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    Torbay small boat sinks

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by GPSguru

    1 minute ago, thejollysinker said:

    It’s not Peter Cloke’s boat from exmouth is it?

    just going over things in my mind as I’m admin on Orkney Boat Owners UK and I met him in nov 2020 …. He has a Pilothouse 🤔

    Yes ...........Petrel (20ft Orkney Pilot House)

     

    I don't know who is unaccounted for, Peter, or his crewmate ?

    Torbay small boat sinks

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    Posted · Edited by GPSguru

    Small update.

    The search has been called off, as to whether anything was found, I know not.

    edit: cleaning the boat and just heard an ‘all ships’ on 16 for one person missing, LJ  unknown ☹️

    I do know the alarm was raised by 999 call ( according to the original  CG mayday relay) hence the mayday relay from the CG. However, I know that Peter has a radio and is comfortable using it as we have spoken many times. I have since heard the mayday was on 16, but I certainly never heard it 🤷‍♂️

    My guess will be that the divers will go down tomorrow ☹️

    45 mins ealier and I would have right there for him ☹️
     

    If you guys ever want to know where I am, just look up Bluefin on marine traffic, as the AIS is normally on. You should be able to see my today’s track. 👍

    Torbay small boat sinks

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    Posted · Edited by GPSguru

    2 hours ago, Andy135 said:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-65649193

    Clearly a difficult situation. Hoping it's not @thejollysinker or @GPSguru??

    No, we are ok, but it is a good friend of ours. The boat was a 20ft Orkney (80hp honda). I was too far away (15 miles + into a head sea) when I heard the CG mayday relay. If it had been 45 mins earlier I was 5 miles away mack fishing. It sunk very quickly, but I don't know any more detail. From the co-ords given by the CG, It went down on the wreck of the Glocliffe, about 10 miles out.
    At 4:00pm 2LB, 1 plane, 1 chopper, an Mod boat, and 4others were still searching for the missing crew. ☹️


    I’m devastated !

     

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    Skerries Banks 16th May

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    Posted · Edited by GPSguru

    What a difference a couple of days make !

    With Kyle at college, the crew for the day was my wife. TBH she is pretty damn good at the plaice and Mackerel, also it was to be her first trip of the year as she doesn't do winter fishing, or non sunny fishing, or temps below 15c fishing 🤣 , however, she does love to fish.

    We launched at 8:30am and the sea was reasonably flat

    I had to keep the speed down to an 'amble' as the wife likes to take in the scenery, and to be fair the journey along the south hams coastline is very scenic, so I 'ambled' along at a steady 25kts. On the banks there was a little wind over tide and being mid springs the drift was quite quick at about 1.8 to 2.1 kts. we did 4 very long drifts and only had 2 small plaice, which were returned to grow bigger. I am fairly sure that the May Bloom is to blame, as the sea claity was worse than poor, and on the steam down to the banks I noted large slicks of brown scum, which of course is dead algae. Also, we had no takers on the mackerel tinsels (apart from a small Gurnard), and as both Mackerel and Plaice are sight feeders the water clarity was not doing us any favours.

    At about 12:30 I put plan B into action, and set about dropping the anchor on the outer edge of the banks. Soon the boat had settled,  we sent down the big fish baits, and we needed 10oz of lead to hold bottom. Quite quickly the wife had a bite and hooked into a fish that didn't want to move, but with some effort she got it moving in the water column, however, disaster struck when the reel seat broke loose from the blank (Tronix Aphex 12-20), and it is not the first time it has happened on Aphex's. So, I lent a hand in carefully keeping tension on the braid with a gloved hand whilst she did her best to keep the reel seat from turning on the rod. Eventually a decent Blond surfaced and was quickly netted, going a respectable 14lb. The Aphex will go in the bin and be replaced with a Kenzaki super braid.

    Then we had a succession of dogs (5), and just before slack water I hooked into another ray. This time it was a juvenile blond at 7.5lb, but if you didn't know, it looked just like a spotty !

