Scotch_Egg2012

Weather looking good for a trip mid channel Saturday,  hopefully holds and we'll get our first wrecking trip in this year

Give Hillhead spit a go over the spring LW,  Thornies and Hounds are showing

I occasionally suffer it, usually on a particularly rough day and with my head down tackling up. Not suffered it on my own boat yet but have on other people's. 

Kwells do the business for me,  found Stugeron pretty useless. 

Absolutely hate it, properly ruins the day if it doesn't get nipped in the bud. 

Take up the free SeaCheck from the RNLI,  they'll go over your boat have a chat and give lots of advice all for free. 

I used to use peeler off the beach, but not anymore.  Hardbacks all the way, same on the boat. I don't bother with peelers anymore if I want Hounds. 

Last year had far more Hounds on squid than I did crab

7 hours ago, mike farrants said:

i've also heard that yellow is the colour - and will be targetting the bream this year too - but what do the pop ups do? lift the bait? eg are they floating beads? 

looking forward to hitting the bream between Ringstead and lulworth -and in portland harbour!

 

 

I reckon the floating beads don't pop the bait up much but give the bait a more neutral bouyancy so it wafts around in the tide. 

23 minutes ago, Geoff said:

Hi SE2012. I was not referring to deglazing brake shoes I am aware that that used to be quite common practice and is probably still done today, especially in the classic car world. I suspect that the shoes will fit in the drum now that Andy has them cleaned up and removed any lip - after all they fitted before removal. My butchering concerns were Andy and his 60 grit flapwheel. Geoff. ☺️

Just felt I'd better explain as some reading may have thought the hacksaw is used to saw material off the shoe 

1 hour ago, Geoff said:

Well done Andy, it just goes to show the difference an hours work can make. I suspect that if you follow the advice from Ian they will go on now without having to butcher the shoes. Good luck anyway. Geoff.☺️

It's far from "butchering" if done properly with the right technique, linishing shoes with a hacksaw is a time tested method used widely in my industry mainly to deglaze brake shoes ready for MOT.

The aim is not to use the blade to saw but used more like a file.  You actually have much more control of the amount of material you remove than using electrical tools plus you don't need to remove the shoes from the vehicle. 

Just now, Andy135 said:

This will be my fall back option. Instead of a blade I'll just put them in the vice and run the flap wheel over them to take off half a mil or so - whilst wearing a respirator!

#safetyfirst

Absolutely with a respirator,  you won't need to remove the shoes doing it with a blade though,  just thinking if they were that much of a pain to fit

If they still don't go over rather than lathe the drum why not remove some of the friction material on the shoes? Can easily be done with a hacksaw blade and you won't need to take much off

2 hours ago, Andy135 said:

West of the Hounds in Brack Bay. Often covered in pot buoys.

Gotcha I know it, just didn't know it was nicknamed teardrop

15 hours ago, Saintly Fish said:

Leo and I headed west to search out some rays, hounds and early bream. We headed for sowley boom. 
after 4 hours and no bites we moved closer in shore. After another hour and no bites, we headed back east and anchored near a very small wreck just south east of the bramble bank. 
Leo had his new rod with him and was first into the fish with a 4lb hound...

 

Then I landed the obligatory lsd....

I didn’t weigh it, but seeing as it’s the first pic of one today, I claim the lead in the comp. 

Another two hours passed and again no bites. Time for rods up, but hang on..... Leo’s rod gave another nod and he soon landed a better hound at 7lb.. 

 

 

At least his new rod got a try out and the sun was shining!! 

Interesting to know as I was thinking possibly Sowley next weekend,  think I may give that a miss and head Needles for something a bit different. Weather dependant ofc

13 hours ago, Andy135 said:

Just heard from the same charter skipper that boulder and teardrop have bream to 2lb at present.

Good luck with the tope. Utopia then the Overfalls I'm guessing for you?

I'm not a big fan of Utopia,  Medmerry, the side of Boulder and Pullar are my usual Tope marks.  Overfalls for Blondes and Tope. 

Not heard of Teardrop any idea where that is? 

1 hour ago, Andy135 said:

Good write up Scott. Sounds like it was a  hard day but at least there were a few fish to reward your efforts 👍

I heard of one decent bream taken on a charter today, but that's all. Reckon they're not quite here yet - maybe another few weeks before they arrive in earnest.

Reckon the next set of weekend smaller tides will see them there proper.  Everything hopefully starting to get going, the Smoothounds were 9 & 7lb so they are on the way. 

Tope are the target for me though,  I'll not be bothering with Hounds this year.  Tope then onto the Blonde rays

Pretty much what Andy says,  I personally use yellow popups on my rigs. I've done side by side tests and found the same rig with the popups 99% outfished the non popup rig some days by a considerable amount.  Yellow is the colour, a tip passed to me by a former team England angler.  As for groundbait it does work at certain times and marks, I mince fish, squid and add boiled rice with a bit of bran to stiffen it up, freeze it then I use another rod to lower a cage feeder full of it

Pretty dumb but you need to look at the yanks another level of stupidity, 

That's a different level of stupid,  can't believe he hasn't even googled them to see the difference

Andy would you mind posting your settings for the sidescan,  I've got it but have never managed to get any settings that give me a nice image 

1 minute ago, Andy135 said:

That's a helpful guide Scott. Thanks.

I made my sizing judgement based on what other boats of a similar size and power output were using on the References section of their site. My boat is 26ft. Boats of 26-28ft with more power and in some cases more weight are using 300mm sized interceptors, but I'd be open minded to go bigger. I quite like the look of a pair of their chine interceptors coupled with a pair of straight ones. 🤔

I thought 300s would be fine for me but going by that calculator to get a "good" effect I'd probably need 2x 600 interceptors and a pair of 300s.  

Nice boat,  I looked at those in amongst the Arvors. Settled on a Merry Fisher 

Just adding that you'll get on plane quicker with the outboard trimmed right in,  when on plane start trimming out until you hit the sweetspot as Andy described,  my trim gauge is done on my plotter so I remember the number I trim to in normal conditions. 

Think the 300 would be too small for you, have a look at the attachment

zipwake-quick-sizing-series-s(1).pdf

1 minute ago, Andy135 said:

Certainly sounds like they do what they say they can do then.

Must admit I'm very seriously considering a 300S interceptor kit... Force 4 have them in stock and if I went with these I'd offset the expense against the replacement Lenco ram and switch panel that I need to buy anyway 🤔🤔

Be interested to see how you get on with them if you do fit them, they are on my wish list

On 3/30/2021 at 4:41 PM, Cuda4 said:

I hope to be out on Sunday having another try for plaice, the blocks or hayling bay will be my destination. I have had worm from Dave's tackle in Gosport this year and it was good quality, I will be giving Cosham tackle ago as they look to have had some nice worm these last few weeks on their FB page and it's a new shop which has opened this year so will give it a try,they claim to be the cheapest in the area.

Steve

I have used Cosham angling the worm is top notch and at £16 per pound very good price.  Although I normally use Rovers in Fareham whose worm is also very good

Nicely done,  thought we saw you.  I was out on Ray's boat,  we started at Hayling Bay until the tide was right to have an early go on Boulder for a Bream.  Needless to say Boulder saw no Bream but Hayling gave us quite a mix of species