suzook12

Don't need to spend much to fish with jigs. A spinning rod and a FS reel from shore or a spinning rod that will take a multi from a boat will be fine. But as an exception that proves the rule, Leo caught a whopper of a wrasse using my spare spinning rod and FS reel when we were with @Odyssey on Odyssey in Wales back in the autumn last year.
Suggest you spend no more than £50 on a few jigs of various weights (colour less important in my view) and use a spinning rod or 12/20 and just see what happens 👍.

No chance anytime soon
 

Put it up on youtube then post a link and it embeds

So you feel its definitely worth the investment then.
I will monitor the water colour around here, its often quite murky round this area til summer proper (both days). Even the drift marks are very hard work seldom producing much.
Good work you two 👍
 

Here you go - 
we had a fold down seat added on the starboard side .

Smartliner fisher 22 contemporary 
Got this last year and can’t wait to be spending plenty more time on her this summer!!! 
She’s got a 150 Suzuki on the back and is a really lovely stable boat, a nice upgrade from our old 30 year old Orkney Strikeliner. 
 
if I’m not out on ORCA I’ll be bombing around Pembs in a 10ft AB rib with the spearfishing gear on board! 
 
can’t see that there are many of these around - maybe one or two in Swansea perhaps? So hopefully see some of you lot on the water ….

I would say so. To be fair we didn't do much lure fishing to start with, but with SPJ's it's getting more consistent than with jellies or shads. Drop down until you hit the bottom then two turns up and start jigging.
What I like about SPJ is the variety of species you get. Across the boat SPJ sessions, we've had... pollack, cod, bass, coalfish and wrasse, and from the shore it's been mackerel, bass, wrasse, pollack and gurnard.

So you boys seeing better catches on SPJ over normal fishing?
 

@Saintly Fish and I snuck out for a dangle today instead of working. Plan was SPJ's in Yarmouth Deeps and around the Needles, then drifting with squid baits over Dolphin Bank to see what was home.
A lovely morning with beautiful conditions greeted us.

The bass were at home at the Deeps. I lost a good fish at the surface while Neil was being slow with the net. He then lost another which made me feel better. Then I boated this beauty.

We tried the Needles Bridge next, but no bites, so on to the Dolphin Bank.
Neil bagged up on dogfish but also had a nice smoothound and a young tope.


I too managed a dogfish (phew!).
Back to the Deeps on the flood and as we drifted past Hurst Castle Neil hooked into a proper fish that snapped him off at the leader. Sadly we don't know what it was, probably either a bass or the Kraken.
Headed home after that as the tide picked up and made jigging too difficult. Thanks Neil for a great day on the water. Lots of giggles and hook-ups, and some decent fish to the boat.

@Andy135

Well….the weather played ball but the Bream marks were stuffed with Bass 

Judging by the current forecast I look to be in danger of actually doing some fishing this weekend 😱
Pretty sure I can remember what to do...
1. Bait hook
2. Drop down
3. Wind in dogfish that I didn't know was on.
4. Repeat.

PROPer job 🙂 back on the water…. Wish this rain would bugger off… whole of the haven is starting to look like Cardiff coloured water there is so much run off 🫣

Targa came out Monday for a bit of TLC and an arse wipe, surprisingly just a bit of slime underneath
A few jobs on the list (apart from the usual clean, polish and antifoul)
When I fitted a replacement radome, as well as running a new power cable to it, I ran a new cable to the horns (that didn't work) in readiness for lift out time, all tinned cable I'll have you know too
Connected at both ends and gave it a try, you'd have thought a freight train was in the yard, success, then 1 horn failed and sounded more like Brum
All connections good, so must be the horn, I'm claiming a 50% success rate for this
Then fitted the new temp gauge, turned on ignition and needle went straight to zero, which I would expect
Haven't got a decent enough water supply to run engine up to temp, so will claim 50% on this as well for the time being
Have to resplice the warp to the anchor rode, so dropped it all on the concrete ready for when it dries (the rope) a bit
Thought this would also be a good time to remove the gypsy and give the shaft etc a good clean and regrease
All went well until I tried to remove the stainless steel prong thing that is supposed to stop the rope from staying on the gypsy and divert it into the anchor locker (it never does on it's own, always needs someone pulling into the anchor locker)
First stainless screw just spun in it's threads (aluminium, never a good idea) the second was pretty much welded in and I rounded the Phillips head
No problem for an engineer like myself, I simply swore loudly and drilled the bastard thing out, I have now bought some new 6mm bolts (or screws as I called them earlier) and will tap out the base to suit. I've called this a fail for now, but is completely fixable
Next was the prop, no dings or hairline cracks that I could see and popped right off on the first request
All boxed up tonight and will be winging it's way to Castle marine by end of play tomorrow, 95% on this exercise just incase it wants more than a polish
Also what seemed like a few areas of osmosis, were nothing more than water between the antifoul and the gel coat, as the gel was solid and not blistered or raised underneath it
Cleaned the grime off her ready for some chine shine tomorrow and a good mopping when the weather allows
As we had the jetwash out I thought I'd try and get the lichen/algae off the wood bits on the gunwhales, not easy when the water pressure isn't great and next door is trying to antifoul his sailing boat
He was pretty good about it though
Anyway, I'm rambling again
TBC
Chine shine = Oxylic acid
 
 
 
 
 

Slow pitch jigging trip hosted by @Odyssey, with @jonnyswamp , @daio web, @Saintly Fish, @JonC and I.
TLDR: Weather good, banter good, fishing good, propeller not so good (it broke).
Species tally: pollack, cod, coalfish, cuckoo wrasse, launce, greater weever and a massive starfish, all taken on jigs.

Caught today 7lb 7oz Silver Bar on Ragworm, gut hooked unfortunately and faffed and about too much unhooking it to put it back which was a shame, will be eaten in honour🎣

The pot needs worms for sure 🤣

That's an arse Luke!! the BOAT analogy is out of date, a grand wont get you far these days......

The pot needs worms for sure 🤣

The pot needs worms for sure 🤣