Davemc

Thanks. Not long now and we can get out again...thank god!!
Pulling my hair out

Latest from today....
Shes out for 2 weeks as I can’t get a slot to get back in 😮😮
Engiene service should finish tomorrow.... a few issues but will be nice to have the reassurance it’s all sorted ready for a busy year in 2021 🙂 

Lockdown means local fishing, so recently I have focused on marks I can reach on foot from my home in Plymouth. Fortunately, this includes boat fishing, as 'Piranha' is kept on a mooring less than half a mile away in Stonehouse Pool. I can't claim to have caught anything spectacular since my last report, the highlight being a 4lb 10oz codling from the Tamar in early December. I was uptiding from a buoy just upstream of Mashford's (UK Docks) boatyard using two rods, one with whole squid on a pulley pennell and the other with mackerel and squid pieces on a two-hook flapper. The codling took the whiting rig and contained several lumps of squid, a mackerel wrapped in bait elastic and three hardback crabs. It looked to me to have been hoovering up discarded bait! In the same session I had some decent whiting. Other trips to the same spot have yielded several strap conger, a doggie, a sizeable edible crab and a hermit crab. Every session has produced plenty of whiting, though the size has decreased recently. I have tried live bait on a third rod, either with a slider or dropped down the side, but without any takes. I've also had a couple of boat trips after mackerel, the first a blank and the second producing 20 to small sabikis (Mustad Piscator #6) in one brief burst just off the Royal Western Yacht Club in Plymouth Sound. From the shore I've been concentrating on fishing for mackerel from West Hoe pier. Apart from one session when I had seven on the sabikis, it's been all light float-fishing with mackerel strip. I've had fish every trip, including a January garfish, but the most mackerel in a session (usually only a couple of hours) has been eight. Most of the fish have come with the float set at 9-10ft and on a rising tide. I'm still catching, and had four more yesterday afternoon (Jan 13). So, whiting and mackerel - nothing spectacular but some sport at a traditionally slack time of year, and without breaking any Covid rules! I hope this report has been helpful and encouraging. If you can, get out there and give it a go! PH

Very nice session! Thanks for sharing 👍
Super-envious that you're able to do local fishing. Very lucky indeed! Keep the reports coming to keep the rest of us sane 😉

Found some more vids of her.
 
 
 

She's hiding...

yep them photos are realy good. but i canot see any fish ?

Love the photos Andy , The wreck looks great in blue .

They look really good. Where do you get your molds Dave?

And a few samples finished ready for testing 

Keep positive Dave the good times will return soon enough!!

And a few samples finished ready for testing 

Tough going at the mo but I have my fishing to keep me going ! 

Tough going at the mo but I have my fishing to keep me going ! 

Hi Dave, they look very professional!
How are you? Not spoken for a while. Been thinking of you during these lockdowns... must be a bit shit for business.
#understatementoftheyear

Looking good dave

And a few samples finished ready for testing 

Half an hour messing around with some lures for later in the year ..

Grinding some salt to a superfine texture.
 
 

A few injection lure molds filled , I had to warm the molds slightly as the garage was so cold 

Dad saves face too! 

11.36 Leo saves his blank.

I had a little dabble in Langston but the water had all but gone as I'd wasted so much time on the open coast at Hayling 

Unlucky. At least you had a nice walk!

Bad luck Dave. As Neil says, a good walk is never a bad thing...
#clutchingatstraws 🤣

Well I hit the coast today for a very rare Sunday off as I'm usually preparing Sunday lunch in the pub  for the masses .
I drove south and could not believe that the whole country was walking on the beach ..... Why am I closed l thought ....someone's trying to make me bankrupt !! 
Anyway I moved on  as there was no where to fish ...tide had gone for the next mark but I had a good scout around for next year .....
 
Lucky hoody wasn't lucky today but the puppy loved it when I returned home ....