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23 hours ago, GPSguru said:
Well done Josh, some super fish there.
I was going out with my mate today, and we had planned the 40 - 50 mile wrecks, but the wind turned easterly (not as forecast) so we gave it a miss.
I haven't been out since the 17th due to a poorly tow truck with intermittent electrical issues, but that is now almost solved, so I will be out there when the next suitable weather arrives.
Hopefully you sort the car out soon did I see u said it was a jeep in a prev post ?
Then be back out there on the big winter pollack..
easterly never pleasant!
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Hi all
been a while sorry been quiet
I had been in awe of recent weather readings over the last couple weeks and was just too tempting for a trip out.
so I rallied up my troop which was my dad for this trip booked the b n b didn’t want to rough it this time . Specially with pops.
got down to the West Country in good time Friday night ready to fish Saturday.
so plan was with minimal to pretty much no wrecking done on my own boat I wanted to get out and try . I wanted to get to about 20 miles then start but the northerly was a little choppy so I held tighter for cover and said we will fish outwards and hope it flattens which it did.
so on to the first wreck I chose ling rigs baited with mackerel that I had brought down.
dad went on lures for pollack
1st drift a pout
2nd drift moved over a tad.. dads rod lunges over and zoomed off good pollack to start the day well chuffed we were specially as we were overlooking these inshore wrecks.
so yeah let’s re run that drift 3rd drift in and I’m getting a few pecks I thought pout but then my rod tightens up then i thought oh shit snag
then it moved ! And started really kicking ect oh yes I said we got either a ling or a conger on here !
After a good account it surfaced so lightly hooked on to the boat and I was totally totally made up !
i thought maybe 20 lb looking but the Ruben heatens said 16’ n hlf … either way I was well buzzing specially so soon I’m the trip !
she was really fat too
Anyway as the weather improved we pushed around other wrecks with not a lot of joy I did
manage a half decent pollack and smaller fish some jumbo pout whiting and cuokoo wrasse
and the dolphins showed up which is of course always a welcome sight
until next time !Josh
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Very long 😴 cheers buddy
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15 minutes ago, Saintly Fish said:
Nice going Josh. Two cracking fish for your efforts!
Did you keep and eat the octopus??Oh mate I’m gutted I didn’t I put him back don’t really know why … any conciliation i kept the other fish
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So with a weather window incoming midweek trip.
was going to push for two days but turned out to just be 1.
wednesday was holding on every update force 2
untill the morning update wow ! Thanks !
wer already here in Cornwall and it updated to force 4 for the wholemorning,
doable but just much more Unpleasant anyway.. it wasn’t too bad more left over swell than chop. And it flattened off in the afternoon as promised.
i took the big rods incase I managed any fresh mackerel for any large suspects.
but it was dead on the sabikis so pushed out switched the tackle round to boom n lures and hit the reefs..
all be it bloody hard work as nets were right over it
not sure 🤔 preservation wise how this is good … mind you is any fishing…
but netting in spawning season but surely we want them to spawn anyhoo a topic that I’m too tired for ha. !
says me ready to crane them up on the 4inch sidewinder…
Slow going but found a few and a octopus a first !
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31 minutes ago, JDP said:
Why the long leader and not simply a wind on that you can literally wind the hook to the tip of the rod if you like. Lucky you didn't get the line wrapped around the rod ending in a snapped rod or even wrapped around the prop in a big mess. Theres also the chance of getting wrapped in heavy loose line yourself, which could end badly with such heavy fish. Not being funny but these bigger fish really need two people for catch and release, different matter catch kill.
Its fantastic to see so many of these fish about, not sure what's going on with tuna generally but here we normally get a 2 week opportunity on bluefin and about the same with yellowfin (both like different temp water). However we have had around 7 months of combined tuna and albacore which at times are in land based reach. This isn't just our part of the coast but a stretch of water 15000km long has been getting similar catches which hasn't been heard of in many years. Bait fish, mostly mackerel have been in such massive schools that you quite literally drive over them all day along the continental shelf. We are pretty lucky that most of these bluefin are small 20-40kg which are easy work fishing solo with quite light spin gear.
Yeah the leader was too long that’s how long I thought I wanted it JDP, but next time I’d go shorter.
Bites haven’t been like the mackerel fishing so if their was any doubt in spooking tackle I wanted to increase the fluro length..
I know people who use
wind ons
short hook lengths
long hook lengths
The Post already says that the long leader went around my rod eyes and very nearly got into the prop.
already said about needing two people but in this case wasn't possible.
fact its done the fish swam off
And Im alive so untill next time
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On 11/26/2021 at 12:07 AM, GPSguru said:
The fish wasn't gaffed, probably a ‘loose’ description by Josh.
The proper name of the tool we use is a lip hook. It looks like a gaff, but is carefully inserted under the chin from the lower gill flap, or in the mouth and out of the chin gill flap. It is a safe and recognised way of holding the fish at the side of the boat for recovery whilst motoring forward at 3 - 4 knts to ensure oxygenated water is flowing over the gills.
Mine is made from 12mm stainless with a T bar handle so it can be roped if required. For the rope I use a long 24mm soft multiplatt. i know that Josh uses the same tool.
Yes that’s right GPS
I assumed by my post that ‘gaff’ would of been seen as lip hooked in the chin where the fish doesn’t suffer.
that is what I did managed to do all but not for very long …certainly not gaffed to kill .
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On 11/25/2021 at 11:22 PM, JDP said:
Pretty sad to loose a tired fish with a gaff shot in it. Maybe think about doing this style of fishing with another person onboard for the welfare of the fish until you become experienced enough to target them solo. The truth can be harsh but this kind of report doesn't favour regulations to be changed.
