Dicky

Had a short trip Wednesday morning on Kingfisher from Minehead mainly to get the kids out. It was a breezy grey day but the fish were biting from start to finish. First fish was a blonde to Jack then it was constant action with around 20 hounds between the 6 of us, a few thornbacks and dogs, strap eels and lots of baby tope. Great mornings fishing

Guy in our club has a pirate 21 with a cabin and a 115 honda on the back, cruises at 20 knots with no fuss.

It was probably only around 6lb but did pull back a little

We were there crabbing on Tuesday, down past the ferry. My 2 kids had over 30 crabs in about an hour, good size too. Quick wander around the quay then over to Brixham for chips from the Rio before another hour crabbing in the inner harbour which produced another 20 plus. Kids loved it and we ended up going to Watchet on Wednesday for another go. Over 60 there but very small in comparison.

Trick photography, but i did notice as i was returning it a lump by it's left eye. It felt soft as if full f puss an was unsure whether to burst it or not so left it alone

Fished Burnham yesterday at Lower Light for a few hours up 1 ray and a strap, dropped another ray and missed a slack liner, probably an eel. Managed to miss the showers so not to bad at all.

Nice day out, did you see any big mackerel chasing those scad?

Where do you go out from fishybuisness?

it wasn't to bad at all, steamed down at around 16-18 knts. Flattened off lovely and made 20 plus knts against the tide all the way back. Bit more confused around Berry Head.

Last week I had a shark trip out of Neyland West Wales on White Waters. The weather was fantastic with just enough breeze to get a decent drift but flat enough to fly out there at 20+ knots. The fishing was slow with just 4 runs, 2 fish to the boat and 2 shaking the hooks. The bottom fishing was slow as well with whiting hard won. Plenty of trawlers out there, stacks of dolphins and sea birds.Biggest blue went 90-100 lb I had the other around 60lb. We also picked up a piece of trawl net on one of the outboards but luckily Andy felt it hit and killed the engines straight away. Quick lift up of the leg and it unraveled fairly easily Yesterday I spent the day on the skerries fishing light for plaice on our own boat. We had 25-30 plaice between the 3 of us plus grey and red gurnards, a dab and a small blonde. Biggest plaice went to my brother at 2lb 1oz

Can i ask why you started your drift at the Nab tower? That must be 10 miles from St Catherines. I would be surprised if you could drift that far in a single tide.

We were out on White Water yesterday. Slow for us too, just 2 blues to the boat and 2 that pulled the hook. Not as flat as you had but still one of the calmer days out there. I had 1 around 60lb the other was 90-100lb. Loads of dolphins, birds and trawlers but not much else.

Years ago (35ish) when we fished charters out of West Bay, Dorset, we used to tow feathers behind the boat on the way out to the mark. We would have been travelling at around 4 knts with at least a pound of lead but we always caught enough on the way out to last the day for bait.

Bet that was a lovely day at sea even if the fishing wasn't top notch. Hope to be down your way on Sunday. Our club has an away day at Brixham so most of us will be on the skerries or maybe on a few inshore wrecks.

All the juniors get a prize in our comps but unfortunately he didn't make the top 3.

Couple more piccys

We had a junior comp today so had my lad Jack onboard with me and my brother. Plenty of rays, a few dogs, half a dozen hounds and plenty of eels with the biggest going 16-6 to Jack. He hooked it right at the end so we kept it alive and weighed it in on the beach before we returned it.

Have a good one Luke, i'm back down on White Water in a couple of weeks

Nice one sounds like a good day. You were lucky you left that early as M5 had only just shut. Traffic was at a standstill by 9am through Burnham down to Bridgewater and beyond, took me 1 1/4 hours to do about 6 miles.

That's pure bacon porn JonC

We're booked for Fowey again 20th-24th September. It's a great place to go out from.