suzook12

Soooo rude!!! Naughty boy you.
For that you can do 1000 lines " I must not read mayfair" 🤣

Made by Mercedes Benz, always going flat out and are difficult to overtake! Geoff.😉

I'll give that one to you Neil - I do not know where you find them (in the gutter?). Geoff.

Pickup disease! The separate chassis design is full of rust traps, the nature of the beast unfortunately. 

great report mate keep at it bud 🐳

We had constant bream all day Saturday - seemed they were ravenous despite the heat and lack of tide

Another day out and for once the conditions were perfect, flat sea and sunshine..... Other than a bit of fog hanging around first thing (went over Breydon bridge and  couldnt see the water at all....).
I ended up driving the boat once out of the harbour as we headed North out of Yarmouth. Once near the first mark, the skipper took over and set us up for our first set of drifts for mackerel. This mark proved to be hard work so tried 2 other marks and similar story. We managed about a dozen small mack so set up after tope, with the plan to fish til slack water then go after mack again......
Couple of taps, but nada, back to drifting for mack, and nothing, not a touch! Loads on the finder but not having any of it. New mark, and back after tope and finally, one of the lads who has never had a tope before, hooked in to one. 50lb male boated and returned. And that was it. The fog closed in very quickly so we headed back, me at the wheel again, man that makes ya twitchy, watching the plotter, watching the radar and staring through the fog and still looking for pot bouys. Obviously, the skipper was keeping a very cautious eye on proceedings taking over again once near the shipping lanes. We settled on a mark just outside the harbour, trying for a smoothie or something, but even this went fishless. Something was out of sorts today. Even saw about 3 dead sea birds float by.....
2 mack saved the blank for me, but still on 4 tope in 4 trips and managed to christen one of the new rods today......

Nope, was all down to Boris, it's his fault!! Starmer would have sorted it before it could have possibly happened

Another day out and for once the conditions were perfect, flat sea and sunshine..... Other than a bit of fog hanging around first thing (went over Breydon bridge and  couldnt see the water at all....).
I ended up driving the boat once out of the harbour as we headed North out of Yarmouth. Once near the first mark, the skipper took over and set us up for our first set of drifts for mackerel. This mark proved to be hard work so tried 2 other marks and similar story. We managed about a dozen small mack so set up after tope, with the plan to fish til slack water then go after mack again......
Couple of taps, but nada, back to drifting for mack, and nothing, not a touch! Loads on the finder but not having any of it. New mark, and back after tope and finally, one of the lads who has never had a tope before, hooked in to one. 50lb male boated and returned. And that was it. The fog closed in very quickly so we headed back, me at the wheel again, man that makes ya twitchy, watching the plotter, watching the radar and staring through the fog and still looking for pot bouys. Obviously, the skipper was keeping a very cautious eye on proceedings taking over again once near the shipping lanes. We settled on a mark just outside the harbour, trying for a smoothie or something, but even this went fishless. Something was out of sorts today. Even saw about 3 dead sea birds float by.....
2 mack saved the blank for me, but still on 4 tope in 4 trips and managed to christen one of the new rods today......

Chassis failure. 

We went out from Hayling on Friday afternoon to fish the tide up. We didnt have high expectations as it was a neap tide but the wether was amazing and Ive never seen the sea so calm!
After catching a few mackerel plus a bonus bass and gurnard at the drop off we headed to Boulder to make the most of any tide run. We started with whole mackerel and whole squid but had our baits ripped to bits so we rapidly changed to small strips of mackerel  on size 4 barbless circle hooks and were immediately into bream from tiddlers to 1lb plus. We ended up with 20 plus bream. I out fished Gordon - the only difference in our rigs was that I was using floating luminous round bead in  my  set up - although who knows if that made any difference apart from increasing my confidence.
As we approached slack high tide Gordon kindly kept the strap conger amused by catching a couple while I sneaked a bass of just under 4lb.  
 
Plenty of species but no dogfish - which have been noticeable by their absence in most spots we have fished this year.

I even wondered if the air pressure climbed for yesterday, but was actually lower than previous few days. Conditions should be same today, so will see how the boat fares today.
Hell yeah!!

Another day out and for once the conditions were perfect, flat sea and sunshine..... Other than a bit of fog hanging around first thing (went over Breydon bridge and  couldnt see the water at all....).
I ended up driving the boat once out of the harbour as we headed North out of Yarmouth. Once near the first mark, the skipper took over and set us up for our first set of drifts for mackerel. This mark proved to be hard work so tried 2 other marks and similar story. We managed about a dozen small mack so set up after tope, with the plan to fish til slack water then go after mack again......
Couple of taps, but nada, back to drifting for mack, and nothing, not a touch! Loads on the finder but not having any of it. New mark, and back after tope and finally, one of the lads who has never had a tope before, hooked in to one. 50lb male boated and returned. And that was it. The fog closed in very quickly so we headed back, me at the wheel again, man that makes ya twitchy, watching the plotter, watching the radar and staring through the fog and still looking for pot bouys. Obviously, the skipper was keeping a very cautious eye on proceedings taking over again once near the shipping lanes. We settled on a mark just outside the harbour, trying for a smoothie or something, but even this went fishless. Something was out of sorts today. Even saw about 3 dead sea birds float by.....
2 mack saved the blank for me, but still on 4 tope in 4 trips and managed to christen one of the new rods today......

