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Well done Leo  .............. cracking fish ............👍

Looks like you guys had a great day ..................🎣

Tomorrow is not looking too good offshore for me and i don't want to go Mackerel fishing again, but Monday and especially Wednesday looks to be good wrecking weather (if it holds)

On 11/26/2020 at 4:14 PM, jonnyswamp said:

Bought a reel off Norm B from the other site and it turned up today

He described it as VGC

 

It wasn't, I am awaiting his reply

TBH, I would not have sold that Tat ........... I would have binned it ..............

The Torium is well known for its corrosion properties ! ...................but it was a strong reel in its day ..............

Yes, cracking boat Gary ............. and nice to see it back in after a long absence ...........

I see it pretty much every day, as it is moored just up stream of the slip ...............

3 hours ago, thejollysinker said:

t what speed though? I can manage 22 knots on a very good day ie. flat but most of the time I'm comfortable around 12-15.

At 15knts, then a little less than 1.5hrs ........... that is about the same time as the chartes take going form Exmouth ..............

15 hours ago, thejollysinker said:

Galicia it was... interesting to know about the Plaice (thanks for the tip 😉) been wondering where I could get some flatties around these parts 😊

There are several areas where you can catch a Plaice or two, but for quality and quantity, then you need to make a trip to the Skerries, which is only about 45 mins ........

3 hours ago, Saintly Fish said:

Well you may not have been overly impressed with the species Ian but I for one am dead jealous. I think I managed a total of 3 mackerel this season

I think it was more the fact that they were like piranhas on the bait, and there was a huge amount considering it is late November ............ this time of the year it is normally the pin whiting that are the bait thieves ................

I guess we are lucky in that I can catch Mackerel pretty much all year round, in the area of the Orestone and Babbacombe bay, As an example, if I was out just to get  bait then even in January / February, I would expect to catch probably 5 in an hour at one of the marks ...............

44 minutes ago, headlight said:

What is a Mackerel ???

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I am posting this just the pee off Luke @Odyssey and Ian @headlight , because i know they struggle with bait fishing off the welch coast !

Yesterday, I launched out of Teignmouth at about 8:00am, twas a cold morning with the air temp of about 6C .................

The plan was go to a 9 mile wreck, then onto a 12 mile wreck, and then return just after lunch, as i had the school run in the afternoon .............

The sea forecast was good with 0.5m @ 15secs, flattening to 0.3m @12 secs ...............

Once out of the Navigation channel , i was met with a very confused sea .......... the wind was F3/4 NE and the tidal stream was from the south, so we had a situation of wind over tide, that was further compounded by the wind chop from the NE (we are open to anything East).

I put the boat on the correct heading of 0.91 degrees true and opened the throttle to about 20knts, slightly bumpy but OK, however, there was an unthought about issue ......... the wind chop was the major sea and coming from the NE on my port bow ........ the hull spray rails were doing a good job, in fact too good, and about every third wave the spray was being picked up by the wind and giving me a good shower .......... OK in the summer, but not good in the winter with a 9 mile steam to do, and something you have to 'manage' in an open boat when winter fishing ............

So ........plan B ......... a quick turn of almost 180 degrees would put the sea on my port quarter / following sea and I could then head towards Torquay and the Orestone for some rough ground fishing ........... that works, and I am now progressing at 26knts toward the Orestone.

My route took me through the middle of the moored cruise ships in Babbacombe bay of which there are now 5 .............

Also, I had company for about 3 miles with a pod of 2 very young dolphins on my starboard bow, they were tiny, only about 2ft long and looking like mini Orca's with their white belly ...........

OK ....... once at the Orestone there were about 4 other boats fishing, and I knew three of them from my home port.............

I decided to drift and drop down a small squid on a 4/0 pennel .......... within a few minutes it was nodding and into the first fish, which was a medium sized bloody Mackerel 😲 ............ next drop produced the same, and so on ..................not even the whiting were getting on the baits, the Macks were like bloody piranha's .

