Popular Post jonnyswamp Posted May 23, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 23, 2022 A good forecast and a small tide saw me relinquish my tiling/kitchen fitting/general house renovation duties that have taken up pretty much all of my weekends and spare time this last few months With Shuff and Nipper for crew, we got the 7am lock and headed up towards Portishead, with the first half hour of the flood helping us on our way The targets were some Bass and maybe the odd Sole A flat sea made for a comfortable, uneventful journey until an object that appeared a few hundred yards ahead slowly began to take the shape of what looked like a floating corpse I slowed down and had a better look and it was indeed a dead body of a male floating face down Rang the coast guard, gave all the details etc and they asked us if we would stay with it until the Penarth lifeboat got there I stayed around 80yds away and the lifeboat crew got there around 40 mins later, thanked us for staying with him, put on their aprons and gloves etc and we left We carried on to our chosen mark and did a bit of fishing, one keeper Bass at the first mark for Nipper and a tiny Codling for Shuff, then nothing for hours Moved to another mark just before high which gave me a small Bass and a nice keeper that evaded the net and lived to fight another day We called it a day around 2.30 and got the 3.15pm lock back in Bit of a subdued trip and very surreal drifting along side a body for 40 odd minutes wondering how he got there, is anyone missing him etc Mrs Swamp saw an article on one of the news pages and apparently he had gone missing from Gloucestershire on May 10th and there weren't any suspicious circumstances At least his family now have closure, if that's any consolation RIP Victor Dicky, suzook12, thejollysinker and 5 others 4 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 How awful for you however I am sure that the family would have thanked you for calling it in. Andy135, Geoff and jonnyswamp 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 That’s an awful thing to find, I would suspect it’s not that uncommon in some areas like the straights of Dover but I’ve never known anyone to find one. jonnyswamp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Well that's not the type of surprise you want/expect. Well done for doing the right thing Nick! 👍🏻 Geoff and jonnyswamp 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Sorry to hear and kudos for calling it in. Must have been tempting to have just kept going to avoid wasting valuable fishing time, so as others have said, well done for doing it right. And at least you caught some fish as well 👍 jonnyswamp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daio web Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 hope you have better luck next time out jonnyswamp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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