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28 minutes ago, JonC said:

How about something like this? I’ve herd that they porpoise a bit but a jacking plate could solve that

Does being a twat come naturally, or do you have to work at it 🙄

2 minutes ago, Andy135 said:

This is helpful - thanks. Might swing the decision in favour of the Takacat with an open transom - e.g. nothing to fill up with water.

Depends which way it drifts !

My boat generally drifts bow first but at a 30 degrees angle to beam. If the wind gets up to F4 then it drifts beam to sea.

1 hour ago, Andy135 said:

Yes, but there's hardly anywhere sensible to launch from in Dartmouth. The public slip is right by the Higher Ferry and with nowhere to park and unload it makes unpacking, inflating and launching a challenge. Then there's Warfleet but that's only available over high water, and still nowhere to park.

At Torcross and Beesands there is plenty of parking and convenient access to the slip or the shore for launching.

During the summer we see a few honwave, small zodiacs, and excels out there, plus the odd yak or two. 
 

Both the boats you mention would be fine when motoring, but I am not convinced they would be good at drifting.

It is a sand / gravel bank with very deep water on the seaward side and sometimes quite strong currents, so the sea conditions tend to change very quickly. I have seen honwaves etc shipping water and fighting to get closer inshore.

21 minutes ago, Andy135 said:

Yes, but there's hardly anywhere sensible to launch from in Dartmouth. The public slip is right by the Higher Ferry and with nowhere to park and unload it makes unpacking, inflating and launching a challenge. Then there's Warfleet but that's only available over high water, and still nowhere to park.

At Torcross and Beesands there is plenty of parking and convenient access to the slip or the shore for launching.

True, but you can launch at dart marina and park you car. We have friends who have a riverside house in Kingswear with a pontoon, but it is actually quicker for me to go by boat from Teignmouth than drive to Dartmouth.

It is a 20 (ish) miles trip for me, so 40 - 50 mins depending on sea conditions. Start point is 25nm. 

33 minutes ago, Andy135 said:

Which is why I keep having dirty thoughts about a Takacat or F-Rib that I can keep down in Dartmouth and use to zip out to the Skerries. Only a few miles from Torcross or Beesands, which themselves are no more than a 30 mins drive from Dartmouth.

The skerries are only 4 miles from dartmouth !

12 minutes ago, Saintly Fish said:

Do you mind if @mike farrants borrows this excuse from you? He must be running out by now!!

He is probably just a miserable old git in training .

4 minutes ago, Andy135 said:

When's your big day? We'll find some other way to mark it then if not in person.

Thanks, but no thanks !
I am not big into birthdays and TBH  I would rather not be 70 (feck’in old) and certainly don't want to be reminded of it !

I will probably just go fishing for the day if the weather is in agreement.

6 minutes ago, Andy135 said:

, but I suppose you'll just have to make do with a high speed ride on your tickler and maybe a happy finish from a turbot.

True, and I will certainly be happy. There are a few decent Turbot showing, so I am sure we will catch. Dave Mord has been and had a few, but no real size to them.

pull’in your leg on the birthday thing (but I will turn 70 very soon) ,because as you know, being immunosuppressed makes mixing more difficult from my perspective. 

Last year I had a fish of 11lb, but I need to beat that this year. You guys knew about the skerries trip and the plaice ( this time last year) but not the turbot as I use AIS, and I have spent quite a bit of time locating the Turbot habitat !

1 hour ago, Andy135 said:

. Well done to @captin slows old outlaw for turning 70

Well, I am disappointed, As I turn 70 in a few days and nobody organised a charter trip for me 🙄🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

I guess I will just have to put up with a trip to the skerries again targeting Turbot and plaice 🤣

Just waiting for the easterly swell to abate to see if I can get a double like last year 👍

1 hour ago, JonC said:

@JDP  have you got a link to your channel? it sounds great. 

It is on the poster of JDP on your bedroom wall 🤣

3 hours ago, Saintly Fish said:

Who understands how to boost a personal you tube / TikTok account views? 
I know there are certain ways to do it, but the lingo and tech stuff is a bit above my head. Basically I'm trying to boost my sons online guitar videos, but it's a real slow process. I dont understand how some shit videos get infront of all the good content. 
Any help gratefully taken! 