Agree with you JDP
the trip was on for 2 man crew as always to be fair general safety and costs of the trip.
my friend fell ill and could not attend I couldn’t get anyone on the same days notice unfortunately…
I suppose to be successful we have to learn what unsuccessful is sometimes too.
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On 11/24/2021 at 10:00 AM, Odyssey said:
Angling trust are on the case now, they are putting together some information to lobby the government too….
Im not sure what we as individuals can do but I’ll do some digging and see what I find
Yeah mate we need to group together on this, if we are serious about not loosing some of the best fishing we have over here
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On 11/24/2021 at 12:03 AM, GPSguru said:
A centre consol boat is a lot easier !
I bet !
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6 minutes ago, Saintly Fish said:
I'm sure the image of the fish by the boat is etched into your mind?
So, with this, could you not do a sketch ??🤪🤪🤪
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Just now, JonC said:
I suggest you get yourself back out there and get another one with a photo.🤣
I like your style 👊😎
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1 hour ago, Andy135 said:
No, not heard anything along those lines. Who & where are they discussing this?
I saw it posted all over the shark fishing forums on Facebook but to be fair it was glancing look as I was boating , just saw negative looked away … the post was abo it how to stop it to be fair
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52 minutes ago, Dicky said:
Well done again mate, cracking fish. There seem to be more tuna around now than there was all summer. The tagging skippers catches were getting better and better just as the program was coming to an end.
With regards to the banning of beagle fishing is this in general or just when they are breeding as i know there has been pressure to stop fishing for them when in pup for a while.
Re::porgies
I’m not sure to be fair in the details of that but hopefully neither right.
re: tuna
yeah I’d say so everything was later … and I’d probably say that the skippers were learning more n more on the job as they went which picked up catch rate ..
their also fight times are down sometimes to 5minutes,
those massive spreader bars put enormous drag on the fish .. I suppose from a protective program point of view it has its place .
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1 hour ago, Saintly Fish said:
Good report @Josh, sounds like fun. But, we have a rule here, no photo = no catch. Sorry better luck next time 🤣
Great breach shot btw!
Mate , I kno this is the world we live in and believe me I was telling my mate and he was like what’s the matter and I said I still feel short of it. But reality is I couldn’t of got much face bombing on my own I just wanted picture of it while it had fully surfaced and gave up! Oh well keeps us coming back right!
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Thanks Andy
yeah why not mate ,I will do
Most of all safety, your clipping in to serious fish one wrong move and it’s all over.
what amazing fishing we have here..
on another note that might be worth a seperate post ,,, have you guys heard about ‘somehting about banning porbeagle fishing ‘
Not official but doesn’t sound nice…I mean obviously we would just say we are fishing for something else but how long before they say you then can’t fish for that ..
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So single handed trip this time.
heading west ! Two clear days of weather I just could not pass up even at the difficulties of being single handed with what might crop up..
day 1,
No hook ups other than
loads of 6inch mackerel constantly pretty much whenever I tried.
(always nice when this happens)
Stunning weather and displays of tuna literally every 30minutes or so but not fields of them just one full breach but there obviously was numbers you could tell.
Managed to catch a good breach shot.I had one do this between my floats and no takes .
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day 2 ;
Arrival harbour 6.30am
bacon buttys on
exit harbour 7am
Day due for the same weather but it wasn’t. Was quite a northerly chop going fortunately I was in pretty close which helped but it weren’t ideal… anyway
no birds
no bait fish
not one tuna bust sight
this was looking like a different place to yesterday…
so I carried on eventually found the mackerel and tons of it all small.
after about 4 hrs of getting pushed offshore I saw the birds working In close again and thought I’ll go in for another 2 hrs drift back again from there… so I’m not too far off to finish.
well I arrived at the birds put one bait out sent it back on the ballon.
put my second one down bent down to pick something up got up and the float was gone !
F*****!!!
Wer on and at a rate of knots !!ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
A run that was frightening literally makes u question wether this is for fun !
Engine on and into battle getting stuck in with a lot more confidence in my ability now .. although it was bloody hard work driving the boat and fishing this way. I had to be on the wheel continuously. Or it would of been gone !
anyway I had it on the leader but (lesson learnt ) my traces are still way too long pulling his head up without ditching the rod was almost impossible this was about an hour in. Then the fight was very nearly over as that extra long trace wrapped round one eyes and I actually said ‘that’s a lost fish’
somehow I managed to unwrap it with the prop going how I didn’t loose it I don’t know!
anyway so another 40 mins the fish changed tactics now and was gunning for depth trying to keep me straight so I kept driving forward and around to avoid this .
it was helping but getting hard and tiring obviously …. Every time I wanted to get stuck into the rod I need to go back to the wheel to manoeuvre…
so back on the leader gloves on same thing I can either stay looking at the fish 10foot under or Unclip and go for it.
so I did and YES I got her up monumental size what a sight ! I stuck the gaff in and felt a wave of relief but to be fair the only negative was that he shook his head so much so that he actually slipped off the gaff turned and popped the hook himself .
i was gutted from a glory photo point of view but I knew i caught this fish unlike last year. Not a bad job on my own i thought … I wouldn’t recommend it though no matter how many people do it.
Sorry I haven’t got more photos you’ll have to use imagination and take my word for it this time !
back to Kent!
Josh
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22 hours ago, Odyssey said:
I’ll need to do some research this winter….
I doubt I’ll ever get one but it’s nice to dream 🤣
Mike Sherwood probably be the guy to speak to mate , helpful bloke
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Love the jeep
i have Jeep Grand Cherokee on a 08 3.0L crd ltd
ultimate towing weapon
comfortable for long journeys ,
road tax is extortionate and fuel bill is moderate,, but beats killing the shit out of my previous Honda CR-V just wasn’t up to it.