Saintly Fish

Maybe not this weekend but I’ll be aiming for the next one for sure !👍🏻

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I'm not required to tell you the angling boat and wave design in the Offshore Outlaws logo was designed by @Andy135 from Offshoreoutlaws.co.uk but I'll do it anyway 😉

I'm tempted, but I haven't any room to mount them. Besides, she'd kill me if I added two more. 😃

A 2004 Arvor 250 pictured when I bought her about 14 months ago, before I did any cleaning/upgrades etc
Struggled to get 21 knots flat out

I decided I didn't want to spend all my retirement working on my old boat, so I treated myself to a new Warrior 165 (MegaByte) which I collected from the factory on 26th August 2009.
 

Hello to all the Poole Bay Small Boat Angling Club members! Welcome to Offshore Outlaws!
Your forum site was influential for us when we were looking for a new home for the Outlaws. We hope you enjoy our small but growing site. Feel free to cross-post your catch reports, asks for help, tackle tips etc.
For those who don't know, PBSBAC is Poole's only club dedicated to small boat angling and their site can be found at pbsbac.co.uk.
Tight lines all!

I found this surprise a couple of weeks ago when I went to warm the engine in readiness for an oil change. 
 
At first it appeared to just be the exhaust gasket ...

 
But after removal, I scrapped a piece of black carbon off and it exposed a hole in the housing...

 
After many phone calls and high quotes ranging from £1700 - £2450 + vat for a new oem turbo, I managed to find a Turbo specialist who has welded, refurbished and painted the old one to look like new. And with a 1 year warranty. 
This will be collected on Friday morning. Pics of the newish unit to follow !

Ooh! Good post. Looking forward to seeing the new unit installed 🤓

I found this surprise a couple of weeks ago when I went to warm the engine in readiness for an oil change. 
 
At first it appeared to just be the exhaust gasket ...

 
But after removal, I scrapped a piece of black carbon off and it exposed a hole in the housing...

 
After many phone calls and high quotes ranging from £1700 - £2450 + vat for a new oem turbo, I managed to find a Turbo specialist who has welded, refurbished and painted the old one to look like new. And with a 1 year warranty. 
This will be collected on Friday morning. Pics of the newish unit to follow !

The hole's not that large...

i am going to bring my post from the old site but tiddy it up
i started this project some time ago nowing very little of what i was letting myself into.
members of Offshore Outlaws were of grate help , so a big thank you to them, they have provided me with teckernell help and moe importently made me smile when things whet rong, banter can realy put a smile on your face when your down (no mater how bad it is )
so a big thankyou to you all
 

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Photo of Jon?

Don't get time much for reading these days, and when I do, I'm generally not in the mood, so yeah, the tube it is, inc old Graham Pullen

The truth of the matter is, Andy’s a lazy sod and can’t be arsed to look for himself. Good job he’s got mates that keep an eye out for his best interests. Or he’d still be in the shingle struggling with a trailer. 

Usual service has resumed I see, Neil starts off with some decent sounds and Andy not only lowers the tone but then proceeds down the gutter and in to the sewers......
Seems there is nothing for it but to redeem the situation.....
 

Picture the scene... Sunday morning 5am and I'm gently shaking Thomas awake as it's time to head down to the Hamble for a tope and conger session on Tarlach Too with Neil and Leo. Thomas wakes slowly - it was a late night for us all as we returned from France the previous evening. His eyes are red rimmed and he looks dog tired still. As soon as he comes round and remembers the plan for the day he grins and hops out of bed.

A quick bite of breakfast, the bait is loaded into the coolbox and we're into the car and off.

Neil has a coffee on standby for me when we arrive - very much needed and appreciated! This is the first time Thomas and Leo have met in person - they've previously waved to each other from respective tubs at Browndown - and they click straight away.

We finish loading our kit onto the boat and then we're motoring gently off the pontoon and down the Hamble. As we reach the Solent they boys are talking nineteen to the dozen and sharing jokes and gags.




