Popular Post mike farrants Posted May 30, 2022 Popular Post Posted May 30, 2022 An early start saw me at the marina for 5.30am - with an all day session on sea dog planned - plenty of time for multiple locations. We intended to do the morning on lulworth ledge for the bream, and the afternoon on the adamant shoal for the big stuff. we got over to lulworth and anchored our usual spot - i had one rod for the bream and one for something bigger - Tim went all out for the bream on both rods (he used an LRF rod with 1oz weight - great fun!) I had a run of dogs, but coudn't connect to the bream bites - i was using the tenticles from one of the squid i caught in the winter - and they seemed to like them, but i couldnt connect. Tim had a couple of nice red gurnards and a couple of decent bream. at slack water i put the squid head down (minus its tenticles) and hooked into a nice thornie which gave a good fight. we upped anchor as it went quiet and headed for the adamant - no one else there so we tried a couple of drifts over it hoping for a turbot (usually too busy to drift) - nothing doing but such a nice day we decided to motor on to the shambles - we set up a nice drift along the length of the bank, with some sabikis over the side for any launce, towards the end of the drift i thought i had a tap but wasnt sure - reeled in a lovely little Turbot - target achieved. 2nd drift produced another small turbot for me and 2 sandeels for Tim 3rd drift the tide had almost stopped and the wind pushed us off the bank - but not before i had bagged 2 big launce - my first ever! I'm starting to like this turbot fishing! on the way back we tried for some mackerel in portlands entrances but nothing happening. getting back to the marina at 5.30 meant a long 12 hr session - but it was lovely! Bonus was Tim gave me his bream for tea! GPSguru, Andy135, Dicky and 6 others 9 Quote
Andy135 Posted May 30, 2022 Posted May 30, 2022 Excellent results Mike! Nicely done 👍 Turbot is a rare fish round here. Very envious. And well done on the launce too. mike farrants 1 Quote
GPSguru Posted May 30, 2022 Posted May 30, 2022 Excellent Mike, yes Turbo’s are good to catch and put up a good scrap. I am sure @JonC will be along later to advise you on the best methods 🙄 mike farrants 1 Quote
mike farrants Posted May 30, 2022 Author Posted May 30, 2022 2 hours ago, GPSguru said: Excellent Mike, yes Turbo’s are good to catch and put up a good scrap. I am sure @JonC will be along later to advise you on the best methods 🙄 delicious too - shame these weren't keepers! Quote
GPSguru Posted May 30, 2022 Posted May 30, 2022 10 minutes ago, mike farrants said: delicious too - shame these weren't keepers! I don't think that I have ever caught a non keeper, but we don't get as many on the skerries as you guy’s get on the shambles. Quote
mike farrants Posted May 30, 2022 Author Posted May 30, 2022 these 2 were possibly 30cm, but just seemed too small to take so i didn't measure- we want them to come back bigger - 4lb and over! Quote
GPSguru Posted May 30, 2022 Posted May 30, 2022 12 minutes ago, mike farrants said: these 2 were possibly 30cm, but just seemed too small to take so i didn't measure- we want them to come back bigger - 4lb and over! Yes, pretty much all of the Turbo’s we catch on the banks are 5lb - 10lb, although plenty of fish in the high 20’s have been caught over the years that I can remember. The skerries banks still hold the record at 33lb. mike farrants 1 Quote
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