Popular Post mike farrants Posted July 11, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted July 11, 2022 Set for a cracking day - 4 of us met at 6.30am on Sunday and headed out on my mates boat Seadog for the day - original plan was Kidney banks - round Portland bill - for the double figure blondes but the tide was forecast 1.7m and you shouldn't really attempt to anchor it in anything less than a 1.6m - so new plan was mackerel for bait, Lulworth for bream, Adamant for rays. We feathered up some mackerel in Portland's north entrance, and had the bonus of a few pollock too, but the mackerel weren't thick and fast so we moved to the East entrance and bagged up a bucket full - must have been well over 20 good sized mackerel. we steamed over to Lulworth banks and tried a new mark near a drop off - 2 hook flappers and small squid baits we were quite quickly into the bream and wrasse, with one conger also showing up. When the tide eased off to low we upped anchor and moved off to the adamant shoal, anchoring on top - big mackerel baits down hoping for rays and tope. I managed a double figure thornie (was 12.5lb in the tub). and Tim had Tope to 10lb, otherwise it was just Dogs, Jamie lost a big ray as his knot tying isn't up to scratch. a relatively slow full days fishing compared to recent trips - but basking in the sun in the flat calm conditions and still plenty of fish and variety! 7 Black bream and about 12 mackerel to take home! Portland looked amazing through my polarised sunnies! Knackered and a bit red we got back to the marina around 5.30pm awesome! Dicky, Geoff, Andy135 and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 Pretty fish, pretty sky, pretty good day all round mike farrants and Andy135 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 Good sport and good photos. @mike farrants strikes again! Well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 Nice thornie Mike. 👍🏻 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyswamp Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 Nice day and report Were you treading water when you took the last picture 😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike farrants Posted July 11, 2022 Author Share Posted July 11, 2022 50 minutes ago, jonnyswamp said: Were you treading water when you took the last picture 😄 haha looks like i'm in the water - but no - the patch of water nearest the boat was that flat it looked see through Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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