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    16th March Bristol Channel

    in Catch reports

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    With the foreseeable future weekends being taken up I thought I'd take advantage of a slow builder (job not ready til next week) and pop out for few hrs before the winds and rain came in

    Just myself and Nipper got through the 7am lock and headed east to Clevedon, a small flooding tide allowed us to drop anchor on the English side of the shipping channel on a mark that's usually pretty good

    I had a small thornie on whole squid on the first drop of the downtide rod, and not a twitch on any of the 6 we had out for the next hour. Didn't want to waste any more time here as high water was around 12 ish and the wind and rain were forecast to increase from late morning onwards, so we would only have comfortable fishing up until high water

    A quick move out to the "English and Welsh" where we stayed for an hour, again without any success. Not even a bite

    Last move was back to the Welsh side just above the Newport Deeps buoy where I'd caught a nice 14.5lb Cod in Dec 21

    A slow start here with the odd thornie coming up, then pretty much bang on high water things went very busy

    We ended up with 18-20 Thornbacks and 3 small Codling to 3.5lb, the majority caught around slack high water when it's usually just Congers that show themselves

    The wind and rain were still not as forecast, so we stayed until we'd used all our bait

    This corresponded with the swell and rain picking up, so we caught the 2.15pm lock back in 

    A half decent end to a crap start, but some good sport for a few hrs

    No pictures cos Aussie Jon would slightly trump mine (if I actually took any that is)

     

    Simrad/Lowrance App?

    in Boat Owning, Equipment and Maintenance

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    22 hours ago, JDP said:

    I tried my Navionics on my phone alongside my Garmin gps in my car alongside my calibrated scan gauge and found it to be spot on, no issues with update time in cruise at 100kh. Only issue I have is that I head offshore out of phone range, so obviously no use then but I also have the card versions for both Garmin and simrad (need to sell the simrad now I don't have the head unit).

    I had my navionics on when flying back from Lanzarote Friday night (GPS) and it showed 590 knts at one point, pilot said we were doing 76% of the speed of sound

    2023-03-14_08-21-24

    One of our instruments were lying, I wonder which one ?

    Hoodies.

    in General Discussion

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    I think mine has arrived as well, there's a parcel in the kitchen which hasn't been claimed by anybody yet, so must be mine

    It's like the bloody Parcelforce sorting office here sometimes, Even the swampettes that have moved out still get there parcels sent here

     

    7th Feb Bristol Channel

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    6 hours ago, Odyssey said:

    Top end of channel got lots of cod. Channel explorer from Portishead had 15-20 fish yesterday…. 
     

    Safly I think you need to burn done diesel to find them and head up the top end, 

    Well done in getting one though 🙂 

    Yes, I saw his post, the next compatible tide and that's where I'm heading

    7th Feb Bristol Channel

    in Catch reports

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    8 minutes ago, Saintly Fish said:

    Well you got out Nick on a mid week special and caught a cod! What's not to like ? 

    I hear what your saying, but 2 bites all day !

    Not even a dog or a slack water strap

    This year is definitely different to previous ones, don't know whether the dumping of dredged silt etc has had an adverse effect on our side of the Channel, or we've all forgotten how to fish

    All except daio of course

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    7th Feb Bristol Channel

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    Just myself and Nipper for todays adventures

    Made the trip down to Cardiff this morning full of optimism and anticipation, got the 7.30 lock out and had the anchor down for the first of the ebb on the inner coral out of the worst of the rip

    I did consider a trip up to the English and Welsh to try and emulate diao's weekend trip, but thought the bigger tide would have caused me a few issues as it can really rip through there

    Beautiful crisp morning that lasted all of half an hour, then the mist rolled in and the visibility dropped to about 100yds

    6 rods out with Dirty squid, rag and frozen blacks the order of the day that all came back untouched.....Apart from a small Codling that had impaled itself on one of Nippers hooks and didn't give any indication it was on until by the side of the boat

    That was the only "action" here, so when the tide had slackened a bit we moved out into a very promising looking gully

    This mark was very similar to the first, in fact it was identical in the pissing fog

    I had one bite about 30 mins before slack low and pulled in a fat little 3lb 4oz Codling, so that was it for the whole tide...two bites

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    The boat swung around, the mist rolled out and we buggered off back in on the 3.45 lock

    There were 3 other boats in the lock with us and they had done a bit worse than us

    I'm raiding the English side next time I get out

     

    b /c

    in Catch reports

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    6 minutes ago, daio web said:

    i cant upload any photos saying to big thats as far as i got with help from my son how do i do it on this flicker thing me and computers dont get on wrong era

    Flickr is easy mate, even I can manage it

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