So ....... i set up a string of Snowbiki's , baited the bottom two, and dropped down, but I just couldn't get to the bottom (60ft) ......... each time a full string of Mack .......... all sizes.

Eventually I did get a couple of decent Whiting of about 1.5lb each .................

Even when I had my coffee, I just dangled the snowbikis over the side and within a minute another full string of Mack, looking in the water I could see the mack coming up for them !

On the way back I decided to spend an hour on a patch of gravel and small reef about 300yards offshore where we get hounds, Plaice,  Rays, Gurnards, all sorts of stuff ............... but yes, you guessed it ........... full of Mackerel again ...............

So I ended up with a cool box and 2 buckets full of Mack for the bait freezer and another 15 Mack as eaters for the family .................I probably shook off as many as I kept, so possibly I had over 300 - 400 Mack in 3 hours or so ............ TBH, it was better than  Mack fishing in July !

Not a great day, but nice to be out on the boat .............. a round trip of 22Nm .............

Another full string !

Here is a forward scanning sonar of  a Mack shoal from when I stopped on the way back in less than 30ft of water ....... you can see the mack shoal 50 ft in front of the boat

18 hours ago, jonnyswamp said:

And there's me thinking you were better than the rest on here

I'm hurt 

Well yes, but it was funny the way you wrote it ............ made me chuckle, because it is exactly what my crew would do ...............

On 11/24/2020 at 9:58 AM, Andy135 said:

Finally managed to fit the new light last night. Not bad at all.

Great for when you are back on the mooring etc, but you may need to fit some subdued lighting under the gunnels for when you are fishing etc .............

1 hour ago, thejollysinker said:

You are correct sir, it was Peter 👍 but you are on the wrong wreck guess.... try another 😉

Well, the nearest wreck that is easy to anchor would be the Galicia, which is a wreck I rarely fish, other than to drift alongside it for Plaice in the summer ............

Also, you might have been to the Bretagne, but I doubt Peter would go that far in that direction ...............

1 hour ago, thejollysinker said:

Another boat is heading straight for me now and it looks like another Orkney, indeed it was. A chap from Exmouth had made his way over.

That would be Peter ............ he lives in Exeter but moors in the Exe .................... so I am guessing you were on the Boma ..........

1 hour ago, thejollysinker said:

hope you're doing well bud and still smashing those offshore wrecks

That was today's intention, but at first light I got out of the navigation channel to find the wind from the NE which is usually OK, but the sea was coming from due South, so the wind over tide made for a very choppy and confused head sea right on my port bow and @20 knts it was an uncomfortable and wet ride, so I turned south by 90 degrees and headed for the Orestone ..............which put the sea comfortably on my port quarter ...............

8 hours ago, thejollysinker said:

My name is Gary and I have an Orkney 590tt and am moored at The Polly Steps on the Teign.

Hi Gary, are you out today ? .......... I saw your boat was back on its mooring........... I will probably launch at about 8:30 ...........

2 hours ago, jonnyswamp said:

One of my crew threw my Blue Imax smock in the bin Sunday

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53 minutes ago, suzook12 said:

I own an inordinate amount of course rods with actions from bending through to the butt, through to extreme tip action and most points in between, so to generalise that "most" are a C curve would be a wild generalisation.

Is there such a thing as a UK boat rod? Arent the manufacturers international companies? Can the rods mentioned previously only be bought in the UK. I have found that my boat rods are like my coarse and beach rods in variation.....

Just sayin....

We have between us, gone somewhat off topic, the object was to find something Leo could cope with. I guess the only real answer is to go to a well stocked tackle shop and see how much he can put through it while someone hangs on to the top

Yeah your right, I was getting the boat ready and didn't explain myself very well 😇 ...... all of MY coarse rods are C curve ...... Greys specialist Avons and Century NG’s ....... I only fish for Carp , Barbel, Chub, and Tench ..... all on the French rivers.......

my point about UK boat rods is UK rod designations, it seems to be unique to us and wide open to interpretation. However, a great % are J (ish) curve and any of those rods taken beyond that point will be ‘locked out’ and pretty useless ........ to really learn about what rods ‘do’, I always encourage my crew to fish with a light tackle setup a few times .

