Popular Post mike farrants Posted September 6 Popular Post Share Posted September 6 Met Tim at his boat at the usual 7.30am - off the pontoon before 8am. plans had to change due the fresh easterly as it was lumpier than expected - we went to Portlands 1st entrance in search of fresh mackerel and to try for the squid - seeing as id had some off the pier. wasnt long before we hit a shoal of scad, and as I was dealing with my scad tim spotted my squid rod going so pulled in a squid for me, few mackies on the next drift and my squid rod went again - this time a Cuttle that I lost on the surface. Tim literally mentioned we'd never had a cuttle on his boat as his rod went.... cuttle again - he managed to get the cuttle in the boat - happy days. I also manged a lovely Tub: due to the wind we chose to spend more time than usual gathering bait and ended up with 4 cuttle 2 each - (and 2 more lost on the surface), we had a squid each, a few scad, one Tub, and a bucket load of mackerel. the wind stayed up and time was pushing on so we decided to drift a couple of inshore wrecks & reefs the other side of the bay in the lee of the coast which produced a few pout to keep us entertained. not long into the afternoon the forecasted storms started to roll in from the channel - and once we saw flashes of lightening we called it a day around 2pm. soaking wet we split the proceeds - half the mackerel each and I took the cuttle for the bait freezer - Tim took the squid for his. not quite the plan, but nice to fill the bait freezer! Dicky, Andy135, Saintly Fish and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 Mmmm, tasty creatures 😋 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyswamp Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 You both got yourselves a few quids worth of bait if nothing else 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejollysinker Posted September 7 Share Posted September 7 Well done Mike, wise decision to head in….just as we were anchoring up on the Lulworth banks. We got the forecast wrong and suffered the consequences sitting under the storm with lightning all around, a total white out and the worst soaking I’ve ever had 🤣 still we bagged some keeper bream and a couple of good congers whilst we enjoyed the best of British summers/first day of autumn….an interesting trip to say the least 😬 Andy135 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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