Andy135

This might sound a bit heretical but I find the Kenzaki's a bit too soft after buying an Ugly Stik GX2. Seems like I prefer the tippier action of the Uglies compares with the more through action of the Kenzaki's. They just feel more capable when fishing with a heavy lead on and give better feel for the action of the fish. #burnhim!

Excellent work @Abozzy! Very well done for persevering. Makes the catch all the more sweet if you've had to work for it. Nice blonde too. 👍 #welljell 😭

Good write up, pics or no. Plenty of fish aboard too. Top work 👍

Tell us, what rigs and gear are used when deducting for turbot exactly?

That's cos you're last 🤣

@suzook12, you had a strong week last week. 64 points is a great score. 👍

Cracking day afloat! Well worth getting up early for I'd say. Top dangling Mike & team.👍

Lovely pics and great fish! Those stripers look good. 👍

I take it these salt away products actually work then? Always been a bit sceptical but curious to hear of first hand experience of them.

Ignore me. Just caught up with your other thread. Could you PM me with prices for a couple of shark leaders please @willyhookit?

Sounds like a bit of a cluster all round. Glad you stayed safe @Tankybouy 👍

They look very nice indeed. Do you make shark traces by any chance?

Sounds like a hard day for fishing. Average age 73? How old are you then?? 🤣

Saw a few boats but they were privateers, not charters. There was also one commercial, but not rod & lining. Didn't look like a potter or a netter either. 🤷‍♂️

Sounds like fun @Tankybouy! Do tell!

Hi @Sailfish, yes that was me. Blue hull, white superstructure. I nearly came over for a chat after I pulled the anchor but didn't want to disturb your mark. You had some good fish - glad you had a better session than I did. Would love to read your report in full if you fancy posting one up? 👍

Some weeks ago a plan was hatched for @JonC to venture south to dangle a line with @Saintly Fish and I, aboard Tarlach Too. The target was the ever elusive cod. We had lucked out massively with the weather; flat calm with no swell at all. Hopes were high that we'd see a bearded unicorn grace the decks. We had enough bait on board to sink a small battleship and we were double-patting with spare rigs baited and ready to go to maximise our chances and keep the scent flowing. Jon opened his account with a succession of pout on his uptider. While Neil and I persevered with our downtiders, pondering a blank, Jon pulls another unique and rarely seen Solent species out of the bag. A lesser spotted glove-fish! Neil and I were really feeling the heat now, with no catches to our names after the first several hours of hard fishing. But just as the tide started to turn, my downtider gave a hard rattle that turned into my first fish of the session. As you can see I was delighted to have dodged a blank, and clearly Neil was just as pleased for me as he minced over with T-bar in hand. 🤣 A few more eels followed, and a couple of table-sized whiting, before we made a move further east and settled in to fish the next tide into dusk. Still no cod, but another decent whiting for Neil and congers all round after dark. Before long the skipper called time and we headed back to the Hamble in the dark. So no cod but plenty of action (and laughs) nonetheless. Big thanks to Neil for hosting us and to Jon for making the long, early drive south from deepest Essex to the Solent. 👍

No, not heard anything along those lines. Who & where are they discussing this?

Exactly. Life's too short and the weather too nice to miss this time 👍

A fish is a fish, even a dogfish! 😉 Yes, with a flat sea like that it would have been rude not to blow the cobwebs away 😁

Top work that man 💪! Very good work! A single handed capture - kudos to you. The weather this weekend was properly mint, so well done for making the most of it. PS. Next time you're short-handed... message me, yeah? 😉🤣

Good report Ian. Shame about the bass but it happens. Right call about moving on from the busy wreck - I don't much like having one other boat on a wreck or reef, never mind seven! As it happens, there was something about Friday that brought out the hooligan in me too 😉😁👍

Yes Dicky! Good work 💪. That's a lovely fish, and late in the year too. Well done 👍

Friday saw a near perfect weather forecast so I booked the day off and hit the water. Plan was to head 15 miles south to the overfalls to drift for bass on slow jigs, then find somewhere to sink a squid or two. Headed out of the harbour to grey but calm conditions. And after a brief sprint... 😁 I arrived at the Overfalls and began the first drift... ...Many drifts later I gave it up for a blank 😭 and headed inshore to the Fingers, a mark that has produced some good conger and whiting for me in the past. So down went the pick and down went the squid. A few rattles later and my favourite fish appeared. 💪 A couple more followed before my time was up, so on pain of getting home late I dropped the hammer (again) on the way back in. 😁

I'm the same. Good to have another enlightened angler amongst us 👍