AND was my response when I got up at 05.30 this morning to go fishing. The wife asks, where are you going? To which I reply …. Fishing…!
The rest you can put together.
I was flying solo today, left Hamble at 07.30 with a return trip to see my old foe at Alum bay planned. After the last visit there I’d not had the chance to refuel, 1/3 of a tank was registering. Yarmouth will be reachable I told myself, they have 24hr fuel between April and September. Perfect, then I quickly checked the weather again and the speed had changed from 12-15 to 15-20 SW meaning the return trip would be wind over tide. A 4.2 tide today so not massive but enough to cause discomfort after around 11am.
07.45 I passed the MDL fuel berth which had life on it, so a quick vhf call to the office soon found me pulling up to re fuel there instead. As I’m re fuelling I have a change of heart and decide to go East not West.
In hind sight probably a good call. Mr. Megladon can wait for another day.
142lt later and I’m on my way. Got into the solent and went straight into a flock of gulls working the water lazily.
I only had tinsel feathers onboard which do not work as well as white feathers I’ve found. And I was correct. There were fish all around, breaking the water everywhere, and all I could muster up was a decent scad and a medium mackerel. Blank saved within 10 mins.
I continued on with Browndown beach in my sights but decided to stop short, half way between the east bramble bouy and browndown. Pretty much right opposite the HMS Daedalus slipway. Half a mile off. And that’s where I stayed for the next 5 hours.
Quite event full it was, I managed to snap my spinning rod..
by getting it caught in the S/S socket where my fender and mooring lines route..
Never mind, I’ve only had it 12 years, and it was only the rod leo caught his first ever fish with…
So the fish, I managed 3 hounds 2 x 9lb
and
Them a very feisty little 7.5lb version.
This one actually gave the best fight of the day and took a fair few meters of line, leading me to think it was a decent sized strap.
But by far the cutes catch of the day was this little fella..
more Grams and ounces…