Josh

Pain in the ass mate . 
 
People not in the boat world don’t reliease how much our happiness is determined by the poxy forecast 😂

Problem is weather windows are so small this time of year I don’t have much notice…. 
 
Charters who are out 7 days per week operate knowing they’ll get out 30-40% of the time…. Which is tough… factor in I’m working full time it don’t give me much notice to get out sadly 😞 
It’s not even certain I can get out… need this swell to die down…. 2.5m at 5s period is not pleasant

Tried to get offshore on Saturday. I had a call from my charter boat skipper mate… “Luke I’m down to 10knts…” a nice 2m swell at 7s meant I spent the day inshore. 
 
Yes I could of been beaten up for 3 hours on the way out but it’s not much fun…
Pollack to 9lb, pouting to 2lb, tope to just under 20lb oh a doggie (been a long time since the last one)
No pics as someone left his phone in his car all day…. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Its getting quiet inshore now, 2-3 weeks left on the wrecks and outer reefs and probably end of my lure season. Hopefully running offshore until late November and then call it time until April… (Boat out, boat training and a garden makeover to keep me busy over the winter) 

If anyone can get to Milford haven for 07:30 tomorrow you can jump on 🤣

nice fishing there mate, well done 👍

Managed to get out offshore one day 
No takers on the big rods but saw tunas and one thresher jump clean out the water.
 
whilst drifting Ed started hitting into pollack on the feathers slightly better ones so I switched over the squid rod for a sidewinder and left it just off the bottom 
 
instantly a pollack of similar size 
 
little while later rods goes over 
Spinning rod so light setup  Ed said Uv got a good fish on there I said could be just a channel whiting mate.. surfaces …big bass ! get the net !!!! 6 n hlf lb ! Thankyou !
Then I gave the rod to Ed for a go . Next fish another decent bass tad smaller !
fantastic! 
 
 


 
 

 
such bad weather so we had one day in the harbour on surface lures . But we was supposed to be trying for gilts … but the bass were too appealing 
amazing fun really surprised as we was expecting tiny nursery bass but there was some lumps in there and I imagine with a little more time in there we could winkle out some more .
tryed rag , sinking lures , but the surface poppers won… snatching them so aggressively good sport .
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 




 
think we’re on…
mackerel, Scad ,Pollack ,Pilchard
Pout , Whiting , Bass, Cod,
Cuckoo wrasse
Squid, Weaver, Dogfish, Blenie ,
wish us some good weather and hope for a few big boys or girls …
 
Josh
 

Hi Alain,
With the Merc 150 the water pressure is 2psi on muffs, 11 psi on idle before the thermostat has opened, 7 psi on idle when the thermostat has opened fully, and 22 psi at 3000rpm. The max pressure is 35psi at WOT.
With regard to the BFT, this autumn / winter my interest is more in finding big Pollock and also locating wrecks where there could be some decent Ling. Also, Kyle wants me to anchor over a wreck for some conger, but that is easy, because nearly all our wrecks here hold a decent head of slimy snakes, with 50lb fish being fairly common.

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Today was going to be a quick morning session as the sea was forecast to kick up rough at 11:00 (ish).
The day didn’t start well as when I stopped at Tesco’s for fuel, I realized that my wallet was at home, so I guess that cost me a good 15 -20 mins. Finally go to the slip and launched at 08:00, which was 30 minutes later than I had planned.
The real purpose of today was a shake down of the engine service to make sure everything is OK and to look at the engine parameters to reference against for the next 12 months. Once out of the harbour and into the navigation channel I checked the engine temp, oil pressure, water pressure, charging voltage, and also the responsiveness of the new trim pump to the active trim ……….. all was working just as it should.
I decided to try a wreck that I haven’t fished for a couple of years that is about 10 miles out. I know that @fishybuisness sometime fishes it, as the wreck is more toward Torbay. A steady 25knts soon had me on the wreck, but then it took me a few minutes to sort out the panoptics, I guess the grease monkey’s had been playing !  I reset the depth to Auto and set the gain at 60% and soon had a good image of the wreck in 155ft. After several drifts with both a slow jig and shads, it was obvious that nobody was home.
I moved onto a wreck that often gives me Autumn Bass and is about 11 miles out in 135ft. By this time (about 10:00) the sea is beginning kick up but just about OK to drift. A few drifts saw me catch 2 pout (one very big and one small) and 2 of the tiniest mackerel I have ever seen. They were smaller than the 150g jig but perfectly lip hooked, so I guess they were going for the shiny jig hooks and not the jig.
At about 11:00 something quite strange happened. I had seen Dolphins on the way out to the wreck at about 8 miles and they joined me for a mile or so and then disappeared.  I was fishing on the port side and I heard quite a splash behind me on the starboard side, I turned around just to see some water disturbance on the surface. I assumed it was probably the Dolphins, as we often see them on the wrecks.
However, about 10 mins went by and all of a sudden a BFT breached right beside the boat on the port side. It was so close that it hit the line of the jigging rod and made me jump backwards. Not a huge BFT, about 6ft long so maybe 300lb, but he breached clean out of the water and took me by surprise, TBH I feck’in near shat myself and had to sit down for a cup of coffee !
By 11:45 the sea had really kicked up, and I was taking the odd wave over the stern (RIBS don’t have a splash well), which is OK as the pumps clear it quickly, and if the deck floods, then the twin 4 inch elephant trunks will empty at the rate of 38,000L per hour.
I decided it was time to head back in. The sea was confused with 1.5m waves about every 3 secs, however, I managed a comfortable 22knts back to the slip.
The total trip was 27nm, but very enjoyable indeed. At least it has proved that the winter species have not taken up residence on the wrecks yet, and also the Bass are late moving onto the wrecks before they head off to the spawning grounds in the western approaches.
Sorry, no pics today ……… I would have been nice to snap a pic of the BFT, but it happened way too quickly.

