mike farrants Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 (edited) Not too much to show sadly - decided last minute to brave the 10+Mph S Easterlies and one of the biggest tides of the year so met at my mates boat for the 8AM bridge and headed out with the charters! first stop was a small wreck not far off the stone pier - we initially just wanted to look at it on the sounder to see if it was any decent size - it was nicely marked with one pot bouy - but when we scanned it looked full of bait - so we gave a couple of drifts - i was straight into a mackerel - but sadly that was the only one after 4 short drifts. We moved to Portland's first entrance - nothing, we moved to the 2nd entrance - nothing - we were treated to a dolphin display in the bow wave of a tanker as it came out. after an hour of trying and only one mackerel there was only one thing for it - lose some tackle on the Hood - 3rd entrance. by the time we got there the tide was ripping out and the wind was blowing in creating a bit if a race/overfalls - there were others there too inc commercial bass boats - we feathered and lost gear - but luckily also caught - with 6 mackerel and a gar fish we were done and off to anchor some mixed ground. with big baits on the bottom and small flapper rigs we had a mixed bag in the tough conditions - tide was ripping out and holding us side on to the swell and chop i had a lonely bream, 2x decent conger, and a poor cod (needed for my species hunt) Tim had a red gurnard, poor cod, thornie and couple of dogs Tims son Jason stole the show at the end of the day with a monster 11lb Bull Huss - taken on Garfish fillet! a brute! after dealing with the huss - Tim asked me why i was fishing uptide........... i wasn't - yup the anchor had tripped and we were moving backwards at around 1 knot. time to call it a day. Edited September 12, 2022 by mike farrants Andy135, Geoff, suzook12 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Sounds like a productive day out. Good work. Can you PM me with more details on your picture posting issue please? I'll see if I can get it fixed asap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Well done for getting out Mike. Not like mine and Andy's slapstick day! Andy135 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike farrants Posted September 12, 2022 Author Share Posted September 12, 2022 Andy135 and Geoff 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDP Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Chunky huss, conditions looked pretty good out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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