Bank holiday trip

[Josh]

Hi All

been a while, as there’s been nothing my end to report ha!

apart from 3 tow n backs from Kent to Cornwall and 4 days after the porgies in the spring, all with not the intended result. One good run that didn’t hook up but still. You gotta be in it to win it.

 

anyway Iv been trying to get out on more local ( but still a 2hr tow) ..the weather reads have been crap when Iv been free, and me and my mate Ash said even in the force 4 easterly read that we was concerned about for Monday we would do what we can and get out regardless.

well for starters the biggest win was the read was totally wrong and it was flat calm all day and we was in the water from

6am -8pm (sunburnt)

hunting around for bait fish a couple of stray mackerel came aboard to top up our frozen.

then we began drifting with worm on the banks for a bit till the tide was right for putting the anchor down for tope.

well no flatties on the drift and then 3hrs of dogs whilst trying for tope.

So a quick move and the spinners n slo-jigs come out and we soon found some decent Ballan wrasse after loosing one.

a pb for me 4lb.13oz I don’t know how it didn’t weigh up more it looked bloody enormous. 
 

another move on to a bank for flatties and no flatties but a nice eating size bass for the table a bonus

then one last stop on the way in for fresh mackerel then drift with live bait and boom a solid tope run she weighed just over 30. Good bit of sport and a lovely day on the water worked hard for the fish we had.

 

Josh

Edited June 2, 2021 by Josh

[Andy135]

Hey Josh - sounds like a decent session with some good fish. Lovely wrasse and a very nice tope. Well done 👍

 

[mike farrants]

nice - the effort paid off in the end!

[Saintly Fish]

Well done Josh. A few good fish. Blimey though, don’t you have long arms, that wrasse looks mahoosive. 

[Josh]

25 minutes ago, Saintly Fish said:

Well done Josh. A few good fish. Blimey though, don’t you have long arms, that wrasse looks mahoosive. 

😝😝

[Odyssey]

Nice fishing! Where you launch from? 🙂 

[Josh]

Thanks Odyssey, I go from itchneor mate 

[mike farrants]

16 hours ago, Saintly Fish said:

Well done Josh. A few good fish. Blimey though, don’t you have long arms, that wrasse looks mahoosive. 

I have yet to master the stretch and tuck 😆

[suzook12]

Beautiful looking Ballan, never caught one myself, or even seen one in the flesh..... Cracking early tope too 👍

[Odyssey]

So.....

How come Josh finds all the fish but the chuckle brothers don’t? 😉 

[Andy135]

42 minutes ago, Odyssey said:

So.....

How come Josh finds all the fish but the chuckle brothers don’t? 😉 

Cos he's better than us 😭

[GPSguru]

1 hour ago, Odyssey said:

chuckle brothers

 

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

[Saintly Fish]

2 hours ago, Andy135 said:

Cos he's better than us 😭

Better than YOU!! 
I can catch fish. 
(I’m guessing I’m being classed as one of the to me to you).

[Andy135]

5 minutes ago, Saintly Fish said:

Better than YOU!! 
I can catch fish. 
(I’m guessing I’m being classed as one of the to me to you).

I can catch fish too, but Josh catches better fish, bigger fish and more of them than the pair of us combined.

And yes, it appears that the jokers have stumbled upon a new nickname for us both...

[GPSguru]

21 minutes ago, Andy135 said:

I can catch fish too, but Josh catches better fish, bigger fish and more of them than the pair of us combined.

And yes, it appears that the jokers have stumbled upon a new nickname for us both...

TBF, and this is not critique of the chuckle bros 🤣, Josh puts in a lot of road miles, sea miles, and time, into his fishing. The results of the extra effort that he is able to muster is clear 👍

[Josh]

Luck is always a factor, I have a fine share of blanks, 
but yes @GPSguru I find myself in the petrol garage a lot 😝

[GPSguru]

12 minutes ago, Josh said:

Luck is always a factor, I have a fine share of blanks, 
but yes @GPSguru I find myself in the petrol garage a lot 😝

I only have 5 miles max to the slip !, but I have to stop at Tescos to fill the 90L tank on also every trip 👍

Josh, a good Tuna will be yours this year. As you well know, most are lost in the last part of the fight when the fish starts pinwheeling. The secret is to just keep a medium pressure on the fish and try to recover about a foot of line on each pinwheel, ideally at the same point in each pinwheel.

Also taking the boat to the fish in the early stages, ends the fight a lot quicker.

[Josh]

9 minutes ago, GPSguru said:

I only have 5 miles max to the slip !, but I have to stop at Tescos to fill the 90L tank on also every trip 👍

Josh, a good Tuna will be yours this year. As you well know, most are lost in the last part of the fight when the fish starts pinwheeling. The secret is to just keep a medium pressure on the fish and try to recover about a foot of line on each pinwheel, ideally at the same point in each pinwheel.

Also taking the boat to the fish in the early stages, ends the fight a lot quicker.

ouch 90L

 

100%,

id like to say I won’t let that happen again,, but I put absolutely everything I could into that and learnt so much, I’m so much more to prepared mentally physically.

 

I see that changing the angle of the line in the final stages seems to be popular ... (via driving the boat )which we done NONE of , she had us dead under . 
I can see why it would work 

so ready !🤓🤐

[Odyssey]

6 hours ago, GPSguru said:

I only have 5 miles max to the slip !, but I have to stop at Tescos to fill the 90L tank on also every trip 👍

Josh, a good Tuna will be yours this year. As you well know, most are lost in the last part of the fight when the fish starts pinwheeling. The secret is to just keep a medium pressure on the fish and try to recover about a foot of line on each pinwheel, ideally at the same point in each pinwheel.

Also taking the boat to the fish in the early stages, ends the fight a lot quicker.

I’m keeping quiet on petrol 🤣

However, that said it’s not little and often it’s infrequent but significant 😬😬😬

 

[GPSguru]

20 minutes ago, Odyssey said:

I’m keeping quiet on petrol 🤣

However, that said it’s not little and often it’s infrequent but significant 😬😬😬

 

 

Both wrecking and shark fishing eat up the Nm, so it means having to get yer wallet out more often.

[Odyssey]

9 hours ago, GPSguru said:

 

Both wrecking and shark fishing eat up the Nm, so it means having to get yer wallet out more often.

Yep but if you put in the miles you tend to find the fish 🙂 not the case in winter, tend to run 1 mile from home for cod and rays 🙂