    All too soon it was time to get back, as we had other stuff to do late in the afternoon, but a gentle steam back saw us safely on the slip at 3:30pm.

    A pleasant day in the sunshine and the fish tally wasn't too bad, with 2 plaice, one Grey Gurnard, 5 dogs, and 2 blonds.

     

    A 14lb Blond

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    A 7.5lb Juvenile Blond, with the markings of a spotty including the wing eye's

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    Skerries Banks 14th May

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    9 hours ago, thejollysinker said:

    Wouldn’t have thought that Huss would be the order of the day on the banks but what do I know 🤷‍♂️🤣

    Well done on getting a mackerel 👌 didn’t you try Berry Head or Hope’s Nose?

    I think the Huss may be there as it is spider time, and they like crab.

    We decided to go straight down to the skerries, but the mack are obviously in, as on the way back hopes nose was rammed on the shoreline and there were a good few boats.

    Fresh mack would have been nice, but I had 10 frozen and a whole bunch of squid. The snakes that we caught made good bait.

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    Skerries Banks 14th May

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    Posted · Edited by GPSguru

    Sunday was a decent weather window and the forecast looked almost right, so Kyle and I made an early start off the slipway, launching at 07:15.

    We were treated to a flat sea, so a steady 28 - 30kt cruise soon ate up the miles, and we were on the skerries banks before 08:00. The visibility was only about 3 miles but plenty good enough.

    The Skerries were like glass when we got there, so plan A was put in to action, and we drifted for Plaice. Luck was on our side and by 11:00am we had 6 very decent Plaice in the coolbox.  Whilst drifting, I also tried for Mackerel, we only got one, but were also rewarded with 6 king size launce. Also, a small Grey Gurnard made an appearance.

    Slack was due to start at 11:30am, so plan B was put into action. I found a decent point on the outer edge of the banks, where I dropped anchor and the boat swung around so we were fishing the sloping edge bank into 90ft.

    As we were looking for Rays,  big fish baits were the order of the day, on wide gape 3/0 hooks as sometimes large plaice will show up.

    We immediately starting catching dogs, but at about 12:30 Kyle lifted into a decent fish, and after a decent fight in the tide a Blond ray was netted that went a tad over 17lb. More dogs and then at about 1:30 I was rewarded with a Huss that went 10lb 1oz (we will call it 10lb). Earlier after Kyle had the ray, I got bitten clean off at the hook(50lb mono trace) which was annoying.

    All too soon it was time to head back, as I need to be on the slip for 3:00pm

    Apart from the 8 dogs (Kyle 5, me 3) it was a very rewarding day.

     

    The stamp of the Plaice

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    17lb Blond

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    10lb Huss

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    Bloody nuisance fish !

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    Come on then... who's out at the weekend?

    in Boat angling techniques, baits and tackle

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    4 hours ago, jonnyswamp said:

    Do you find bead colour makes a difference, always used black/green out of Weymouth (matching the pea mussels they feed on in that area)

    And the couple of times I've fished the Skerries, used red/yellow. Both on advice of the skippers

    Also got told by the Brixham skipper we use that peeler tends to attract the bigger fish

    What's your preference ?

    Yes, peeler is reputed to be the best bait for the big plaice, but we have had a good number of 3lb + fish on prawn and launce.

    I always use black Green beads and a flounder spoon, Kyle doesn't use any and we both catch about the same 😉

     

    Come on then... who's out at the weekend?

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    48 minutes ago, mike farrants said:

    tight lines! turbo time? or plaice?

    Certainly Plaice, but Turbo and Rays will be dependent on the tidal stream, and I haven't studied it as yet. I think kyle wants me anchor at slack for an hour on the outer edge of the banks for big Blondes, hopefully we can get some fresh mack for that, however, if we get any snakes (launce) then I might go after the Turbo.

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