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nice going bud🐳

well done on getting out bud  top dangling 🐳

Top work Stu! 
 
I’ve got a bunch of rowdies out tomorrow to hopefully find more of the same, but I’ll let you have the dogfish to yourself 😁😁

Finally calm enough to get out of the Haven, well, for a few hours at least.
Loads of small pollack on baited feathers so switched to slow jigs when tide allowed and soft plastics on portland rigs when it picked up, to pick out the better pollack up to around 5lb.
Back into the Haven as wind picked up to find plenty more dogfish! Ballan Wrasse, the varying colours are amazing, camera never does it justice, poor cod and also pouting and launce to add to my species for the year.
More huge ships in the Haven, it certainly makes you wonder how much gas and oil we use!

Lure rod. Two hook flapper rig with floating beads on the snoods. Size 4 pennel hooks. Long thin strips of squid or mackerel belly skin. Bounce the gear off the bottom as you drift. You'll know when you've hooked one. Brilliant sport on light gear.
Have a read of this too: 
 

Went wreckin again to Littlehampton on Sunday - best a few ounces under 15lbs 

If anyone can catch them on lures it'll be me... 🐶

No bait… it’s lures to avoid the dogfish… they are around In plague proportions 😭

nice one on getting out you cant beat being out on the water bonus on a few fish 🐳

A decent weather window today, so I made the effort to go out, as due to the weather the boat hasn't moved for 3 months.
A solo trip and launched at 07:00 into a very flat sea. First stop was a bunch of 3  wrecks off berry head which in the past were always netted, but in view of the pollock ban, I assumed correctly that the nets would be gone. Well, I was right, but there are a significant amount of crab pots on the wrecks. A couple of drifts on each produced nothing, so I headed inshore to the Orestone.
several drifts on the Orestone produced a few Mackerel and one Herring. As I brought it up I couldn't decide between a large sardine or small herring, but with the dorsal fin well past the half way mark, it had the be a herring.
Having had a good shakedown the boat is running well, and I came back in at lunchtime.
So 27nm and rewarded with a few bait fish, so not too bad for mid April.
 
 
 
 
 
 

nice one bud thanks for sharing at least you got to wet a line 🐳

well done mate nice to read a local ish report my boat goes back in the water on tuesday  so hopefully be back out 🐳soon

Mine are to try my very best to make the most of the few-and-far-between days of light winds, get out to sea to catch anything decent.

this is the   ( ford )  part no  for the I A C   that is a direct replacement for the  ( Suzuki )   I A C  Valve  made by Mitsubishi  

Hey guys, happy new year!! 🤔
It's that time of year again and the fishy season kicks off for me in 6 days! 
Funnily enough, Andrew.. I was recently talking to someone about the deeps, apparently.. it's bloomin amazing!? Mostly spinning Shark dits but other species also got a mention..
I'm all for cracking tricky spots but our session there still gives me nightmares. Best left to those with webbed hands and funny shaped heads I reckon.. 
 

for thoes that are intrested , boat juble / carbot sale at hythe marina 
 
saterday 6 of april 2024
from 930am till 12 am
in ade of the R N L I 

fair play luke she looks great nice job done there

Just had some old sharking friends stay with me from the UK targeting mako's. Just before their arrival I was feeling confident of ticking the species off their list, with mako just about everywhere from inshore reefs to offshore, even the day they arrived a 264kg mako was landed. However the weather turned to pretty much to 2m swell on 1.5-2m seas for the entire period they were here, not to mention a couple of boats I had lined up falling through due to a split fuel tank on our first day and other issues.

So it was down to my 15ft boat to get us offshore each day. Seals were a menace soon finding our burley trails each day, then thieving us out of baits. We had mako's just 5m from the boat very reluctant to take baits and those that did simply grabbed and dropped baits, even live bonito's weren't enough to keep their interest. Whalers sharks on the other hand weren't so fussy and took baits without issue, however it wasn't those we were targeting. Plenty of hammerheads also checked out the baits but typical to hammerheads, none would take a bait with wire. A thresher smashed a bait on the surface but only stayed connected for about 30 seconds before pulling the hook. 
 
There was a fair amount of tackle failure, with 14/o hooks straightening and specially bought from the USA mako wire traces getting bitten through. I think a serious tackle review will need to be considered before heading out again. One day we had 9 runs to just one shark staying connected (which happened to be the only bait I rigged).

We worked hard at it but just didn't manage the target, one mako even decided to jump cartwheels in front of the boat just to tease us!!! We flogged awful conditions, I even got seasick and took waves both over the bow and stern of the boat but it just wasn't to be. However one of the guests managed to top up 47 species and some 250lb+ stingrays the local bearded greenpeace warriors wanted to string us up for. 

Weather is still terrible.

I don't know how they've gotten such a good reputation, had nothing but issues with my Suzuki 140. Sometimes it wouldn't go over 3000rpm, oil alarms kept going off and needed a new gearbox under 400hrs. Ive owned 3 Suzuki outboards and all have had issues.

Forecast wasn't great - but it was the 1st Boat comp of the league with Weymouth Angling society. 
all week it was discussed do we go ahead or not, as the forecast kept changing - we decided to give it a go as Portland can offer shelter from the wind if SW as forecast. 
 
Its a points based competition by species - you get 30 points for the 1st of a species and then 15, 15 and 40 to a total of 100 points for 4 fish of the same species. 
its then done on most fish, most points, most species and there's also a nominated species on the day (thornback ray) - largest wins. 
boats leave the harbour at 8am and fishing commenced at 8.30, fishing to stop at 3pm and back tot he club for 4pm. 
 
it was a very lumpy day - with 18-20mph winds form the south in the morning moving to SW - but we persevered - on our 5 mile mark we had a huge amount of Bream - couldn't get past them - even taking the big fish baits on the size 10 hooks- we also had dogs, pout, rays, whiting, eels, Scad, wrasse
we struggled to get 4 pout, eels, even dogs - at one point i was hoping for a doggie and getting frustrated by all the bream. 
we moved closer inshore onto the mud in the hope of bigger thornies and more pout - and did manage a few more fish. 
I ended on 240 and something - Tim ended on 491 and came 2nd in the points, but won the most species with 9. 
My 18" Ray and Tims 19" ray were dwarfed by the winner!
so Tim won £40 something quid - and we all had a good day afloat. 
im feeling to today though! 
i didnt get any points for my Scallop - but it was tasty!
 



not many pics as too busy holding on and trying to stay upright!

Update on my DF  140     engine  stopped  charging    and the weather as been crap for weeks  so not done anything to it  well today  with it been nice i thought id take a look       stuck a multi meter  on the battery  and its charging  14.2 volts     checked the wiring on the  dash volt meter and it was a dry joint     engine is running perfect     might have to adjust the idle once its in the water    now to start planing some fishing trips    off over to the caravan  on monday   kids break from school next friday   ( i park my  outfit in the school car  park )      so with a bit of look   ill get to go fishing    not drowned   any worms since  last September     the old   ( idle control valve  is full of rust  )  and seized   up    solid      tight lines  Alain   

I used to work at Dyson….. and that post ain’t too far off a real life story 🫣🫣