Odyssey

Had Gary ( @thejollysinker) out for a trip yesterday. He was on holiday locally and dropped a line for a trip. By chance had space so he joined us for an expedition to the deeps. What an all round nice guy 🙂 was great to have him aboard! Sadly I didn’t find him a blue whiting for the species hunt was a fast drift, and a bit lumpy… (LOTS of pot holes and speed bumps in the sea on way out and back in again, but cat bashed her way through) Gary did manage one blue…. Took a while to get it in. I did learn some new colloquial phrases from Devon that apparently aren’t safe for social media… but I can’t blame him when this little smiler popped up next to the boat after a heavy 35 min scrap 🙂 Top work that man, expertly played, tagged and released… 🙂 Another 5 finished off the day nicely 🙂

We get quite a few, especially on the surf beaches. Inshore is very quiet at the moment, so maybe that is why we are picking more up 🤔

Need to recalibrate the compass, you basically drive round in a circle slowly while in calibration mode, have a look on YouTube it’s much quicker than the manual to understand! for the radar check the connection at the Radome and clean it up, they are prone to water ingress, msg need to quick clean ti getting it up a d running. if all else fails, I’ll give you a tenner for it 😉

Get the surfboard out in the meantime 😍

Sure have…. Its inshore of the stark grounds but I may have a spare weekend in the diary so may try a recce trip inshore to see if any others hiding out

You can apply for a small ships license here…. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/radio-equipment/online-licensing-service/ this will give you the MMSI number to allow DSC operation on your VHF. The RYA course is the VHF SRC. It’s a one day course with a simple exam at the end. It’ll take you through operating channels, pan pan vs mayday procedures and other useful information. That along with a Power Boat Level 2 gives you a good basic understanding of boating. A lot of centres do a deal if you look to complete both. At the very least read the RYA VHF handbook…. So you don’t end up saying “over and out” in real life 😉

Westher looking good for weekend 🙂 hopefully it holds for us all

Fingers crossed….. I’ve heard of the first sighting off St Ives by Sam yesterday. Im spooling up some reels this week so I’m ready to go once we get some sightings at our end…. Hopefully they show up this year in higher numbers…

He was contacted via VHF a number of times, in the end the navy had to go over to him and sort it out… so that was perhaps part of the prosecution costs… I’ve also seen recently that a Jet ski driver was also prosecuted recently under the updated Col regs where PWC are required to follow the Col regs…. Apparently he was was wake jumping in front of the Cowes ferry, in Cowes week forcing the ferry to take immediate evasive action…. 🫣🫣🫣🫣 Moral of the story….. read the rules folks, may save your life 🙂

Quick reminder as to why it’s important to remember the Collision Regulations, especially when you’re in an area with a TSS (traffic separation scheme). £25k must of stung a bit…. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/day-angling-skipper-fined-for-breaching-dover-strait-shipping-lane-rules#:~:text=The skipper and owner of,prosecution costs of £25%2C000.

Couple of pics from last few trips, usual stuff, pollack, sharks, wrasse etc 🙂 Numbers improving all the time. I’ll keep adding to this thread as I often can’t remember who caught what when but will keep it a rolling update… Numbers of scad around at the moment is insane… make a good bait so not all bad 🙂 Back out on sharks this weekend, then a weekend off followed by an empty boat for the weekend (17th and 18th August) if you fancy getting in on the action drop a line, nice tides for SPJ and sharking else I’ll just have to have a practice run for the tuna…

Totally agree…. I use the cheap stuff for general fishing but I use trusted (more expensive stuff) for the big fish trips.

Any of you experts can get large quantities of Hollowcore? Needs to be 100lb and I’m after 10,000m quantities….

Was a bit lumpy after the Saturday blow but managed to work around it and get some smiles on faces which us what it’s all about really 🙂 Best fisherman is the one having the most fun 🙂

Bit of mixed fishing this weekend. Managed Huss, conger, gurnard, ballan and cuckoo wrasse, cod, coalfish, dogfish, weever, mackeral, pouting, bass, launce and pollack. Loads of pollack on offshore reefs. Inshore was a bit slow, so much bait fish in the water I guess?

New chain to be fitted. She was having a tart up. We don’t do much anchoring down west it’s nearly all drift fishing.

Pirate road trip 🙂 🙂

He bought Celtic Wikdcat (used to be in Neyland) 2 years ago…. He took a winter to fit new engines and then wanted to sell the cougar…. Which took a while as was asking quite a bit. He then dropped the price a few times

Lots about this year. It’s been late starting so they’ll hopefully be around for a few more weeks at least as well

New gearbox instead…. 🫣 All back up and running now, but maybe a re-power over the winter months….

Great post!!

Eek…. That’s not good… fingers crossed it calms down for you 🙂 I love camping out on the boat overnight 🙂 even if the sound of the water sloshing against the hull really makes me want to pee 😂😂😂😂