Popular Post mike farrants Posted January 24, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 24, 2022 (edited) WOW - what a weekend - given the forecast we decided to head out to the Adamant on Sat and Sunday - both trips on my friends boat Seadog - a Benateau Antares 710. Target Big rays and whiting - anything else a bonus met at 7am and headed out at first light armed with frozen mackerel, squid, cuttle, and pot noodles, We first tried for fresh mackerel around portlands first entrance, no mackerel but i bagged my PB pollock at 2lb taken on some scraggly old tinsels that i refuse to throw out (you know the ones we all have em) - delighted to have a PB on the boat before 9AM and dinned sorted! we gave up on the mackerel after half an hour and made the 45min long steam out tot he adamant - dropping anchor on top of the bank. in about 60-70ft water, decent tide running - 12ox leads or heavier needed. Tim soon pulls up a slab of a blonde - pushing 13.5lb we then get into the whiting - many over 1lb - some to 2lb - the bigger ones taking the big bottom baits. this continued the the rest of the tide, we ended on 7 large keepers and lost count of the smaller ones. once the tide turned we settled nicely out of the cool NE wind, but the fishing slowed down. I was getting a few light taps on my lighter rod, hoping for a ray i left it to develop, and was soon into a decent fish - giving a few head knocks, but kiting up a bit i suspected a ray, but oh no - we all got very excited when we say a decent turbot rising tot he surface - a quick scramble for net and it was aboard - my first ever and PB turbot - of 4lb. Stunning fish and deffo dinner - the pollock got relegated to the freezer! that was the last noteworthy fish of the day. I filleted the keepers on the way in and shared the whiting with friends and neighbours - keeping the pollock and turbot to myself. Sunday we met again at the marina but chose to head straight to the adamant - anchoring again on the top. Tim was soon into the first fish which gave a spirited fight and tangled 3 other lines - lots of swearing got the 8lb angry spurdog in the boat - put in a flexi tub while we sorted the tangles, it was soon released. a lovely fish! we continued to catch loads of small whiting but only had 3 keepers and the dogs seemed more ravenous that saturday. Tim had a small spotted ray on the turn of the tide the fishing picked up again - runing out of mackerel we switched to squid and this seemed to help. I had a huge pull down on my smaller rod in the holder, on a whole squid - but by the time i had got hold of it the fish had spat the bait - knowing to leave it down there sure enough a minute later it was back - bang - my PB smoothound - we didn't weight it, but i'm estimating 5lb. the bait survived and went back down, only to get me a small Spotted ray - a very angry one! Tim finished the day with a tiny smoothie Pup. I went home delighted, exhausted, and cooked up some Cajun baked turbot for tea! Edited January 24, 2022 by mike farrants mick, jonnyswamp, Andy135 and 7 others 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 WOW indeed! What a great couple of sessions! Very good work the pair of you! Beats my crappy outing into a cocked hat. Kudos to you both. Get those PB's into the PB Gallery @mike farrants 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Not bad I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Nice report and well done on the turbo! Geoff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daio web Posted February 10, 2022 Share Posted February 10, 2022 nice one bwoys great report and pics keep it up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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