Shame about the lack of fish Steve. Neap tides and flat seas don't ever seem to produce much for some reason. It's the same round here, I was thinking it was me but you've just proved it's not!! 👍🏻 
Fog driving gives you a twitchy bum don't it! 

Another day out and for once the conditions were perfect, flat sea and sunshine..... Other than a bit of fog hanging around first thing (went over Breydon bridge and  couldnt see the water at all....).
I ended up driving the boat once out of the harbour as we headed North out of Yarmouth. Once near the first mark, the skipper took over and set us up for our first set of drifts for mackerel. This mark proved to be hard work so tried 2 other marks and similar story. We managed about a dozen small mack so set up after tope, with the plan to fish til slack water then go after mack again......
Couple of taps, but nada, back to drifting for mack, and nothing, not a touch! Loads on the finder but not having any of it. New mark, and back after tope and finally, one of the lads who has never had a tope before, hooked in to one. 50lb male boated and returned. And that was it. The fog closed in very quickly so we headed back, me at the wheel again, man that makes ya twitchy, watching the plotter, watching the radar and staring through the fog and still looking for pot bouys. Obviously, the skipper was keeping a very cautious eye on proceedings taking over again once near the shipping lanes. We settled on a mark just outside the harbour, trying for a smoothie or something, but even this went fishless. Something was out of sorts today. Even saw about 3 dead sea birds float by.....
2 mack saved the blank for me, but still on 4 tope in 4 trips and managed to christen one of the new rods today......

Well….. most remarkable thing was the sunshine…. And flat seas…. 😮
3 trips in 3 days, 38 blues to 120lb, many over a ton, happy customers, thresher seen in slick but didn’t take the bait 😭😭😭 Tuna numbers increasing, looks like it coujd be a good autumn…
Todays trip blown off but such is life! 

Fished on a charter out of West Bay on Saturday, the first day of their 2 day boat comp. I could only fish the first day but entered anyway (waste of £15 lol). We started off on a wreck around 8 miles out and caught small bass from the off, only 1 or 2 a drift. Another boat joined us and after a few drifts he decided to drop his anchor which messed up our drifts so we ended up moving off. Out of the dozen or so bass only 2 were keepers the biggest going around 6lb which i think was the biggest of the weekend. We then had a spell just drifting away from the wreck over sand looking for flats, i had a tub gurnard and a small thornback which i was hoping was a plaice on the way up nut no such luck. There were a couple of red gurnards caught but it was slow so we moved back inshore on the edge of a reef and had a spell at anchor. Loads of bream to around 2lbs, mackeral, pout, more gurnards a pollack and a cod. Unfortunately as the tide increased we swung in the tide over an old piece of rope or something on the bottom and with a few of the guys snagging it regularly and losing gear we had a few drifts over the reef. Slow again but there were a few bream, another pollack and a keeper bass for my brother. No prizes for us but overall a nice day at sea in good company so was happy after not getting out since June

Advanced powerboat course with Emma this weekend…. Trust me to pick best fishing conditions 😢
Ah well, hopefully out Monday on a tuna trip 

Managed to get a (very rare) video of my baby the other day….. 
 

Annnnnndddd obligatory dog on boat picture 😁😁😁

Two prawns were swimming around in the sea. One called Justin and the other called Kristian.
The prawns were constantly being harassed and threatened by sharks that inhabited the area.
Finally one day Justin said to Kristian, "I'm fed up with being a prawn; I wish I was a shark, and then I wouldn't have any worries about being eaten".
A large mysterious cod appeared and said, "Your wish is granted".
Lo and behold, Justin turned into a shark. Horrified, Kristian immediately swam away, afraid of being eaten by his old friend.
Time passed (as it does) and Justin found life as a shark boring and lonely. All his old chums simply swam away whenever he came close to them. Justin gradually realised that his new menacing appearance was the cause of his sad plight.
While swimming alone one day he saw the mysterious cod again and he thought perhaps the mysterious fish could change him back into a prawn.
He approached the cod and begged to be changed back, and, lo and behold, he found himself turned back into a prawn.
With tears of joy in his tiny little eyes, Justin swam to Kristian's home.
As he opened the coral gate, memories came flooding back. He banged on the door and shouted, "It's me, Justin, your old friend, come out and see me again".
Kristian replied, "No way man, you'll eat me. You're now a shark, the enemy, and I'll not be tricked into being your dinner".
Justin cried back "No, I'm not. That was the old me. I've changed..."
"I've found Cod. I'm a prawn again Kristian!!..lol

Wow 300 quid is high, its crazy how some fishing items can be cheaper in the UK or at least very close in price and others way more expensive. My last grappler was $200 Aus which is bellow 100 quid now with our bad exchange rate.