captin slows old outlaw

A tough old cowboy from Texas told his granddaughter that if she wanted to live a long life, the secret was to sprinkle a pinch of gunpowder on her oatmeal every day. she did this religiously until she died at the age of 103. She left behind 14 children, 30 grandchildren, 45 great grandchildren, 25 great great grandchildren and a 40 foot hole where the crematorium used to be. Geoff.

are they fishing the solent
.just kidding.
but it was a nice dream.

Fishing from a boat is still a bit of a novelty for me, but watching youtube people slow pitch jigging and reading reports here and elsewhere it look like good fun. I only lure fish and we won't be going miles out on our little boat but I thought I would scratch together a budget set up for light SPJ up to 20m. Only lure fishing means I only have small fixed spool reels and I dont want to invest in a multiplier as I have no idea about them whatsoever. So finding a SPJ rod rung for this had been holding me back but one surfaced on the Veals website https://www.veals.co.uk/product/rapture-deep-fall-slow-pitch-spinning-100gm/. It looks OK for a fraction of the price of the more heavy duty tools.

I have some multicolour j-Braid on order.
I also bought a few jigs, and some smaller casting and or pitching jigs which arrived today from Joker who are local to me and I am hoping work on the local fish! I think they look pretty good. I did email the guy that sells them asking for advice on which ones for more inshore areas but never got a response 😒 so did a bit of guessing on colours 😕.

Anyway I don't suppose we will hit the water until June, but when we do I will update the thread if they work or not, and whether a fixed spool reel just generated wind knots! Might throw the casting ones about a bit before that though.
Anybody else try SPJ in shallower water?
Cheers
Roger
 

@Andy135

you are so helpfull to outhers

poor jon what has he done to deserv all this

poor jon what has he done to deserv all this

If you’re fishing on Jon’s boat there’s a greater chance you either spend the day doing donuts with his autopilot or breaking down🤣🤣 and because I won’t be fishing out of the river he has no one to follow! You will be catching whiting all day in the stink🤣🤣

Why would you think such a thing 🤔🫣

Not that I’m aware of… but you never know what colour pants the crew had on. 
 
Shout out to West Wales Marine. I sent them the photos, agreed it was due to a stress fracture and that it cns happen with stainless steel props…. They’ve got a spare prop in stock and another on order asap. Can’t be helpful enough to get me back on the water… 
Its hard enough trying to run a boat buisness, but when stuff goes wrong you appreciate a good supplier to get you back up and running and they have been great 🙂 Definitely recommend! 

Zook, you and I are the only two people who will know what you are on about on this forum!!! Geoff.

For now at least, I know you need the free time to finish your boat so haven;t mentioned it, don't want lord 135 to start commissioning work of his estate 😁

Don't want to give @Geoff any more excuses not to finish his boat.

Zook, you should remember that Pete and I have our boats as garden ornaments, although I suppose that it is possible that Pete may use an outboard as a recirculating pump for his fish pond! Geoff.🙂

nice report hop to see moore

evan a dogy will do

We all know it's not about the catching.. 

thank you. 
i have had a fault on the van, tried all sorts to finde the  root of it . no spark
my frend over the road  a engernear said had i tried the eath wire ,i had allready taken the battery to earth lead off cleaned ect. but had forgot the engin to frame lead, so ifitted a new one and i have a spark.so i am having a good day

that is a very bad drarwring of anndy

that is a very bad drarwring of anndy

thank you. 
i have had a fault on the van, tried all sorts to finde the  root of it . no spark
my frend over the road  a engernear said had i tried the eath wire ,i had allready taken the battery to earth lead off cleaned ect. but had forgot the engin to frame lead, so ifitted a new one and i have a spark.so i am having a good day

that is a clever bit of thinking,
anybobody got anymore tips like that and andy will have to start a new section.