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Bumping this up again as it's less than 100 days to Christmas and you will want some to go with your cheese and paté!

Today's batch 

Tried for herring but not one, plenty of mackerel including big chunky ones, pollock, pouting, weever, whiting and a dab and a wonderful sunset and simultaneous moonrise. 



Fantastic. 

Nice day Monday…. Sunshine and fish…. 
 
Seems we are getting a different class of fish in different areas. This lot would be perfect for popping… maybe next year I’ll get a popping set up to try… 🤔 
@JDP I may need your advice as resident blue water expert on a set up that doesn’t break the bank! 

Too true! 🤫🫣

What happens on the boat, stays on the boat!
🤭🤣

Not quite 40cm but @Andy135 and I did have a couple of chunky ones the other week, also some real small ones that were perfect live bait size!

No, not me, I don't use that kind of language!!....... 😲
Cheers tho, nightmare trying to keep everything moving along and working as well...

Got a bit further with this much later than planned. The rollers (all bar one) are now fitted. I have started making the pins for the snubbers too. They are roughed out to size waiting to be finished one evening this week.
Strangely, I feel far more confident on the lathe than the mill and setting it up, so when I found it was cutting a taper, it was quite easy to adjust to get it cutting at an allowable tolerance.

The new rollers were 19mm bore, the old ones were 16mm, so the trailer had to be drilled out to accommodate. A 19mm blacksmiths drill from toolstation was the solution. Managed to mash my hand up in the process!! New drills are generally too sharp for hand drilling of larger sizes which often results in chipped cutting edges and drills grabbing. Impressed that my ryobi 18v brushless could spin me up. Not so impressed that when it did, it kept smashing my hand into bracketry and the like.... Hohum

I did say ouch followed by ooo that smarts!!
The bunks got loaded up and taken to the workshop ready for new carpet. We are getting there, Will be borrowing a staple gun to get the new carpet fitted along with glue as well. Hoping next weekend, the trailer will be ready to take the boat....
Really busy at the moment as got 4 weeks to get at least 3 bikes ready for auction and delivered, as well as getting the boat sorted.
 

I have a Mk1 colvic 20 with a 2 banger diesel, and my mate has the bigger seaworker. 
Pros - cheap as chips to run - can run all day on a couple of litres of diesel - i use about 50ltrs a season! Very basic so easy and cheap to service and maintain. very good seakeeping, easy to handle and manoeuvre. Classic - so gets a lot of attention from passers by. 
Cons - SLOW - being full displacement it will do 6knots max and I mean max, its fine if you are happy pottering - but it is restrictive - i wont go too far out as a) it takes a long time to get far out, and b) tides can be very strong out here and i don't want to be caught out. Luckily i buddy up with a mate who has a bigger and faster boat for those trips. 
Also - although its a good sea keeping boat - they roll a lot at anchor - rounded hull despite bilge keels still rolls a lot. 
If budget allowed i would upgrade to something faster - not necessarily bigger - something like an Arvor/quicksilver.
the Mk2 Colvics are semi displacement - so a fair bit faster. 
 

Sounds like you'd be looking for a semi-displacement hull, rather than a displacement hull such as the Colvics then. These tend to have speed and stability together. 

Is this a good bench mark?? 
 
https://www.rightboat.com/boats-for-sale/fishing-boat/27-ft-27e5dae1-a785-4dd3-94c2-7725d7f17b27/rb560026

welcome paul 👍

Tight fisted _ _ nchor you fill in the blanks!!

They are proper bogas yeah. But it's hard to read them accurately when the short Solent chop is at play, so a digi scale gave a clearer indication. 

Yeah I was thinking of him when I typed that.
He's still around on our Outlaws WhatsApp but he's deleted all his posts on the forum. Genuinely not sure if he'll be back or not. I hope so, but let's see.

you are turning into jon haha how is he not heard of him hope hes doing ok 👍

Thanks Daio, yes mate I went out alone today. 

Yeah, he didn't want his anchor tangled again so he left me behind 😭.

nice one mate out solo was you 👍

..... I could have caught loads. 
But I wanted to get an early Solent unicorn. 
That didn't happen. But a second biggest bass of 8.37lb did happen and I'll take that all day. 
Had a couple more bream, a snake and an LSD (where have they been?). 
Went home and filleted the bass which will provide 3 people 2 good meals each. One in the form of a fish pie, the other to be determined!! 
 

 

 

 

knowing the squid were in early and conditions looked perfect i had to get out - i was tempted by Thursday evening but the rain put me off, Friday looked just as good so i went for it.
I know how finicky they can be, requiring high tide at or after dusk, calm winds/sea state for days before, clear water, and preferably clear skies.
As a result it can be a short window if the rest of the season is blown off. so you have to take your chances when you can and boy did it pay off!
at 6pm I got to a new mark I wanted to try and found it too shallow - so headed to the pier with the rest of the UKs squid fisher people.
one pier was closed so the other one was rammed - people were catching from the off, and all around me but not me. boats were also drifting close in to the pier to get in on the action.
I was casting a variety of jigs (cheap amazon ones, Yamashitas and DTDs) and leaving one under a float - but no joy in 2 hours - the pier got busier and busier as the evening moved on and it simple wasn't fun for me getting tangled with others casting over me from a mere arms length away - it was pretty much shoulder to shoulder.
Id had enough and went back to my original mark to find only one other person there and plenty of water. 
First cast at dusk got a take on the DTD under a float but I lost it - never mind, within a few minutes i'm on again on the casting jig from CWeights- and then proceeded to catch squid after squid. i favoured the Cweights jig as it was working - but others were catching on a variety on styles and colours

More turned up including a grandad and grandson and a few first timers - great to see them getting in on the action. 
You could see the squid follow the jig and if you slowed down you could watch the 'take' - even if you dropped one close in you could catch it again. 
when I got to 9 I was keen to get my double figures, but it had gone quiet, others had left and it was just me and one other - i didn't want to leave without my 10th - but luckily they came back - and i got another 4 - ending on 13 - and just under 4kg of fresh squid!

brilliant fun and at 10.30pm I called it a night. 
Bait freezer nicely stocked up now - we get mackerel all year round here and the chance to bag up on squid in the autumn - apart from worms i don't spend any money on bait anymore!
happy days!

Well dangled. Sounds like the beads saved the day for you 👍
Must have been something about the date on Sunday as we had anchor troubles too. But that may have been down to user error. Possibly. 😳

cracking report  bud 👍

great report  again boys i am hopeing on a better winter this year  fingers crossed 👍

That's a productive day ! well done both
No Cod, but they're getting like blue moons these days