Andy135

Excellent write up! Top hosting too. Sounds like you may have converted the lad into a budding angler. Well done! Did you get a pic of the scorpion fish? Keen to see it if so. 👍

Welcome Adam. 👍

Good work. Looking forward to seeing the reports 👍

Yep, got to have a proper tourist crabbing bucket.

Emily and I hit the Embankment again this morning for an early crabbing session to beat the crowds. Em beat her previous bucket count by three for a new personal best of 17 crabs. In our excitement to tally up our total I forgot to take a pic of the PB bucket, so this'll have to do, about half full. And as usual, Holly kept an eagle eye out for anything vaguely fishy... We also spotted a small compass jellyfish drifting down river, which Em found fascinating. All in all a good way to start the day.

You would have driven right past my parents old home in South Town on the way out of Dartmouth towards Warfleet. We usually take the kids up to the castle for an ice cream every time we visit, and often walk up Gallants Bower on a clear day.

Small world indeed. 👍

Hell no. I work from home remember? No ironing required.

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Don't knock it til you've tried it Geoff! I cook this every week for Mrs135 and I, using cod usually. The prep doesn't take long at all and the finished product is definitely worth it. Give it a shot and surprise Joyce with it. She'll love it 👍

Yep, Holly was allowed out along the embankment today, harnessed to a bollard to stop her chasing seagulls and prevent her stressing her neck. And yes, I chose a crab sans nippers to let the nipper hold. She quickly graduated to holding nippy crabs after that.

Took middle daughter crabbing along the embankment in Dartmouth this afternoon. Brilliant fun for the pair of us 🤣. We tried two spots; our usual mark wasn't firing and only produced four average sized hardback, so we took a short stroll up river and tried a new one by the hire boats which offered up a further ten crabs. We also lost a whopper of an edible brown crab that made it half way up before skydiving back to the river. 😖 Great way to spend some family time together 👍

Ingredients 170g jasmine rice. 2x 1cm cubes of root ginger, finely chopped. 1 tin coconut milk. Small butternut squash, chopped into 2cm cubes. Tenderstem broccoli. Red chilli, finely chopped. Handful of fresh coriander, finely chopped. Soy sauce. Toasted sesame oil. Lime juice. Handful of cashew nuts, chopped. 2 gurnard fillets. Put the jasmine rice, coconut milk, butternut squash, half the ginger and a tablespoon of soy sauce into a lidded ovenproof pan and bake for 40 mins at 180C. While the rice is baking, make the dressing. Mix two tablespoons each of soy sauce, sesame oil and lime juice in a bowl, then add the chilli, coriander and the rest of the ginger. Place the gurnard fillets on a sheet of tin foil and season with salt and pepper and a healthy splash of lime juice before enclosing the fillets in foil. After 40 mins, add the broccoli to the ovenproof pan and return to the oven, along with the fish in foil, for 15 mins. Toast the chopped cashews in the oven for 2 minutes. Spoon the rice, squash and broccoli into a bowl before placing a fish fillet on top. Drizzle with the dressing then garnish with some cashews and serve.

That's a decent looking ray Dicky! Nicely done! Good session 👍

Here's how Bernard turned out last night. On top of jasmine rice, butternut squash and tender stem broccoli with a chilli, lime, soy and sesame oil drizzle with toasted cashews. Delish!! 🤤

Great, but I don't need another excuse for more gear... 🤣

This is a good question. Based on the species that Neil discussed with the skipper we'll probably need a diverse set up. My early thinking is 20-30lb rod with a simple running ledger for rays & conger, my slow jigging rod for pollock and then a 6-12lb rod with bling for plaice and turbot. However, with ten of us on board, I suspect we may be asked to limit ourselves to a single rod down at any one time. Might have to scratch the 20-30 and 6-12 rods, and use a single 12-20lb'er for everything as a jack of all trades rod. 🤷‍♂️

Well done Dave. 10 out of 10 for effort and dedication. And some nice fish too!

Well done Neil for herding all the cats to make this trip work. A thankless task. So thank you 👍

Top job for persevering with your photos Jon. That's a decent sized paw print. About 3 inches across? Bigger than any moggy I've ever seen 👍

That's reassuring as I haven't been down to the boat since we had the high winds, so I'm guessing it was business as usual for them 👍

I think the idea is that you open the edit function to get access to choose the smallest image size for resaving, so even just a single pixel edit would work, then you get the option to select the smallest file size for resaving... I think!

Makes you wince... 😖

@Saintly Fish found that if you edit the photo on your phone and crop or resize it slightly it usually reduces the size enough to post them.