do they catch jig-nabbers too?

They didn't exactly cover themselves in glory did they....

Yes, it's strange but it is what it is. Seabob's tutorial sounds like just the sort of content that would be relevant and useful on here. Thanks for suggesting it. Be great if he can be encouraged to share it here too. 👍

Hi @Phil williams, copyright forbids us from copying content on other sites without permission, and I'm fairly sure that one admin in particular over there won't grant permission. However, if you'd like to approach seabob and suggest he posts the same content over here that would be welcome. As the content creator he can post his content wherever he chooses 👍

No, not sure. Not at home to check the jigs I have so it's an estimate from memory.

OK, thanks for checking. Appreciated. Looks like it might still fit smaller jigs though 👍

Good find. Would the compartment sizes of the boxes fit a 200g slow jig by any chance? Would need to be about 15cm by 8ish.

Just links to his profile page as far as I can see. I don't have a FB account so may be different for those signed up?

It was half a side of mackerel on a 6/0 Aberdeen on a wire trace. Half a side i.e. long and thin so a bit like a sandeel, if you squint. Bounced along the bottom over sandy shingle banks off the back of the Needles, IoW.

It certainly tasted brill 👍

@GPSguru is your man for this. I've only caught one turbot before, and that was by accident when drifting for tope 🤣

I believe you don't actually fish the Deep itself for sharks though. From what I've heard you push a bit further out and start the drift east of Dunnose Head and drift west to the the south of the island in 30-40m. Or vice versa depending on the tide. 🤷‍♂️

Or a bad batch?

I hear there are lots of small rubber boats going spare on the south coast...

Bah! Me too. Spent a few seasons trying to work it out. @Hoop once described it as "combat fishing", which sums it up nicely. Tides too fierce to anchor, and too fast to drift effectively most of the time. I had a few bass from the pinnacles and the ledge off Ventor but nothing worth the fuel to get round there. I tried SPJ off St Cat's point once and quickly got fed up of the jig kiting out past the stern. If I was to make the effort to get there again I'd be tempted to drift the series of ledges & broken ground north west of St Cat's lighthouse in Chale Bay. They look to have potential but probably not worth the steam from Pompey/Solent area. A tenner says JDP will be along soon telling us about how well it fished in the good old days before he was deported...

He's a decent chap. We had a good natter with him a few years back when @Davemc , @Tadpole and I did a few days bass blanking over there.

Lovely reel but 7x over-budget 🤣

He needs a fishing rod, not a broom handle Pete 😉