Even the skipper gets in on the act... this is a dab apparently. Who knew??




We spot some gulls working as we pass Lepe so we make a quick detour in the hope of some fresh bait. The boys get feathering and find a handful of school bass plus one solitary mackerel, which Leo quickly names "Monty". Monty is slipped into the coolbox as we head off to the Needles.




We headed for Freshwater Bay to drop the hook and down went the first baits. They soon came back up covered in thick clumps of weed. Not good. The next baits suffer the same fate. And the next. No hope of a fish here, so we pull the anchor and head a bit further south and drift. A couple of bites that don't convert and one decent bass that followed my bait back to the surface is all we get.

The kids are getting cooked in the midday heat so we decide to head back past the Needles for a couple of drifts on the Shingles before heading home. Despite seeing a few other boats drifting in the same area we find no fish and call it a day. But on the way back up the Solent the fun really starts for the kids, who are having a whale of a time getting soaked in the spray.

Thomas seems to have a knack of taking a wave in the face




but it's all smiles apparently!




As we moor up and unload the boat, Thomas says he's had the best day ever and asks whether we can get a boat like Tarlach Too... I finally clock that this was all part of Fishy's cunning plan to turn me into a ferry owner!

After his late night and early start, Thomas falls asleep within 5 minutes of getting into the car. Big thanks to Neil and Leo for a great day on the water - Thomas really did have the best day ever!

Daughter and I went out early today to scratch some species at Bullocks Patch. She had a great time. "Faster Daddy, go faster!"

Fish weren't playing ball. Just a solitary "bull huss" again for our efforts at the Patch, so we dashed west to Sandown Bay for a drift or two. I got some cracking sonar pics of the Camswan which I'll post up later.

To top it off we put the hammer right down on the way back after she kept on asking to go faster... 31 knots over Culver Spit! Woohoo! 🥳🥳 I ran out of balls before the rpms did! 👍

Sounds more like a lonely hearts ad!!🤣

Spec looks ok, only one way to find out mate
 

I was out on a group of four wrecks off the SW corner of the IoW back in the summer, and I wanted to test out the new HDS Live 9 and Active Imaging transducer side scan capabilities. Below is a screen shot of the bow of the Kurland (details here: map.forgottenwrecks.org/uploads/documents/FWFWW_Site%20report_Kurland.pdf) compared with the Marine Archaeology Trust's professional sidescan view from the Forgotten Wrecks report.

HDS Live Active Imaging side scan


Marine Archaeology side scan


Pretty good correlation between the two I think. The HDS side scan was taken at 455khz for the wider cone angle. Next time I'm there I'll try the same drift using 800khz so that I can get a better resolution image.

Incidentally, the Forgotten Wrecks Map is a great resource for wreck hunting on the south coast (sadly not yet made it to Wales  ). Well worth a browse for the history as well as hunting for wreck marks.  

Lovely boat.... with lovely cushions... 🙊

Hello
my boat is a Starfisher 840. Powered by a Yanmar 6lpa dte shaft drive engine. 
She’s the perfect choice of family cruiser and fishing boat. 

Had her since May 2019, but always on the lookout for a decent upgrade deal. 😉



contrary to popular belief , the skipper always puts the crew on the fish. 🎣
 

The truth of the matter is, Andy’s a lazy sod and can’t be arsed to look for himself. Good job he’s got mates that keep an eye out for his best interests. Or he’d still be in the shingle struggling with a trailer. 

Welshman with a penchant for sharks and spaniels 🙂 
 
Based in Cardiff I fish all over the Bristol Channel from Severn bridges to Celtic Deeps down to Lundy and North Devon coast 🙂 
I like all fish but specialise in sharks..... 
 
Although I do love a good session on the rays when in Cardiff... or bream bass and tope from Swansea..... Or reefs for the pollack when in Milford..... 🤔🤔🤔🤔
If you want advice on uptiding, shark fishing or boating safely offshore let me know! Here to help 🙂