Popular Post Josh Posted May 24, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 24, 2022 Whilst away in Turkey joining on any free wifi connections I was watching Sundays forecast holding nice on the iow grounds. so a day at home to turn the boat around Saturday and by 2am Sunday I was on the road towing to Chichester harbour (from Kent takes me about 2hr) so semi local …as all of us boat anglers know you don’t turn down good weather windows, they don’t come that often .. I could of done with the extra rest on the back of the delayed flights ect but the fishing instinct got the better of me. Blasting out the harbour I noticed my tell tail wasn’t overly strong so I stopped and fiddled around with the hood off (as it was so calm I actually climbed in the transom area ) but couldn’t get to the hose clips.. ended up putting the hood back on then manually sliding a bit of 400lb mono up from the outside jiggled it and then it was clear and pushing out strong . Super pleased as I hate problems or potential problems as I’m sure we all do ha. Saw a big garfish swimming round the back of boat . Anyway Carried on blasting to the overfalls to try drifting with dead launce (big bastads from the previous Cornwall trips ) for bass. First time for the overfalls for me always heard of horror stories so picking exceptional weather and a mid size tide I thought would be ideal for a first go. All be it not a single bass as a result quite a few pack tope biting us off some managing to come in I did lose a better tope (assumably)which gave me a great fight on my spinning rod .. but ultimately pulled the hook.Once drifting off of the overfalls I stuck the chum in and set up a shark rod on the hope of a early thresher but not to be and another tope hit those live baits. So nice to have plenty of mackerel especially this time of year good signs for coming months. After a few more hrs we shot in dropped anchor to see if we could nick a blonde ray but only managed a couple of small spotteds. All in all a very pleasant day on the water. Can’t wait to get back out Dicky, Saintly Fish, GPSguru and 5 others 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 Nice one Josh. I did consider the Overfalls for Sunday's weather, which incidentally turned out even better than the forecast predicted it would be, but in the end we stayed relatively local and went to Sandown Bay instead. Did you get caught in the sea fog that came down around 8.30am, or were you already far enough out to avoid it? Josh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicky Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 Good effort Josh and great to hear the macky are showing. Josh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 9 minutes ago, Dicky said: Good effort Josh and great to hear the macky are showing. There are more Mack around at the moment than at the same period over the last couple of years, but they can still be elusive at times, but once you find them they are there in numbers and all sizes. Josh and Dicky 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted May 25, 2022 Author Share Posted May 25, 2022 13 hours ago, Andy135 said: Nice one Josh. I did consider the Overfalls for Sunday's weather, which incidentally turned out even better than the forecast predicted it would be, but in the end we stayed relatively local and went to Sandown Bay instead. Did you get caught in the sea fog that came down around 8.30am, or were you already far enough out to avoid it? Ah nice one mate yes wer caught in it visibility was terrible on the overfalls really hung on till about 10am then turned lovely any joy in the bay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 54 minutes ago, Josh said: any joy in the bay Bream, and plenty of them. 👍 Josh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted May 25, 2022 Author Share Posted May 25, 2022 2 hours ago, Andy135 said: Bream, and plenty of them. 👍 Nice mate one of my favourite eating bream Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daio web Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 good report mate Josh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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