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Excellent report and a stunning looking fish for the boy, top marks to him for bringing it in 🦾

Well Leo did. It’s all I’ve heard since getting home. 😩

Yes, but it is those sort of days at a young age that makes them a fisherman for life, and something that they will always remember ............. also dad is the hero 😉

Well done Leo  .............. cracking fish ............👍
Looks like you guys had a great day ..................🎣
 

The alarm was set for 05.00, and in true excited school boy fashion I was up at 04.56. Coffee and mini weetabix then time to wake the boy. We had a date with @Andy135and his son Thomas. At half past silly o’clock Leo and I were on the boat getting things organised. 07.10 the others arrived and off we set...

The weather was perfect, NNW 6mph breeze onto a flat calm solent. As we prepared to turn to starboard and west to the mark, we were greeted by nearly a super moon. Well at the least a great sunrise..

The destination was West Lepe bouy and the quarry was cod. Yes I know... hopeful to the last.
The session started well with Andy into a ........... wait for it........ can you guess......??
Yep a dog fish. I think a couple were had by the boys who quickly claimed to be “in the lead”. Catch up time. 
Well that didn’t happen🙄....
Leo proceeded to go and catch the fish of the day.... At first we thought he was snagged to the bottom, but after I gave it some constant leverage the thing moved. Back the rod goes to Leo to wind it up the rest of the way. And what a job he did...

Expert rodmanship soon saw Andy spring into action with the net,
 
 

He had done it, a superb 15lb undulate ray was his reward. And how chuffed was he..

His first ever ray and his biggest fish to date. Good lad. 
Next catch was up to Andy, and what a complete surprise this one was, you can make your own judgements on wether this was skill or not. (IM SAYING NOT). 

This was a first to see for all of us. An Anemone had swallowed Andys lead weight whole. No wonder that was the end to the fishing. If the anemones prefer lead to fish baits, what chance did we have of catching fish? 
None was about right. I think we had another couple of dogs, a couple of whiting and a pout.
Still you can’t have it all, a cracking days weather 

And the chance to catch up on your social media!

Thanks for the company Andy and Thomas, my ears have just stopped ringing. Next time though quiet=fish.
 

Great report, I had similar regarding a good bite and then losing it, but mine was defo a double figure Cod
Not a double figure Bass, which yours undoubtedly was 😄👍

John nakedness would never work here  it was definitely financial inducements that worked, why else would I come to just exchange insults 👍

There are some knowledgeable people on here and then there's the rest of us, clueless but up for a bit of craic

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
 

 
 
 
 
 

His full name is Norman Berry he used to be the owner/editor/producer of a free sea fishing rag called "Sea Angling News" distributed through tackle shops.
He is also apparently a freelance reviewer of fishing tackle,  I think he needs to purchase some glasses (should have gone to specsavers)
 
Go nail him or his reputation

Oh the shame! 🤣
Bad luck Sinker. Fingers crossed the fix goes smoothly. I'm sure you'll see the light soon enough and get rid, but until then we're all here to offer moral support... and we may also point and laugh a bit 🤣👍

's not funny, it's embarrassing 😶😂
piggyback home, suspected fuel pump failure (driving over the speed humps too fast ❓) who knows... put a new heater plug loom in which was needed but not the problem...
should be a cheap fix though.... just another of my afternoons spent shouting profanities at the 'pile of shit' (that's its nickname 😅) with the neighbours cowering.... god knows what they think of me but they still speak to me 🤷‍♂️
there it is folks, love 'em or hate 'em 

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

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 ...............
 

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
 
 

Aren’t mackerel unicorn fish? 
 
I had 1 this year..... 
mover a hundred sharks, one mackerel 🤔😬

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
 

 
 
 
 
 

What is a Mackerel ???

It certainly is Andy ...... so much so, that I used to commute by train 4 days a week to London  for 15 years ...............glad to be retired now !
The run down to the Skerries passes some stunning coastline.
Apart from Plaice by the bucket load, there are a number of species on the Banks ............

 

2019 Ribcraft professional offshore (19ft)

This is a pic from the factory sea trials at Portland
 


On our way down to the Skerries banks (45Nm round trip) ............

 

This February this year, fishing on the 12 mile wrecks, quite cold , i think about 3C, which is rare for us in the English Riviera

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
 

 
 
 
 
 

Until it breaks.... 😉

Touch wood, my 57 reg LR Sport 3.6TDV8 is a super vehicle, and in my opinion one of the best tow vehicles around. Geoff. ☺️

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 .............

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