Popular Post GPSguru Posted October 4, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 4, 2022 (edited) Today was going to be a quick morning session as the sea was forecast to kick up rough at 11:00 (ish). The day didn’t start well as when I stopped at Tesco’s for fuel, I realized that my wallet was at home, so I guess that cost me a good 15 -20 mins. Finally go to the slip and launched at 08:00, which was 30 minutes later than I had planned. The real purpose of today was a shake down of the engine service to make sure everything is OK and to look at the engine parameters to reference against for the next 12 months. Once out of the harbour and into the navigation channel I checked the engine temp, oil pressure, water pressure, charging voltage, and also the responsiveness of the new trim pump to the active trim ……….. all was working just as it should. I decided to try a wreck that I haven’t fished for a couple of years that is about 10 miles out. I know that @fishybuisness sometime fishes it, as the wreck is more toward Torbay. A steady 25knts soon had me on the wreck, but then it took me a few minutes to sort out the panoptics, I guess the grease monkey’s had been playing ! I reset the depth to Auto and set the gain at 60% and soon had a good image of the wreck in 155ft. After several drifts with both a slow jig and shads, it was obvious that nobody was home. I moved onto a wreck that often gives me Autumn Bass and is about 11 miles out in 135ft. By this time (about 10:00) the sea is beginning kick up but just about OK to drift. A few drifts saw me catch 2 pout (one very big and one small) and 2 of the tiniest mackerel I have ever seen. They were smaller than the 150g jig but perfectly lip hooked, so I guess they were going for the shiny jig hooks and not the jig. At about 11:00 something quite strange happened. I had seen Dolphins on the way out to the wreck at about 8 miles and they joined me for a mile or so and then disappeared. I was fishing on the port side and I heard quite a splash behind me on the starboard side, I turned around just to see some water disturbance on the surface. I assumed it was probably the Dolphins, as we often see them on the wrecks. However, about 10 mins went by and all of a sudden a BFT breached right beside the boat on the port side. It was so close that it hit the line of the jigging rod and made me jump backwards. Not a huge BFT, about 6ft long so maybe 300lb, but he breached clean out of the water and took me by surprise, TBH I feck’in near shat myself and had to sit down for a cup of coffee ! By 11:45 the sea had really kicked up, and I was taking the odd wave over the stern (RIBS don’t have a splash well), which is OK as the pumps clear it quickly, and if the deck floods, then the twin 4 inch elephant trunks will empty at the rate of 38,000L per hour. I decided it was time to head back in. The sea was confused with 1.5m waves about every 3 secs, however, I managed a comfortable 22knts back to the slip. The total trip was 27nm, but very enjoyable indeed. At least it has proved that the winter species have not taken up residence on the wrecks yet, and also the Bass are late moving onto the wrecks before they head off to the spawning grounds in the western approaches. Sorry, no pics today ……… I would have been nice to snap a pic of the BFT, but it happened way too quickly. Edited October 4, 2022 by GPSguru suzook12, Dicky, Josh and 6 others 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 Glad all checked out ok with the post service run. Why on earth would grease monkeys be playing with your panoptix?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 An exciting report, even without pics! Well done 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 Great report @GPSguru 👍👍🌊 🚤 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted October 4, 2022 Author Share Posted October 4, 2022 4 hours ago, Saintly Fish said: Why on earth would grease monkeys be playing with your panoptix?? I can only assume, because it was OK when Kyle was using it on the skerries, a couple of weeks ago. The gain was very high 20% and the depth was set to about 10ft, so it was a very bright screen !. I have the gain and depth controls always displayed on the touch screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daio web Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 great report mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willyhookit Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 Time to get the wind-ons out and rigged up Ian what water pressure do you have while down in Fowey i had the chance to check mine on the DF140 since fitting the gauge ive only run the engine up on the Muffs and its about 2 psi at 800 rpm once out of the harbour i increased the revs to 4000 RPM and the gauge was reading 8 PSI ive been told the DF range of Suzuki Engines are a low water pressure Engine and the gauge only reads 15 PSI @ maximum so well happy at that Tight Lines Alain your going to be as close to a B F T as it gets without putting it on the deck should you hook one and bring it boat side Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted October 5, 2022 Author Share Posted October 5, 2022 1 hour ago, willyhookit said: Time to get the wind-ons out and rigged up Ian what water pressure do you have while down in Fowey i had the chance to check mine on the DF140 since fitting the gauge ive only run the engine up on the Muffs and its about 2 psi at 800 rpm once out of the harbour i increased the revs to 4000 RPM and the gauge was reading 8 PSI ive been told the DF range of Suzuki Engines are a low water pressure Engine and the gauge only reads 15 PSI @ maximum so well happy at that Tight Lines Alain your going to be as close to a B F T as it gets without putting it on the deck should you hook one and bring it boat side Hi Alain, With the Merc 150 the water pressure is 2psi on muffs, 11 psi on idle before the thermostat has opened, 7 psi on idle when the thermostat has opened fully, and 22 psi at 3000rpm. The max pressure is 35psi at WOT. With regard to the BFT, this autumn / winter my interest is more in finding big Pollock and also locating wrecks where there could be some decent Ling. Also, Kyle wants me to anchor over a wreck for some conger, but that is easy, because nearly all our wrecks here hold a decent head of slimy snakes, with 50lb fish being fairly common. Geoff, Josh and Andy135 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishybuisness Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 (edited) Great little trip out, ive been land locked because of work and other commitments for the last month. Nearly every trip out past the 12mile marker i see them. The last sighting was similar to yours, we were jigging away on a wreck with a few pollock and cod showing and this noise just made our heads turn and 20ft away clear out of the water was a monstrous barrel with the switch turned to rabbit speed! I dont know about you but i feel kind of lost holding a 100g jigging rod and as thin line as i can get away with when these girls are about. They kill the fishing on a wreck as well i have found going to have to book up on one of the chart boats just to tick the box Edited October 6, 2022 by fishybuisness GPSguru 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejollysinker Posted October 9, 2022 Share Posted October 9, 2022 that must have been an amazing sight Ian and yes, I bet it did make you jump! good to hear your equipment is performing well, nice report 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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