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I get your point Neil, and i did consider my decision before keeping it - but i've only caught 2x bass in the last 5 years fishing (only 3 keepers in my entire life), and i certainly wont be taking the next few bass - even if i'm lucky enough to catch one. given its likely 20yrs old, it pretty much past breeding age - i'd argue its the small younger ones that should go back.
I'm not up for a debate on the rights and wrongs of keeping fish - I only take what I'm going to eat - I put more fish back than I take home. 
 
 

One for @GPSguru he is our resident technical guru 🙂 

Mid springs, nice weather, flat sea forecast, what is not to like.
It was a hard call, due to the usual slipway spring tide limitations it was to be either a morning wrecking session getting back at 13:30, or a full day on the skerries getting back at 16:00. The call was easier as fishing the skerries on a spring is hard work and often not productive, so it was out to the wrecks.
Launched at 07:30 with kyle as crew and headed to a wreck at 18 miles. Wind over tude was an issue on the trip out with a short sea coming from all directions, but managed at steady 22knts being careful not to stuff the bow. 
There was a commercial from Dartmouth fishing the wreck and we saw he was catching bass using one rod with hookais, and 2 handlines with multiple lures. The stamp of bass looked to be 3lb ish. We kept 4 fish that were 48 / 49 cm.
we made a few drifts and had a good few bass on small lures, however, there was a large quantity of monster pout on the wreck and we had a few of those as well. We did try a wrecking rig with mack flapper over slack, but it only produced pout.
Once slack came the sea quietened down, so it was a cracking morning to be out there.
The trip in was quick on a flat sea, and we caught the tide ok by being back on the slip at 1 pm.
 


@Josh
Here is a pic of the trip off the plotter 😉


 

The screen picture that you have posted, is that available on most garmin mfd's
I have a couple of old 5012's and a slightly newer 7410 XSV, can I get that info on any of these
BTW, looked a nice few hrs out 👍 
EDIT I assume that it's linked to the outboard and not an option for me

nice one boys i agree with neil on that one that bass is probally 20 to 25 years old

Nice fishing Mike, and a great bass. I'll be honest though, if the bass was gut hooked then fair enough take it home. But if not I'd have put it back. A near double bass won't taste that great compared to a smaller younger one, and it deserves to live another day after all its avoided to this point. Just my opinion. 

About 45 - 47knts, depending on tide and wind, but that is arse clenching speed, everything happens quickly, and you need eyes everywhere !
Rarely do I go over 35kts

Well, if you ever want to make the trip to the south coast....

Well done boys  nice fish congrats on the pbs i never had a stingray  maybe one day 🐳

There are different fishery rules in Wales to England for sure. I’m not sure on this particular case but for others it’s definitely the case.
Ive done quite a bit of snorkelling. Pembroke is brilliant for this. Such a varied wildlife so close to shore. A great way to find out where bass are hiding… can’t get my boat near them and the cliffs are inaccessible so I guess they are safe for a while 😂
Thwre are few spear fishing guys about. There is one boat that often stops in Milford Marina called Spare Rib (it’s a rib). Nice guys to chat to, always happy to share marks etc. 
Ill stick to above water fishing myskef but I can see the attraction for sure 

nice going mate some great fish there 🐳

Havnt posted in a while so a quick recap.
Great few days out of Milford Haven, weather was kind and the range had a few days off so could venture to new areas.
The bass fishing was phenomenal with birds hitting the water all over the place and bass busting out!
The pollack was also great when you could find them, along with huss to 14lb tope estimated around 40lb, gurnards dabs weavers and dogs.
Also some nice lobsters and spider crabs In my pot 🙂

Makes the tiddlers feel bigger if you hold the rod underneath the reel 😉

Not a criticism in any way, but wouldn't it be easier to bring a fish in with your left (rod) hand above the reel ?
You'd get more leverage, making it easier, especially on something that wants to put up a bit of a scrap
 
 

well done mate glad the boats how you wanted it i am out the 5 th july overnighter down that way kip in coldnapp overnight cant wait 

Can't remember the last time I fished from my own boat, it's been that long
Decided on a short trip West to target the Smoothhounds
In the 7.30 lock was just ourselves and another (ex) CBYC boat, they were heading further West to Nash and we were staying closer to home just West of Barry
We got the pick down by about 8.15 and waited, I was first in with a small blonde after 30 mins or so, closely followed by a dog
That was pretty much it for the first 90 mins, so we moved out wider. A small tide meant we could fish and anchor comfortably in just over 50ft at slack low
I was first in again with a small hound of around 6/7lb, with crewman will boating its sibling pretty much straight after
This was the story for the next few hours, with hounds coming in 3's and 4's of similar size periodically, and the odd few just making double figures
We also had quite a few dogs and Rays (Blonde and Thornies) which were mostly juvenile and pretty unexciting
We moved when the anchor starting slipping in 70 odd ft and had the last hour on the Coral, near Penarth
On a plus note, my bit of stainless tacked to the "prong" on the windlass, worked a treat
Had my normal "windlass man" up front on first anchor retrieval just in case, and he wasn't needed
The 2nd and 3rd retrievals were both done from the cabin
Also both the new temp guage and new oil pressure switch work spot on
No pictures of inferior fish today, but did get a couple of this old girl on the way in, parked up on the end of Penarth pier
 
The Waverley, doing a bit of a tour around parts of Britain 

Unfortunately I had changed some settings and inadvertently gone into loop mode, so the Cod footage was recorded over, however, here is a vid of one of the smaller pout (but still large), that tried to take a whole mack flapper and was cleanly hooked on an O'Shaughnessy 9/0
 

Another morning solo trip as I had to do the school run in the afternoon.
Launched at 7:45 into a flat sea, so I decided to head out to the same bunch of wrecks as my last trip.
At 15 - 20 miles out it was mirror flat, I decided to stay on one largish wreck, and my drift was along the wreck which is unusual.
It was pout city on both spj and lures, but I did manage 2 small Cod of about 4lb each. 

Some of the pout were huge. I had some frozen mack to use up, so I quickly tied a blood loop wrecking rig from 150lb mono, and a 9/0 hook. I loaded the 9/0 with a mack flapper hoping for Ling, but the monster pout were shredding it, and I hooked 4 of them, bloody monsters, probably close to 3lb fish !
I will look at the camera later to see if there are any pics worth using.
Just cleaned the boat and I noted the AIS stopped working on the way back in. The AIS 800 has the ‘ready’ and ‘receive only’ lights on, which suggests it has lost its GPS signal, so I suspect the Garmin puck. I will order a new one tonight.
Total trip of 38miles and a cracking day to be out there.

Not our subject really as we fish the Northumberland and Durham coasts but this forum and YouTube helped us glean lots of info and helped inform our decisions, so don't believe that huss don't like shallow water or fast current. 

nice one bud top topeing 🐳

I’ve got Team Daiwa 12-20lb a lot of backbone quite tippy I prefer them to the Kenzaki 

happy fathers day all the sun is shinning for us 

happy fathers day all the sun is shinning for us 

happy fathers day all the sun is shinning for us 

i have two sets of uglys  cant fault them and cheap two  have a look about for them the price varies  happy searching