Popular Post GPSguru Posted July 27, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted July 27, 2022 (edited) Excellent weather and sea conditions were forecast, so it was to be a day at the Skerries. With Kyle as crew we launched at 7:40am and after a decent steam of 20miles we arrived on the Skerries banks at 8:25am. The conditions were perfect, flat calm and a mirror sea, not often you get those sort of conditions on the banks, however, with no wind and neap tides, our drift was quite slow, so I immediately knew that would be an issue for the Plaice. Looking on the bright side, a slow drift is good for Rays, and Mackerel can be caught at any time. I had already looked at the tidal stream graph and decided our best time for Plaice would be from 11:00am onwards, where we would drift along the banks at about 1kt, heading 227 degree's true. Straight away I was into Mackerel, only small, but perfect for bait. Kyle was first in with a Plaice, which was a decent keeper, but then he followed with 4 postage stamp fish ! Interestingly, the first 2 Mackerel were followed to the surface by quite large Cuttlefish, but I didn’t have any jigs in the tackle box. I felt a good bite and lifted into something heavy, which I assumed to be a Ray. Carefully I got it off the bottom and in typical big ray fashion it moved slowly off taking line. I tried to turn it, but I was using Plaice gear, and the line parted at the zip slider swivel knot. Next Kyle was into a ray and slowly boated a 7 ½ lb small eyed, which was good going with a 20lb snood and a sakuma 510 Atlantic size 1 hook. Now time was pushing on, and at 11:00am we repositioned for a drift along the banks. Perfect timing, as the drift was 0.8 – 1.2kts, and we were picking up a lot of decent keeper Plaice and Mackerel. All too soon it was 2:00pm and time to make our way back to port, a quite fast trip on a flat calm sea. We finished the day with 22 Plaice (11 keepers and 11 put back to grow bigger, so a 50/50 day 😃), 53 Mackerel, and the usual pack of Grey and Tub grunters, which all went back. An excellent day in which we covered 46Nm ……………. Kyle with the Small Eyed The average stamp of Plaice Flat calm, which is unusual on the banks Looking toward Dartmouth The Plaice filleted Edited July 28, 2022 by GPSguru Andy135, Geoff, thejollysinker and 6 others 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyswamp Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 Great days fishing that, I'm not envious at all Would much rather be in work 🙄 Andy135 and GPSguru 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 Outstanding session! Well done to you both 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 Well done, and good choice butchering the fish at home, wouldn’t want that knife bouncing about on your lilo. suzook12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 Nice one Ian. Good fishing as always. The way Kyle is dressed looks like it's winter though!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted July 28, 2022 Author Share Posted July 28, 2022 2 hours ago, Saintly Fish said: Nice one Ian. Good fishing as always. The way Kyle is dressed looks like it's winter though!! At 7:00 am the temp here was 10C, so a little chilly. Kyle is also a carrot top, so avoids the sun ! 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willyhookit Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 Well done Ian & Kyle hold on a minute or two ill bring the chips GPSguru 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted July 28, 2022 Author Share Posted July 28, 2022 5 hours ago, JonC said: Well done, and good choice butchering the fish at home, wouldn’t want that knife bouncing about on your lilo. I usually fillet round fish on the boat, Kyle helms whilst I fillet, but flatties require more care, so I do them at home 😉 willyhookit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 3 hours ago, GPSguru said: At 7:00 am the temp here was 10C, so a little chilly. Kyle is also a carrot top, so avoids the sun ! 😂 That's probably why @Andy135 always wears his thermals and fleece hat in the middle of summer. Even when not fishing. GPSguru 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 So why isn’t Kyle on hear/here? He would love is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 1 hour ago, JonC said: So why isn’t Kyle on hear/here? He would love is. Too many gingerists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 3 minutes ago, Andy135 said: Too many gingerists. Really? Who are these people? I’ll deal with them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted July 28, 2022 Author Share Posted July 28, 2022 3 hours ago, JonC said: So why isn’t Kyle on hear/here? He would love is. He doesn't really ‘do’ any social media, only on ‘steam’ playing games wiv his mates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 25 minutes ago, GPSguru said: He doesn't really ‘do’ any social media, only on ‘steam’ playing games wiv his mates. Yeah we’ll get that out of his head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted July 28, 2022 Author Share Posted July 28, 2022 5 minutes ago, JonC said: Yeah we’ll get that out of his head. He doesn't play too much in the way of games, mainly farming simulator ( his farm is worth several billion 🤣) and CoD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 2 minutes ago, GPSguru said: He doesn't play too much in the way of games, mainly farming simulator ( his farm is worth several billion 🤣) and CoD. Don’t get many cod in this part of the country, all fished out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted July 28, 2022 Author Share Posted July 28, 2022 16 minutes ago, JonC said: Don’t get many cod in this part of the country, all fished out. 🙄Call of Duty, you old fart 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 Steam, that takes me back. I used to play CounterStrike on Steam years ago. And Half-Life. Good games. GPSguru 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 37 minutes ago, Andy135 said: Steam, that takes me back. I used to play CounterStrike on Steam years ago. And Half-Life. Good games. Did you dress up for that like when you play Zelda? GPSguru 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 22 minutes ago, JonC said: Did you dress up for that like when you play Zelda? Do you even know who Zelda is? #tryingtobedownwiththekids Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 3 minutes ago, Andy135 said: Do you even know who Zelda is? #tryingtobedownwiththekids Down with the kids? It was out in the 90’s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 37 minutes ago, JonC said: Down with the kids? It was out in the 90’s Nope, that was the N64 era. Originally launched in the 1980's on some obscure Nintendo hardware. So, guessing you don't know who Zelda is then? Without googling? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 I would say great report but you set a high bar so I’ll give you 7 out of ten due to lack of pictures 🤣🤣🤣 @Andy135 gets 10/10 for his reports that do t contain a dogfish as it’s so rare it happens…. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 GPSguru, Andy135 and captin slows old outlaw 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 19 minutes ago, Andy135 said: Nope, that was the N64 era. Originally launched in the 1980's on some obscure Nintendo hardware. So, guessing you don't know who Zelda is then? Without googling? I had a Super Nintendo an aN64 but I didn’t play the geeky games, more Streetfighter2 etc. Out of interest what did you dress up as when you played Echo the dolphin? A ginger mermaid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted July 28, 2022 Share Posted July 28, 2022 11 minutes ago, JonC said: I had a Super Nintendo an aN64 but I didn’t play the geeky games, more Streetfighter2 etc. Out of interest what did you dress up as when you played Echo the dolphin? A ginger mermaid? FFS, I think you mean Ecco the Dolphin, and that was a Sega platform release, not Nintendo. I didn't have a Sega, so I never played Ecco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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