Popular Post mike farrants Posted October 9, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 9, 2023 with a forecast of 20 degrees and zero wind we had to take full advantage! Small tides was the only downside of the day. Met at Tims boat at 7am - plan was bait first then head the 7 miles offshore to the adamant bank. Was a glorious morning and there were plenty of mackerel found early on - with bait taken care of before the sunny was full up - (12 good sized mackerel) we switched to squid lures - only finding one cuttle which escaped at the surface! we soon pushed on to the adamant, anchored up in the slight tide, Tim fished 3 rods with big baits, I fished one big bait, one small squid baits and dangled the sabikis over the side hoping for some fresh launce. Tim was soon into a decent fish which gave a spirited fight on his 6-12lb class rod - 3 or 4 runs uptide we guessed Tope - and sure enough a decent tope of probably 20Lb - by the time he decided he wanted a pic - we didn't have time to get the net before it bit off the trace. Wasn't long before my feathers went slack - odd - turned out to be a Smoothound caught up in one of Tim's traces - I though he had hooked it and it got tanged but no - the smoothound had taken my sabikis and swam round his line - probably lucky as it didnt snap me off and we landed it! amazing to see a sabiki hook in a decent smoothie - we estimate 5lb. I thought id try a new weight from "C weights" where you attach the hook directly to the lead - apparantley pins the bait to the bottom - all it found were dogfish through........ nevermind. Tim had a few smaller tope to keep him busy the tide dropped right off and it all went quiet - the new tide took forever to turn us, and many tangles were had - at one point a Gurnard came to the boat in such a tangle we never found out who actually hooked it! once the new tide settled in the fishing picked up again - i had a nice spotty ray, and a few more dogs, tim had a few more small tope. nothing remarkable except for the weather - a stunning day to be out - we pulled anchor at 4pm! thejollysinker, Josh, Andy135 and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 Lovely pics of a lovely day. Well done and thanks for sharing. 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 Great report Mike well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejollysinker Posted October 9, 2023 Share Posted October 9, 2023 Nice one Mike 👌 I can’t seem to hook into a ray for love nor money where I am 🤷♂️ wouldn’t even know what a tope looks like 🤣 So nice to be out before the sun comes up 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 Sounds like a great day, fab photos too. Andy135 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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