Popular Post mike farrants Posted August 9, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 9, 2021 I had friends coming to stay for a week and while he loves to fish his step son is squeemish but keen - so I took thursday and friday off to give myself a nice long weekend to get out fishing with them - however the weather looked terrible - 20-25mph winds with 30mph+ gusts from the west and SW. and prolonged heavy rain thrown in too. Thursday afternoon we went for a sheltered shore session at Newtons cove - we got into the wrasse - with a number of Corkies and ballans Friday night we did a night session also at Newtons cove and had Pout after pout - (double shots too) also saw a decent eel chasing in one of the hooked the pout.... but sadly nothing bigger. Saturday the rain cleared and the wind seemed to ease up a bit, so we ventured out on the boat for mackerel - hoping the lee of the land would offer shelter from the fresh SWs. as it happened the wind kept us on the fish..... we drifted nicely under the shelter of Portland harbour wall, and at 0.5-0.8mph covered a fair bit of ground at a nice speed finding the fish was hard - the sounder was showing lots of fish but we weren't getting any - we were however foul hooking pin whiting, and it wasn't long before it dawned on us that this was what was showing on the sounder, however - where there are bait fish, there will be bigger fish - perseverance paid off and not long until the first mackerel started hitting..... find the bait fish - find the mackerel. Not many, but some absolute monsters.... one went over 1lb over the course of 5 or so drifts, over a few hours, we managed 9 mackerel between us, and I bagged a Tub Gurnard - very happy to have dinner, fresh bait and to of been able to show the guys a tub gurnard - we called it a day to be treated to a lovely sunset on the way back in. pics below 1lb+ beast on a standard size chopping board! first time holding a fish! - very keen to eat it later too! My Tub Gurnard Treated to a lovely sunset on the way back in....... Last night we hit the stone pier for a bit of night fishing and only managed Pout - except for the teenager who bagged a Scorpion fish and was delighted! writing this from work pains me as the wind has died and the sun is out.....typical all in all we made the best of the bad weather - the young lad had a great time and first Pout, first mackerel, first whiting, first Scorpion fish! - and us grown ups had a great time and added to our tally - Hoping to get out Tuesday evening to anchor up for something bigger! Andy135, Davemc, jonnyswamp and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 Excellent write up! Top hosting too. Sounds like you may have converted the lad into a budding angler. Well done! Did you get a pic of the scorpion fish? Keen to see it if so. 👍 Saintly Fish 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted August 9, 2021 Share Posted August 9, 2021 Well done Mike. Another great write up. Thanks! 👍🏻 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike farrants Posted August 9, 2021 Author Share Posted August 9, 2021 1 hour ago, Andy135 said: Did you get a pic of the scorpion fish? Keen to see it if so. 👍 He did, I didn't - but it looked the same as my one from the other day - may of actually been the same one!! i'll see if i can get the pic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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