Spamming the links everywhere on the internet seems to be successful for some folk.

But is the 'toobe ' the way forward ? , maybe tiktok might work better ?

1 hour ago, JonC said:

All yor big fish are imaginary, all I ever see you catching are 2lb pout 🤣

#waltermitty 

Fixed that for you Jon 🤣

4 hours ago, JonC said:

Sounds perfect for doing an engine change, my 20 is big enough. 

Well yeah, this reel is for big powerful fish that can take a lot of line, so no good to you when fishing for tiddlers, old shoes, and shopping trolley's in the Thames 😉

9 minutes ago, Saintly Fish said:

Yew used to bee nice! 🥺

Lefty multi’s are so alien to me, even though I am a lefty !

some of my family openly think being a lefty should be an automatic qualification for a blue badge, so I am used to having the piss taken.

2 minutes ago, Saintly Fish said:

Is it correctly handed? IE... left

No, I don't think you can get a spaz handled TLD 🙄🤣😇

Brand new TLD25 unboxed, but brand new and been sat on the reel shelf for  2 years.

Any interest ?

3 hours ago, Odyssey said:

Yeah, especially @Andy135 he’s loaded as he doesn’t have a boat to steal all his money 🤣

My 3 SPJ rods and narrow spool reels owe me the thick end of £2k, but I use them a lot and find it a very enjoyable method of fishing.
 

1 hour ago, Malc said:

I wanted to give it a whirl and had a 12-20 trigger rod and baitcaster. It worked OK but I didn't like the amount of foul hooked fish I got so I don't use them anymore. 

For me it is probably 1 in 10, and usually the smaller fish, especially Pollock under 3lb and pout.

Even the foul hooked fish are very often hooked in the head or under the chin.

Never had a foul hooked bass, they nearly swallow the lure.

4 hours ago, LostPiker said:

As I'm already £2k into a supposedly good engine I think I'll bypass the sensor and take it for a trial before I spend any more on it

Good plan, but remember to check the oil level every trip.

12 minutes ago, Andy135 said:

Honestly, about a minute. Have done it on a rocking boat and in the dark on the shore. All without a bobbin too.

Your minute is probably closer to 5 ! .......... to get 25 wraps will be at least 25 - 30 seconds

I always said I could tie a bobbin knot in 30 secs, but timed it was 2 mins.

I always said a Yucatan knot was quick, but timed it was a little over a minute.

Anyway, it matters little, the whole point is that we tie the knot that suits us best and a knot that each of us have confidence in.

5 hours ago, Saintly Fish said:

I struggle with the bobbin when it comes to going back across the first load of twists. It never seems to want to travel back the way I swear at it to. Is my tension too tight?

Look at the vid below from about 3:30 onwards, at 3:36 the guy uses a tad of tension to the tip of the bobbin with the index finger to ensure the bobbin reverses direction, which is exactly how I do it. Generally, I use my right hand for that to happen.

A PR bobbin knot can be tied in less than 2 minutes on the boat, how long does it take to tie a FG knot on a rocking boat ?

7 minutes ago, JonC said:

Well if yor spelling was better… tske?

Sausage fingers in my phone ! 👍🤣😇🤣

6 minutes ago, JonC said:

Vid ? 

‘Take a still’

or is your ability to read, not that good 🤣🤣🤣

35 minutes ago, JonC said:

What moosic will you put in the background? I’m thinking a bit of gangster rap? 

A still doesnt have music 🙄

That is why I am an engineer and you are a twat 🤣

39 minutes ago, Hoop said:

Here, here Jon. I think for the most part size etc is relative to lines used. Decent lines tend to knot better, give higher resistance to abrasion at lower diameters. 

Not a million miles away from the topic, I've heard recently of a theory regarding braided lines vibrating in tide and in turn spooking nearby feeding fish? 🤔 Some beach folk turning their backs to braid and fixed spools, going back to multis and mono.. wondered what the average boaty thought on this? 

I will never go back to mono, purely because of the stretch ( even co polymer is 12% ish). Bite detection and lure control is just so much better and easier with almost zero stretch braid.