Herbs73

We had such high hopes for you, but you've thrown your lot in with the wrong'uns. 🤣

I’m right handed and have the rod in my left and crank with the right with a multi and do the opposite with a fixed spool. This is definitely the way. 

I’ll look them up cheers 

Went out today from Brightlingsea for the first session of the summer season and had a cracking day, 
  25 hounds between the 2
of us, 5 flatties only 4 dogfish, 1 small bass and 3 whiting. 
  

Will do 

Went out yesterday with my stepson, ha a mixed bag of dogfish, thornbacks and smoothounds. Main thing is my stepson enjoyed the day catching  smoothounds. Although  I  probably  should hVe given him some sun tan lotion. 
 
 
 

Haha, I’ll amend it, definitely bad parenting, in my defence we didn’t  think the sun was that strong and I’m not  burnt at all. I’ll take the 2 awards though as I rarely ever win anything. Do I get some sort of prize ? Maybe a gift token or car sticker ?   
  

Went out yesterday with my stepson, ha a mixed bag of dogfish, thornbacks and smoothounds. Main thing is my stepson enjoyed the day catching  smoothounds. Although  I  probably  should hVe given him some sun tan lotion. 
 
 
 

Stickers have arrived, 👍👍👍

Went out yesterday with my stepson, ha a mixed bag of dogfish, thornbacks and smoothounds. Main thing is my stepson enjoyed the day catching  smoothounds. Although  I  probably  should hVe given him some sun tan lotion. 
 
 
 

Went out yesterday with my stepson, ha a mixed bag of dogfish, thornbacks and smoothounds. Main thing is my stepson enjoyed the day catching  smoothounds. Although  I  probably  should hVe given him some sun tan lotion. 
 
 
 

Thanks buddy, I’ll wear them with pride 

And I'll send a couple of patches!!

Went out yesterday with my stepson, ha a mixed bag of dogfish, thornbacks and smoothounds. Main thing is my stepson enjoyed the day catching  smoothounds. Although  I  probably  should hVe given him some sun tan lotion. 
 
 
 

Went out yesterday with my stepson, ha a mixed bag of dogfish, thornbacks and smoothounds. Main thing is my stepson enjoyed the day catching  smoothounds. Although  I  probably  should hVe given him some sun tan lotion. 
 
 
 

Went out yesterday with my stepson, ha a mixed bag of dogfish, thornbacks and smoothounds. Main thing is my stepson enjoyed the day catching  smoothounds. Although  I  probably  should hVe given him some sun tan lotion. 
 
 
 

Went out yesterday with my stepson, ha a mixed bag of dogfish, thornbacks and smoothounds. Main thing is my stepson enjoyed the day catching  smoothounds. Although  I  probably  should hVe given him some sun tan lotion. 
 
 
 

So finally the weather broke enough to get out on North conrwall. I wasn’t going to miss my shot. So the long tow down from Kent to the very bottom.Friday night because of the tides we had to go out in the night which was interesting but absolutely ideal conditions to being doing it in. Totally flat calm and no swell. So we anchored up in a bay and obviously threw a rod over but I think we had one doggie and tryed to get some sleep .. (didn’t happen)

5 am came and light was creeping so we starting heading out saw a huge man of war. 
 
got to the mark and began drifting for porgies.
to our surprise we actually saw them breaking the surface which was as far as I was concerned out of character.


 

 
this happened about 5 times throughout the day… it was feeding by the looks.
it wasn’t dolphins or anything else 100%
 
anyway a long hard day and annoyingly seeing fish on the sounder seeing them come up to our bait line on the sounder too … to no takers but we had to try.
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so we came in and headed to our camp over on the south side and got dinner and got our heads down in the tent.
 The temptation was there to head back for the second day with due good weather (which is a rarity)
but would of meant going back out in the night at 2am. 
We wer bo****ed from the night before and said we will have a day on the reefs tomorrow with no tidal demand.
yes I regret choosing that over sharking but it’s done now.
 
glass calm day and a steady run of pollack worst tides for pollack was going to do some long drifting but i managed a pollack of 11lb6oz which was a mega scrap on spinning rod.

Ash had a ling off the reef nice eating size 

we had a tired canary land on the boat and stayed for a bit which was cool.

we also had a shoal off fish right infornt of the boat all come fluttering to the surface no idea .. they wer not mackerel bass mullet … bigger thicker fish … maybe it’s wishful thinking albacore ? I’m going to ask about down there see if anyone else seen anything similar. We was thinking somehting big was going to happen like a whale breach. These fish weren’t chasing fry I’m sure they wer being chased.

Few other bits n peices and then back to the camp oh and dinner at the curry house was 👌

Went out today from Brightlingsea for the first session of the summer season and had a cracking day, 
  25 hounds between the 2
of us, 5 flatties only 4 dogfish, 1 small bass and 3 whiting. 
  

Went out today from Brightlingsea for the first session of the summer season and had a cracking day, 
  25 hounds between the 2
of us, 5 flatties only 4 dogfish, 1 small bass and 3 whiting. 
  

It’s always disappointing when the dogfish don’t turn up, 

For normal fishing I use 25/30lb Saratoga braid. Good quality and cheap on eBay. 

😭 Ah, what a shame. It's always annoying when you get loads of other species but not the one you're really after. Still, well done for trying. 😉🤣

I’ve remotely hacked your gps and stolen all your marks.  Today was the first one on the list. 😎

Went out today from Brightlingsea for the first session of the summer season and had a cracking day, 
  25 hounds between the 2
of us, 5 flatties only 4 dogfish, 1 small bass and 3 whiting.