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No Dicky, we haven't seen any since late Jan, which is quite unusual. On the second wreck we did see one big fish on the panoptix and I assumed it was a porgie patrolling the wreck.

Or maybe a Bull huss double ?

On the inshore wrecks I would normally expect to catch half a dozen low doubles per year. The normal stamp of fish is 5lb ish. The offshore wrecks (20 miles +) generally produce a couple of low / mid doubles on every trip. The stamp of fish on these wrecks is 7lb +

The weather was looking good for a trip to the inshore wrecks, so we launched at 8:00am and pushed out to the first wreck at 11 miles. A very decent sea allowed us to travel at a comfortable 28knts. The crew for the day was my wife and Kyle, the idea was to fish 3 wrecks to see if there is any improvement in the fish population from a couple of weeks ago. At 6 miles we picked up a small amount of wind swell and the sea was confused but still very much OK. I was in no rush today, so we stopped on top of the wreck and I set the rods up, which allowed me to see the drift line. The drift was 0.4knt on a flooding tide, so almost perfect for drifting the wreck. Kyle went for a 3 string of 4/0 Gummi Makks in Red with luminous tips, the wife went with a 5 string of tinsels on size 6 hooks, and I was using both a tube boom rig with Blue/White Red Gills and a 230g knife slow jig on the other rod. We were into pout on the first drop, and I immediately noticed the quality of Pout was much larger than we had previously seen. There was a shoal sitting on top of the wreck at mid water (the wreck is in 150ft), we were soon to discover it was a shoal of huge Scad, most of which were easily 2lb+, with many pushing 3lb We fished for about an hour, continually hooking large pout and scad, then we were joined by Matt Forrester with Silver Halo. Matt's crew were also catching plenty of Pout and not much else. Matt left after 45 mins and good few drifts. The direction he was heading told me that he was going to a line of 4 wrecks at 25 miles. We stayed until mid flood and then pushed on to the next wreck, which is an old clay boat in 150ft and almost exactly 12 miles out. First drift and Kyle was into what looked like a good Pollock, but was 3 Pollock all of about 3lb each and one of the then was hooked in the dorsal fin, so it took him a while to land those. Again, there was a Shoal of king sized Scad on top of the wreck that were grabbing the lures on the drop. For the last 90min of the flood, the Pollock came thick and fast in sizes ranging from 3lb up, with the best going 6lb. All of us brought them up quite slowly, which allowed us just to keep a few for the table and release a good many. At the top of the flood, bites dried up (apart from the Pout) and the wind swung to the South, which I knew would give a nasty chop from wind over tide. We stayed for an hour into the ebb, still catching fish on each drift, until it got uncomfortable in a 1.5m short beam sea. The trip back was uneventful, and we had quite a comfortable ride at 20knts with the 1.5m swell on the port quarter. Lost count of the fish, but I guess 30 – 50 Scad, probably the same number of Pout, and exactly 15 Pollock, of which we kept 5. A trip of 30Nm, with some decent fishing, all in all a good day to be out there. Not many pictures as most of my time is spent looking after the boat, mending the drift, and fishing.

That face says it all 🤣🤣🤣🤣. TBF mackerel are not the nicest fis to hold. Top dangling Mike 👍

Looks like a good trip, and a shame that Neil never got to see what snapped him up. Always good to see the kids fishing, and such a shame about Thomas. @Andy135, next time, get Thomas to the stern of the boat and tell him to look past the cabin at the horizon, make sure he is standing up when you do it. He needs to have the horizon and part of the boat in his line of vision. What that does, is to balance the inner ear and eyes to the brain, which then stops you feeling unwell and being sick. I guess he was sick through looking at the water and not lifting his eyes to the horizon every now and again. The eyes were telling the brain one picture, and the inner ear (from the boat movement) was telling the brain a different story, once that happens the brain thinks you are ill, and you start being sick and feeling unwell. Did you fillet the gurnard or skin it by pulling it inside out ?

You definitely need to fit a trip !

I guess it is all about the balance between risk and benefit, only you can make that decision swampy. I wish you well, whichever way it goes.

Luke, I will give you a bell from time to time to keep tabs, but fully understand the reasoning ..............

Well yes, it probably does if YOU keep stealing them . That sort of activity is completely alien to me, not something I would even think of doing. 😇

No, she bought them through a supplier for me. Those in normal use are unsuitable . Also, I said ‘medical profession’ of which there are many that are not government funded. Can you read and inwardly digest or do you still need feck’in numpty pictures 🙄 So on yer bike johnny 🖕😂😂😂😂

My daughter is in the medical profession and got some for me which have been ok with measuring solvent liquids.

Torquay marina, Dicky

No, not out today. I tend to avoid weekends as the slip is often full of numpties and jet skis !, but I may go out tomorrow or Tuesday. Loki vids ?

1.6ml of quickstor per Litre of petrol 👍 I use a 100ml plastic syringe calibrated in 1 mL increments.

That doesn't surprise me, tactical move by the organisers 😉

Go in there and demand 2 for the price of one so that you can treat your fuel for the same price as their Ad 👍

Whoops, corrected.

You got the wrong info ! Quickstor dosage is 1oz / 5us gal The metric dosage is 1.6ml / L It is clearly written on the bottle that it treats 60us gal / 227L here is a link to the mercury info https://embed.widencdn.net/pdf/plus/mercurymarine/bhxfa7yhgc/8M0049811_MC_123-EXT.pdf

@Andy135, there are a couple of proper members on here that are behaving like they are both embedded in scunthorpe, Their actions are causing unnecessary alarm and distress to dry stack users, which in turn also causes unwanted stress in these difficult times. Both of these individuals should know better and I hope they are deeply ashamed of their actions, Having said the above, I think that in storm conditions a boat on a dry stack is probably the safer alternative, as having a boat on a pontoon continually being bounced into the pontoon by the action on the wind and at risk of broken chaffed ropes and maybe collision from a another boat that maybe broke its mooring, is probably a vastly greater worry, I think this pair of errants, owe you a profound apology. 😎😇😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Looks like a bream, but I think it is a lighter coloured Tautog, they are a member of the Wrasse family and put up a good fight.

Well, if you consider that most trim tilt systems have a 20A fuse and most up/down relays are rated to 35A, then I guess the circuit breaker is probably 30 - 40 A. Bi-Mettalic breakers act like a slow fuse with a timed reset. See above

Welcome Leon, it will be great to see some of the club photos 👍

Looks like the motor is part number 69W-43880-01-00, used from 1995 -2003 on the 40 - 100 models You can get a Chinese copy on ebay for about £85, but most others seem to be around £150 - £200 which is similar to your quote. The Circuit Breaker is part number 69W-82181-00-00 and looks to be about 105USD ......... I can find plenty for sale in the USA but most are quoting it as only genuine factory part availability, so I guess your quote of Jap stock is on the money .............

It usually is ! Also, the headland around Hopes Nose gets very confused, even on a good day it can be like a washing machine !