Saintly Fish

Nice lsd 

Largest fish on my boat so far, over 65lb as it topped my scales out,  I've seen a few biggies off the shore and I estimate this one is over 70lb,  not caught by me though but the lad I normally fish with he is 5ft 7in.
 
Caught on a mackerel flapper intended for a Tope. 
 

Started to serious shore fish at 11 years old in Knab Rock Swansea.
My folks had a caravan next to the beach so in school holidays would fish every day..... surf beach fishing for flounder bass and mullet...
stopped shore fishing at 16 as I became more and more into surfing to a high standard. 
 
I used to crew out of mumbles as a teenager in the winter for cod. You turned up, asked around a few times and helped out launching retrieving boats until you got offered a trip.... had some nice catches around Swansea. 
 
only got back into shore fishing when I moved to Cambridge, went to see the sea at Aldebrugh, saw them catching cod and old the spark was kindled! 
 
shortly after moved to Birmingham and went back to South Wales on the shore and charters out of Cardiff and Swansea on Rob Rennie’s boat. We used to leave Cardiff at 6pm so I’d bunk off work at 4, leg it to boat and then we’d get back into Cardiff at 4am before I drove back to midlands and get to bed at 6am.....
I also did Saturday trips on another charter called Benjoma Too. Sadly the skipper Paul Crossman passed away yesterday. Top skipper, bit crusty but once you got to know him was a gentleman.
 
Later on I moved back to Wales, first thing was buy a boat.... ran an Orkney Pilothouse for 4 years before wanting to go bigger..... 
Having separated from the ex the idea was an offshore 25 or osprey 26/28 for weekends and sharks....
 
Somwhow I ended up with an Evolution 30 from Rob which was the first boat I had fished off for 15 years.... She was a tip but a summer of fixing up and away I went! Later that summer it was a trip down memory lane fishing and the same marks I used to within out of Swansea and in the winter from Cardiff. She now follows her larger cousin in Milford. Rob always gets excited when to see her..... I left the keys with him to refuel for me. I noticed on my AIS track that he had a little run around the haven too 🤣🤣🤣
 
It used to be fishing first. These days I love to tinker with boats and boating but I prefer the fishing. However the boat is great to sleep over, weekend on around Swansea/Milford, go sharking/reefing but still go snorkelling in the haven before a nice pub meal and a pint in Marina.....
I almost called my boat Wanderlust as I have a real sense of adventure always wanting to know what’s around the corner, but there was a sail not called that so she was called Odyssey instead as that’s what I’m on. An odyssey to see what’s next on my travels 🙂 

Bluefin tuna breaks into Lewis salmon farm.
http://www.hebrides-news.com/tuna-breaks-into-salmon-farm-221020.html

He’ll of a scrap in a fast tide 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It came home, got sold for a fiver 

Just dogfish...

Nice lsd 

Nice lsd 

Not caught one for a couple of seasons now, and yes I’d had a hat on most of the day. 
 

This is my go to recipe for bass https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/spanish-roast-fish-broad-beans-chorizo
Obviously this recipe was made for farmed bass but works well with a larger fish or filets, just adjust the cooking time of the fish to suit. Also works well with whole bream.
 

Sorry Adam. I'm drawing a blank on this. I've got as far as it being a 60F 6H2 engine of some description but your serial plate doesn't match any of the usual Yamaha configurations online. They usually have the serial number in the uppermost white box. I can't work out whether the 1998 is a year or a 4 digit serial number.
Have a look here for an example: https://www.perfprotech.com/blog/yamaha-outboards/yamaha-outboard-serial-number-location-and-model-identification
You could also spend some time going through the permutations on the Yamaha publications site here: https://www.yamahapubs.com/. I had a quick look and they  list three different types of 2 stroke 60hp outboard model made in 1998, none of which seem to relate to a 60F engine. Not sure if any of them matches your engine though.

i am nameing the boat Old outlaw,
 
still waiteing for one coil to arive so i can start woork on the outboard shhould be any day i donot belive how exsited i am

I’m taking the photo

For us once we are across Poole and Christchurch Bay the solent is a breeze so really doesn't matter where its held.
Depending on timings I recon 3 or 4 Poole boats would be interested but we would need to steal marks for your end 

Luckily got an invite on a friends boat Saturday,  with the massive tides we opted to have a tester at inner Nab.  There were some reports of Unicorns (cod) in the solent but we stuck to the plan expecting the solent to be weedy and a struggle with the size of tide. 
 
Quite lumpy when we got to the mark and if the tides were smaller would have run to the solent but hey ho nothing ventured nothing gained. 
 
Not much to report really a constant stream of straps, dogs and whiting with a double figure undulate showing on a live whiting being the best fish of the day. 
 
Counted over 20 boats out there with a few moving about so guessing the cod did not read the plan. Did hear of a couple appearing in the solent so maybe we made the wrong decision but thats easy to say with hindsight. 
Didn't bother with pictures mainly because I didn't want to drop the phone in the drink but more importantly we didn't get anything we deemed worthy of a picture, the Ray was released alongside so not bloated and weighed. 
Calmed nicely just after lunch with a bit of sun coming through but the bites dried up so we sacked it and headed in around 3pm 

Sorry to hear that the fishing's not so good.
Mind you, I keep thinking the same about the south coast, but usually @Saintly Fish goes and bags up from the same mark and I realise it must be just me that's shit, not the fishing 😢

There may well be an ounce of truth to that. 

Will add pictures etc at a later point
 

New to the site and liking what I’ve seen so far 

There may well be an ounce of truth to that.