Well Done  Josh      Fowey as a lot to offer  inside  & out side the Harbour     tight lines  Alain 

Should be ok tomorrow?

There is some proper shit weather on Wednesday / Thursday ...............
 
Tomorrow is good here in Lymebay, I have just finished getting the boat ready for a morning session. Wind is light NW, veering light SE at 13:00, on a neap tide.

Nice report! 
I've got to try for 🦑  next time I go out 

Good work so far @Josh! Glad to see you got a dogfish too - you can sit back and enjoy the rest of the trip now 👍😉🤣

Nice one Josh, how long you down for?

Managed to get out offshore one day 
No takers on the big rods but saw tunas and one thresher jump clean out the water.
 
whilst drifting Ed started hitting into pollack on the feathers slightly better ones so I switched over the squid rod for a sidewinder and left it just off the bottom 
 
instantly a pollack of similar size 
 
little while later rods goes over 
Spinning rod so light setup  Ed said Uv got a good fish on there I said could be just a channel whiting mate.. surfaces …big bass ! get the net !!!! 6 n hlf lb ! Thankyou !
Then I gave the rod to Ed for a go . Next fish another decent bass tad smaller !
fantastic! 
 
 


 
 

 
such bad weather so we had one day in the harbour on surface lures . But we was supposed to be trying for gilts … but the bass were too appealing 
amazing fun really surprised as we was expecting tiny nursery bass but there was some lumps in there and I imagine with a little more time in there we could winkle out some more .
tryed rag , sinking lures , but the surface poppers won… snatching them so aggressively good sport .
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 




 
think we’re on…
mackerel, Scad ,Pollack ,Pilchard
Pout , Whiting , Bass, Cod,
Cuckoo wrasse
Squid, Weaver, Dogfish, Blenie ,
wish us some good weather and hope for a few big boys or girls …
 
Josh
 

Managed to get out offshore one day 
No takers on the big rods but saw tunas and one thresher jump clean out the water.
 
whilst drifting Ed started hitting into pollack on the feathers slightly better ones so I switched over the squid rod for a sidewinder and left it just off the bottom 
 
instantly a pollack of similar size 
 
little while later rods goes over 
Spinning rod so light setup  Ed said Uv got a good fish on there I said could be just a channel whiting mate.. surfaces …big bass ! get the net !!!! 6 n hlf lb ! Thankyou !
Then I gave the rod to Ed for a go . Next fish another decent bass tad smaller !
fantastic! 
 
 


 
 

 
such bad weather so we had one day in the harbour on surface lures . But we was supposed to be trying for gilts … but the bass were too appealing 
amazing fun really surprised as we was expecting tiny nursery bass but there was some lumps in there and I imagine with a little more time in there we could winkle out some more .
tryed rag , sinking lures , but the surface poppers won… snatching them so aggressively good sport .
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 




 
think we’re on…
mackerel, Scad ,Pollack ,Pilchard
Pout , Whiting , Bass, Cod,
Cuckoo wrasse
Squid, Weaver, Dogfish, Blenie ,
wish us some good weather and hope for a few big boys or girls …
 
Josh
 

Managed to get out offshore one day 
No takers on the big rods but saw tunas and one thresher jump clean out the water.
 
whilst drifting Ed started hitting into pollack on the feathers slightly better ones so I switched over the squid rod for a sidewinder and left it just off the bottom 
 
instantly a pollack of similar size 
 
little while later rods goes over 
Spinning rod so light setup  Ed said Uv got a good fish on there I said could be just a channel whiting mate.. surfaces …big bass ! get the net !!!! 6 n hlf lb ! Thankyou !
Then I gave the rod to Ed for a go . Next fish another decent bass tad smaller !
fantastic! 
 
 


 
 

 
such bad weather so we had one day in the harbour on surface lures . But we was supposed to be trying for gilts … but the bass were too appealing 
amazing fun really surprised as we was expecting tiny nursery bass but there was some lumps in there and I imagine with a little more time in there we could winkle out some more .
tryed rag , sinking lures , but the surface poppers won… snatching them so aggressively good sport .
 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 




 
think we’re on…
mackerel, Scad ,Pollack ,Pilchard
Pout , Whiting , Bass, Cod,
Cuckoo wrasse
Squid, Weaver, Dogfish, Blenie ,
wish us some good weather and hope for a few big boys or girls …
 
Josh
 

😂😂😂😂 I know mate I’ll give this a read tonight 
thanks Andy .