Popular Post GPSguru Posted July 15, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted July 15, 2022 Today was going to be just be a morning trip as it is spring tides, so we needed to be back on the slipway by 12:30, also I had to do the afternoon school run. The slip we use is pretty good, but on springs there is a 2 hour window when the water is just not deep enough to have a safe passage to the slip off the main channel. Kyle and myself launched at 07:45, and we were undecided as where to go. We had already made a decision to give the 9 -12 mile inshore wrecks a miss due to the amount of netting that is going on at the moment. Once out the navigation channel, we headed for the Orestone in search of Mackerel, as we had heard that there were no too many around at the moment. Our usual mark produced on the first drift, with Kyle hitting a couple of whoppers with hokkai’s. However, he cheats, as he sits in front the panoptix screen and drops the hokkai’s right on their nose! We stayed in that area picking up Mackerel and Scad (full strings sometimes) for most of the morning in the pleasant morning sun. At about 11:00am we decided to make a 7 mile steam to the Parson & Clerk rocks, which was a quick trip as the sea was mirror flat. Here we found a few joey,s and not much else. A quick run to the Galicia wreck (about 2 miles) and I was dismayed to find 7 pot buoys and 2 nets ! Whilst at the Galicia another boat came to fish it, and he told us they had come all the way up from Dartmouth and found 12 out of 14 wrecks netted ! Time was now pressing, so we made our way back to the slipway for 12:30. Total for the day was 48 Mackerel (all keepers) and probably a dozen Scad (they went back). A few of the Mack were monsters and therefore reserved for eating, the rest are in the chest freezer as bait. A nice morning to be out, and we covered 24Nm ……………….. Kyle looking smug, using Panoptix to hit the Mackerel, Net dhan's and pot buoys on an inshore wreck, and there was more behind the wreck ! suzook12, Geoff, Andy135 and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDP Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 Frigg me that's some sort of clutter around that wreck, I would of headed to another. Would all that gear be legal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted July 16, 2022 Author Share Posted July 16, 2022 11 hours ago, JDP said: Frigg me that's some sort of clutter around that wreck, I would of headed to another. Would all that gear be legal. Yes, all the gear is legal and was marked with the commercial boat ID numbers. At the moment moving onto the next wreck will just paint a similar picture. I will wait for the commercial fleet maffia to sort it out, because I know that the commercial under 10m line caught boats are very unhappy about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 Nice quick trip and a full bait freezer - good result, despite the nets👍 GPSguru 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike farrants Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 nice blast out for a load of bait! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishybuisness Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 (edited) Nice report GPS. It really is a big issue now with the gear on everything. I went out on wed and its thick with gear on every mark up to 30miles. I now tie up to one buoy and then take it round and round in circles for 10mins or so. I leave it with all the bouys heaped together. Twice ive been out lately and its been upsetting after 200-250 pound fuel bill each time. maybe i shall start towing the gear off the wrecks again. Edited July 18, 2022 by fishybuisness daio web 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 On 7/16/2022 at 1:12 PM, GPSguru said: Yes, all the gear is legal and was marked with the commercial boat ID numbers. At the moment moving onto the next wreck will just paint a similar picture. I will wait for the commercial fleet maffia to sort it out, because I know that the commercial under 10m line caught boats are very unhappy about it. It’s irritating about the nets but if they’re all legal then it’s just one of them things you have to suck up. Whatever we think about it we are only playing at it, the guys who set the nets are doing it for real. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted July 18, 2022 Author Share Posted July 18, 2022 22 minutes ago, JonC said: It’s irritating about the nets but if they’re all legal then it’s just one of them things you have to suck up. Whatever we think about it we are only playing at it, the guys who set the nets are doing it for real. That is usually my way of thinking, but the there needs to be a bit of give and take on both sides. Right now that just isn't happening. Also the line caught commercials need to make living and currently their ability to do that is severely compromised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 11 minutes ago, GPSguru said: That is usually my way of thinking, but the there needs to be a bit of give and take on both sides. Right now that just isn't happening. Also the line caught commercials need to make living and currently their ability to do that is severely compromised. Are the nets from the same boat though? Maybe they are from several boats that just all happen to be working the areas. The problem lies with the organisation that controls (or not) the fisheries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted July 18, 2022 Author Share Posted July 18, 2022 28 minutes ago, JonC said: Are the nets from the same boat though? Maybe they are from several boats that just all happen to be working the areas. The problem lies with the organisation that controls (or not) the fisheries. There is no organisation of the local fishing fleets, it is a free for all, with competition between the 6 ports that the under 10m fleet operate from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 40 minutes ago, GPSguru said: There is no organisation of the local fishing fleets, it is a free for all, with competition between the 6 ports that the under 10m fleet operate from. I won’t pretend to have any knowledge of the commercial fishing license system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted July 18, 2022 Author Share Posted July 18, 2022 5 minutes ago, JonC said: I won’t pretend to have any knowledge of the commercial fishing license system. It is a bit like the mafia without guns 🙄👍🤷♂️ I can pretty much guarantee that if I dropped my 2 pots ( correctly marked) anywhere along our coast here, they would disappear within 2 days. The longest they lasted was 5 day when I fitted a dummy GPS tracker to a flagged and buoyed dhan buoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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