Saintly Fish

Some proper stonking fishies there bud!!
 

We took both boats out the water on thursday for a quick lick of paint Pugwash and Seadog - I discovered I need a new cutlass brearing so not great news - otherwise all the painting went ok and in fact Tims boat Seadog was back in the water Friday evening. so that meant console my worries with a trip out on saturday. 
Small tides and a clean hull saw us hatch a plan to round the bill and hunt the wrasse in the morning followed by anchoring on the Kidney banks in the afternoon - last time we went the kidney bank threw up blondes to 20lb, 8lb Turbot, Spurs and Tope - including my biggest ever fish (40lb Tope). this time nothing but Dogs.
Luckily we had success on the Wrasse just off the bill. 

 Tims all went to 4lb

 

 

 

 
I have received the new Cutlass bearing from ASAP supplies and will start re-assembling this week - hoping to get back in the water next weekend.
 

😲 you can't utter those 3 letters here !! 

Just taken photo of boat replacing Rib

You'll find less censorship over here... ask us how we know that 😖😉👍

She looks 😍. Never been on a strikeliner (hint hint), what's the build quality like??

How to check if your car is in limp mode….
 
 

That’s the plan…. 
 
stick camera on end of pole, put in water, video fish, return go pro to too original owner, edit footage offline and hopefully she won’t notice it’s dissappeared….

Actually, it is better to take a short viid of a fish and then extract a decent still from the footage.

Smartliner fisher 22 contemporary 
Got this last year and can’t wait to be spending plenty more time on her this summer!!! 
She’s got a 150 Suzuki on the back and is a really lovely stable boat, a nice upgrade from our old 30 year old Orkney Strikeliner. 
 
if I’m not out on ORCA I’ll be bombing around Pembs in a 10ft AB rib with the spearfishing gear on board! 
 
can’t see that there are many of these around - maybe one or two in Swansea perhaps? So hopefully see some of you lot on the water ….

He's actually not as bad as some would have you believe. If you just don't talk to him he's fine!! I just let him get on with it, and I drove the boat. 

Thanks both, I will take a look at your posts Andy. I've read much of this site and pretty much all of Ian's posts as its all good info for me. We will probably see if we can get out with Matt at some point. I'm off to Croyde for the weekend, pretending to surf, but will pack a rod and some lures. Hope you manage to get out Ian if you decide to go - I look forward to another catch report to glean info from!

Some great catches for our club members 

That's what you tell all the boys!!

Just a quick report as the fishing wasn't great - Weymouth boat league comp number 3. 
We went to our usual mark and i got off to a good start - but it dropped off once the tide slackened. 
Loads of bloom in the water made the fishing really hard - I managed 5 dogfish, 4 bream, and an Eel. 
Tim had 4x bream, 4x doggies, a Red gurnard, a Cuckoo Wrasse, a mackerel and an eel.
Mid afternoon we moved spots - coming closer in to search out Wrasse, Pout and pollock on the reefs/wrecks inshore to up our tally
But only Tim managed to find one Ballan wrasse
Neither of us placed anywhere near the top.  
 
the last bream i had was a feisty one of +2lb with some awesome colours - i had already kept an earlier one for tea so he went back to help the stocks!

 
 
Classic bit of Bream juggling......

 
lovely day afloat despite the disappointing result - 
 
 

Nice one Malc. Good fishing, and a nice write up. Thanks for sharing. 👍🏻

Yeah well done on coming clean @Malc, many wouldn't!!! 

Fair do's for posting up a blank.👍

For me. 
My friends however got a couple to count for the species competition, both dabs along with codling and whiting. 
A few more fish being caught and hopefully we will get a few more soon. 
No pics so never happened. 

Well….the weather played ball but the Bream marks were stuffed with Bass 

My windlass is mounted on starboard side on deck but suffers same issue…. It sticks to windless and doesn’t fall nicely so I have to hand feed it into the locker. 
 
if your magic device works, will you be offering early bird discounts? 😁😁

Be sure to put it in a cloth bag first though and do up the end. 
Or soak it in a bath over night with a bottle of fabric softener poured in. 

My windlass does exactly the same thing. Think it's more to do with the weight of the rode and the depth of the locker. If the rode is lightweight it doesn't fall too good, and if the locker is quite shallow then the rode has no depth to fall properly so backs up. I have to go upfront when I retrieve too, but with a remove around my neck it's easy. 
ps, every windless I've ever had has done the same regardless of rope type of size etc