GPSguru

Hoping to get out tomorrow, but I will be solo as Kyle is ill ( has developed UC the same as me). Boat hasn't moved for 3 months (last time out was Jan 15th ) mainly due to the weather, but I have also been fitting a new kitchen that turned into a bigger job ( had to take the walls back to brick and remove the ceiling) and also have had a nightmare with my disco sport ( fuel pump failure, 6 to 9 months for a new part, but LR are now seeing sense and hopefully will sort me out with a loan car next week. Just getting the boat ready, both batteries are fine and it started on the button. Just the rods to load and top up the tubes. I wont be going far tomorrow, maybe try for a few fresh mack and give the inshore wrecks a drift or two.

Getting some decent weather to go out would help. Last time we were out was 15th Jan ! This year we are looking for a 30lb blond, a 20lb Turbot, and a 20lb + Pollock.

Thresher - easy(ish) Mako - very, very unlikely 6 Gill - unlikely but possible as an accidental catch, a very deep water fish. Grand BFT - very possible, my biggest is 109.5” so 800 ish. 200lb Blue - yes I reckon that is well on the cards 400lb plus porgie - again, definitely possible. I have physically seen 600lb plus fish patrolling the wrecks.

Prawn is my go to bait as it tends to find the bigger fish. The worm vs fish bait is a choice between an endless string of weevers, dragonets, and tiny gurnards, or hooking the occasional doggy, and believe me, the latter is a better option.

We catch a lot of Plaice, but of course, that is what the Skerries are famous for, however, we also catch them closer to home at less than a mile from the slip. I guess point one is that I rarely use worm for plaice (worm attracts too many small fish of other species), my goto baits are cocktails of mack strip tipped with squid, or frozen king prawn (Morrisons), tipped with squid. Although you can catch them at anchor, on the drift is by far the most productive, the drift speed ideally should be 1 - 2 knts Rig wise, I dont use spreaders, the rig is a simple running ledger on a zip slider with a hook length of about 12" to 18". Not too much bling, maybe 6 - 10 beads, sometimes green / Black, sometimes Red/Yellow, just depends on what I lay my hands on first ! The hook length is 20lb fluoro, and the hook is usually a 1/0 Sakuma 550 or 560. I loop connect the hook length to the link swivel, as deep hooked fish can often be unhooked by passing the hook out through the gills. Although the MLS is 27cm, we rarely keep anything under 35cm.

I use them, nasty finger removing things ! we mount them in plastic soil pipe, so the only way out is over the trap. got some mk6 rabbit traps as well, they work really well on the f’off big adult female rats.

Oh dear 🙄🤣

Are you sure about the width, I have jigs to 400g and none of them are that wide Just checked a couple of 250's and one is 35mm wide and the other is 43mm wide, length wise they are both 140mm ish The Catch Boss is a wide jig, but IIRC they only make them to 150g

Whatever happened to Bruce, he seems to have disappeared off the planet .

That is because sea water, sand, and stainless hydraulic rams are not a loving combo !

You have to use the same cable as the original, which will be dependent on the transducer. One of mine is a 12 core cable, and the other an 8

Certainly not the amount of bling that you would you for Plaice ! I usually use a couple of small lumi beads above the hook, and a small metal attractor blade just to give it the flash that attracts the Turbots attention. Most Turbot inline spoons are really quite large, which is a pain in a strong tide flow.

I would be looking for a reasonably fast tide that is flowing over a bank, and then fish on the bank slope where the Turbot will wait for the food to be brought to them by the tide. If launce are in evidence, all the better as that is their favourite food, we even cut long Mack and/or squid strips to look like launce. The best substrate is a sand gravel mix, i.e. extremely coarse sand, almost gravel. Another place you will often find Turbot in hiding in the scour of a wreck, so again, a reasonable fast tide area where food will be brought to them with very little effort on their part. However, scours are notoriously difficult to fish on the drift. Rig wise, a simple running ledger, using a watch lead to create maximum sand disturbance, and a 3ft flowing trace with a bit of bling. I have tried spoons but cannot detect any difference in the catch rate. Smaller Turbot are quite willing feeders (3lb - 5lb) but the larger fish are a fair bit more fussy and everything needs to be just right. My biggest is 13lb, however, I fish an area where a 30lb fish is more than a possibility. I don't normally post pics of Turbo's as it quite often easily gives the location away 🙄 Here is Kyle with a 5lb plus fish, this was May 2020, I moved the boat by a couple of miles to take the pic ................

Yes, the Corel software used to be Ulead video studio which has been around for almost 20 years, and Corel didn't feck it up when they bought it which is a bonus. I assume you are shooting in 4k30 and then outputting in 1080p ( vid studio does that automatically). Another editing suite to have is Davinci Resolve (free version) by Black Magic design, this is used by professionals worldwide and can quickly do stuff that Corel struggles with. Have you had any over heating, or turn off issues with your GoPro11 yet ? I am now using a DJI Action 4 camera and still learning its foibles. The quality of the standard video is excellent, but I might try out the D-log 10 bit function and then bring in the colour profile with LUTS (Look up Tables) when doing the edit. Doing it that way, if you wanted, you could make the English Channel look like the Caribbean !

True, but most gin palaces and rag n sticks, seem to be deaf as well as blind, because they ignore that as well 🙄

Hurds deep is similar, been there at least six times over the last few years and never caught much to speak of 🤷‍♂️

Indeed we are, but at least 90% of us use a standard RH multi and a standard LH FS, only real special anglers use a LH multi, which is a very strange experience 🤪

I chose to ignore it 🤣🙄😇😇😇

By cheap, buy twice 🙄🤣😇

You have just failed your coastal skipper exam 🙄🤣

No, ball is for ‘at anchor’ ideally you should raise ‘inverted triangles’, which is the international ID for fishing, and if you have AIS class A, then change the status to fishing.

I thought the LH model was a 'special' build 😛

The Shimano Stella 4000 is a decent reel that will stand the test of time, also they are on offer at the moment, https://www.veals.co.uk/product/shimano-stella-sw-4000-xg-c/

Did the reel come with an ‘I am special’ badge🤪

Thats fine, most normal people use a FS with a left handle, it is only those with strange brain deficiencies that use a multi with a left handle 🤪 spinning rods are ok for SPJ, but they are too long and awkward for using over an extended period, but short sessions are well ok. 👍