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Today's challenge for the technical admin is to write a script that ensure photos are correctly orientated when posting from an Iphone .............it must be something about the way apple pictures are formatted because I have had the same thing happen when transferring for iphone 11pro max to a PC ............

I knew David and it was a sad loss, in more recent times the skipper of the Madeline May out of Falmouth ............ David passed from prostate cancer in 2018 .......... His website for the Madeline May still lives on ..................http://www.cornishsharkfishing.co.uk/about-us/

Since I retired almost 10 years ago the medics have found that I have a hyper active immune system, which caused my colitis. But a side effect is that it makes me highly resistant to antibiotics, so they give me steroids to slow down the immune response. I would love to be fishing tomorrow, but it would unfair on my grandson kyle if I was taken ill. At 14 years old he is almost 6ft tall and has a very old and wise head on young shoulders, but a big ask to look after the boat and me !

The first weather window for weeks, and I am grounded ..............🥵 I was hoping to be out tomorrow, but I am nursing a pretty bad UTI, which I tend to get about every 18 months ............... Being on strong antibiotics and Corticosteroids, also running a temperature of 39.4c tonight, the wife has dissuaded me from fishing tomorrow .......... however next Friday and Saturday look like a good weather window .............

That looks a nice setup Spence ................ In France, in most places, 4 rods are allowed ...................... I use 4 x Century NG SU with 60mm butt rings, all matched with Shimano Ultregra 5500 XSB's with bait runner spools, Delkim TXi Plus alarms with LED bobbins, and a full stainless rod Pod ..............................also in France on the rivers, you are not allowed to night fish from the shore (you are allowed one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise), it is actively policed, but there are ways around it by using a punt anchored less than a metre off the bank !, although that is frowned upon ..............

Hmm ......... your list is not complete Spence ................. The short finned Mako Shark, (better known as the Mako skark, is closely related to the porbeagle and can lift its body temperature to higher than the water it is swimming in. I have caught Mako's (NOT in thUK) and they are nasty unpredictable barstewards (a bit like a few on here 🤣🤣🤣) .............. so I reckon they are related to Congers !!!!!!

Only in France, never, ever, never in the UK ! ............. does @iowspence still fish for mudpigs ?

Nah Andy ............. fly fishing is something that has never appealed to me ....................and I have at least 2 Fly lakes right on my doorstep ............... My fishing is pretty much just boat fishing in the UK, with maybe an estuary shore session probably once or twice a year ............ In France (we go there for 3 weeks at time under more normal circumstance) I tend to fish the rivers, mainly for Carp, but you also get the enviable Catfish. I can assure that a near 50lb River common Carp really pulls your string ..................I reckon maybe another 12 months before I can do that again ................

The Green or Luminous gummi makks (they look yellow) , baited with a side of mack works .................. we use the Red Gummi Makks for Pollock and never get Ling, just lot of decent Pollock and shed loads of Pout (spinners). You need to rig your own gummi makks as the pre-rigged sets don't have heavy enough traces to avoid a bite off from the ling .............. Funny incident last season .......... my wife is not keen on fishing Red Gills or shads , as it is too much like hard work, so she always fishes Red 6/0 Gummi makks on a string of three .............. it was fun watching her struggle with what she thought was a whopper ........... on the string was a 18lb Pollock, a 14lb Pollock, and a large pout ! ....... I told her it was extreme fluff chucking !

I would think that there will be Cod on the deep water wrecks out of Milford .......................... you need to practise bouncing a shad close to the wreck.............

No, they are a standard Pirk jig and feck'in hard work in comparison to slow pitch jigging ................ a true slow jig is geometrically designed so that one side of the jig is much heavier than the other, this gives it a slow fluttering side to side motion as it free falls through the water column, very much like a leaf falling from a tree or a feather falling on a still day .................. the design also means that you can easily impart different actions to the jig and make it look like a fish darting from side to side.................

Bob Seger tonight, mainly because I don't feel great , I'm nursing a bad UTI ..............🤢🥵🥶

Steve Batchelor ..... he is a prominent member of the england boat fishing team ...... and yes, his SS fabrication skills are better than excellent. I doubt that you will find better ....

We normally find Ling in the deeper water, mainly on wrecks that are over 180 ft deep ............... They put up an excellent fight, but rarely can you return them as they 'blow' (barotrauma) easily. You can fish those wrecks all day with lures and never see a Ling (but get plenty of Pollock).......... put on some baited feathers or even just a baited hook (fillet of Mack) on a simple running ledger and you will soon find the Ling, they are always the first fish to the bait, even quicker than pout ............... you need a heavy trace as they have some serious teeth ...........an average fish is 15lb - 20lb, my biggest is 34lb ...............

That is exactly what I am thinking of doing for next season, using a MinnKota with i-pilot ............ I have used one on a quicksilver 590 and its station keeping over a wreck in 200ft was pretty impressive, with a max of about 1m drift ............... to deploy and hit the 'spot' was about 50 times quicker than dropping the pin ............ The rolls royce would be the auto deploy Ulterra model, but that is the thick end of £4k ................ the manual deploy models with I-pilot come out at about £1k -£1.5k All it needs is a battery stowed in the anchor locker and judging by a boat that has one her, you can get about 7 hours battery life in a modest wind and tide, which is plenty for most of us ...............

For those of us on the south coast, then real time wave info is a real help ............ it has about a 30min lag .............run by Plymouth marine university ........... https://www.channelcoast.org/ It can be a bit diffcut to navigate, but select realtime data and then select a site off the map............ Here is the realtime data in table format for Sandown Bay (IOW) and it will autoupdate about every 30mins ............ Here ...... https://www.channelcoast.org/realtimedata/?chart=80&tab=waves&range=day&disp_option=1&user_indate=&datum=chart

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Give it a go Neil ...... apart from the initial cost profile you have got nothing to lose. If it doesn't work out like you hoped then it is pretty easy to reverse back to where you are now with just a small dent in your wallet. However, it does damage easily so you will need to be mega careful when berthing an also when any boats pull along side.

There is a possibility of some settled weather next week as we head into some HP on Sunday through to Thursday, however, the current projected position of the HP centre will make it a marginal window at best ...............I'm itching to get out for some wreck Pollock etc ............

Farecla G3 or G6 , followed by a good boat wax ....................... Electric polishing is quick ............ 2 or us did one side of a Bavaria 36 yacht on a short tide window, then turned it on the high tide and did the other side on the next tide window ...........

The only bad thing I have heard about is that 'wrap' is very easily damaged, nowhere near as tough as Gel coat .............. Get stuck in there with an electric polisher, followed by a good quality wax ................ JonC will do it for you ..........🤣

Have you considered Satellite BB .............. there are not many ISP's and BigBlu was recently bought out , but most (not all) use HYLAS satellites (Avanti HYLAS 1) which are geo's but based around the 18th meridian (18 degrees west) so a much higher angle from your dish, which is handy if you live in a valley ............ just a thought Satellite BB is pretty much rock solid, you only lose it twice a year for an hour or so during the 'sun-out' period in spring and autumn ..........that is when the sun is directly behind the satellite in line with your dish ..............

It is the slow fluttering drop that does the trick ............. there isn't many fish that will turn their nose up at what looks like a free easy meal with no effort ............

Good plan ................. the G3 charts are not compatible with your 5 series units, I think this is to with processor speed and screen resolution............... Look here for compatibility ............ https://buy.garmin.com/en-GB/GB/p/662662#devices

Since 2017 Garmin owns Navionics, so all their charts since late 2017 are now based on Navionics ............ https://www.navionics.com/usa/blog/post/garmin-acquires-navionics