5 hours ago, headlight said:

With IGFA ratings the rating is based on the amount of weight needed to bend the tip 90 degrees to the butt, I think.

Yes, correct. Most boat rods are J curve. Most coarse rods are C curve.

But yes, UK boat rods vary by a huge amount.

This is needed after reading the nice welcome banter here ..........https://www.offshoreoutlaws.co.uk/topic/344-hi-everyone-glad-to-be-joining-the-group/page/2/?tab=comments#comment-4358

On 10/16/2020 at 11:47 AM, suzook12 said:

here are other crimps for battery leads etc

Indeed, and anything of quality is mega expensive ............... however there is an alternative method

Use a bucket solder eye and fill the bucket end with molten solder, then carefully tin the prepared end of cable ........... slide the end of the cable into the molten solder bucket and wait for it to cool down ............ when cooled carefully pull a length of RayChem (glued heatshrink) over the joint and allow enough to extend about 70 - 100mm along the cable sheath, then shrink it into place ...............

3 minutes ago, JonC said:

Rrps are funny things, Fisty gave me a link for a replacement kitchen tap, he was giving me free advice I hope. The link listed it at £350, first search on google found it for £160 ish. 

True, perhaps I shouldn't tell you this, but most fishing gear is based on a 45% Margin and that is before any quantity discounts are taken into account ........... it is not difficult to achieve a 60 - 70% Margin by careful buying and paying the bills on time .............

20 minutes ago, Saintly Fish said:

I bought a beach rod for 50% rrp because the shop owner left his catalogue open on the counter and I spotted what it cost him to buy. He paid £100 and sold at £300.

That is  a bit greedy ............. the retail on that rod should have been 225 -250

On 10/21/2020 at 2:38 PM, Andy135 said:

Just to add to @suzook12's post on Electrical tools, you really do get what you pay for. I've had two different crimpers at the cheap end of the spectrum and both times they've started to bend out of shape at the hinge pin when crimping firmly. On one of them the jaws started to open up so that they would never meet properly when closed. Buyer beware!

Mine are from RS Components (used to be Radiospares) and are the best part of 40 years old ............. still going strong .............

In the past, I have always used Diawa Kenzaki braid rods ..............but .............. over the last 2 years I have been using Tronixpro 8.5 - 15lb Aphex rods. These rods are light and have a very sporting tip action, but also enough grunt in the butt to deal with big fish. A few of the local boats use them and all moaned at me when Tronix stopped making them earlier this year ............ the truth behind that is a brand name clash with the word Aphex ...........Tronixpro are having these rods made on the same blanks under a different name and will be available in the spring as an HTO product ...............

For my heavy boat rods .......... 30-50 & 50-80 I use Shimano ......................and my new rods for next year's Tuna Shark fishing will be Shimano Tiagra ............

With boat rods it is more about personal preference and the feel of the rod ...................... as an example I find the Ugly stick to be more like pokers ..................

Yes, hopefully I will be out on Thursday  morning ......... no crew so billy nomates will be on his own 🙄

Sea state forecast is marginal, but hope to get to the wrecks.

2 hours ago, Josh said:

First trip out the mouth of the west side

after the last trip being improvised becuase of a bung plug situation.

newly done we headed out this Sunday out the needles

a First for me and a little nervy. was grateful to have a quicksilver  gunning its way behind then past me to steam through which gave me added confidence as the swell was quite up going through there. Which I did fail to account for with the previous days wind. 
 

anyway once we were through we anchored up knowing there wasn’t much tide left before slack then instantly into congers and then when we finally went slack we upped anchor and moved a little further west for the flood and continued with congers all day great sport best going 34lb. Live pouting or flappers as the ground was littered with them.

All in all a great day out came in the Solent to try for a cod for the last hour but not to be ! Always next time.

Well done Josh, some decent fish there , but congers are not fish .............. they are the spawn of satin !