Popular Post mike farrants Posted February 13, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 13, 2023 Had a mate staying down and the weather looked perfect for a trip out in pugwash on saturday. Light winds off the land all day. the plan was to get bait first in portland entrances then go and anchor up on the Hotspot - for whiting and rays. the trip almost didn't go to plan as leaving the pontoon there was a grumbling/vibration from the prop = quickly into reverse and it stopped - so a bit of forward and backward and it seemed to clear - having not moved the boat for a few months we put it down to crud on the prop - and continued out of the marina cautiously - by the time we passed under the bridge it had stopped. and during the day it didnt come back, even at full chat 6knots (can i assume it was crud on prop? not worse?) We made our way out to portlands North entrance - in search of mackerel - and wow! bang straight into them - full strings - it was bonkers - they were right under the boat at one point and you could see them hitting the feathers as we dipped them in - not sure how many we had but we came home with 35 after a days fishing with them! so easily had 40-50. we quickly moved on to the hotspot and anchored up - slightly early as the tide hadn't quite started to drop - the light wind pushed us round a bit and held us off the mark for the first hour - we chose to fish only one rod each with a whole flappered mackerel until the tide picked up and put us on the mark - didnt seem to matter as shane was almost straight into a 12lb thornie - poss his biggest ever fish - deffo his PB ray. he soon had another Ray and a couple of conger one was double figures = i had a smaller conger = we both had dogs. as the tide turned we dropped a 2nd rod each with smaller baits for the whiting and they obliged in numbers - but not size - nothing over 1lb Shane had a 3rd Thornback, and was beginning to rub it in when i pulled into a big ray myself - im guessing double figure! as the light started to fade we called it a day and pulled the anchor - headed back in under a beautiful sky - all told it must have been over 70 fish to the boat! lets say 45 mackerel, 20 whiting, 4 rays, 3 conger, and a few dogs suzook12, Malc, GPSguru and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 (edited) S🙂ounds like a really great day out. Well done. Geoff. Edited February 13, 2023 by Geoff full stop mike farrants 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Just now, Geoff said: Well done Geoff I don't think Geoff was there. Andy135 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 3 minutes ago, Saintly Fish said: I don't think Geoff was there. What is a missing full stop between friends? Geoff. Saintly Fish and Andy135 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Nice one, good numbers of fish which is nice to see. mike farrants 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Quality! Well done. Good skippering. Not jealous at all. Much. mike farrants 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daio web Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 well done mike great report and pics mate mike farrants and Andy135 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejollysinker Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 Superb for February 👍 mike farrants and daio web 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 A great day out Mike. You might need to turn off the ‘fish’ icons on your plotter and go over to looking for arches and moving patterns. The fish symbol gives way too many false positives 😉 Those Rays can give quite a good account of themselves in the tide. daio web 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 1 hour ago, GPSguru said: A great day out Mike. You might need to turn off the ‘fish’ icons on your plotter and go over to looking for arches and moving patterns. The fish symbol gives way too many false positives 😉 Those Rays can give quite a good account of themselves in the tide. So do the arches. Mine shows loads but I never catch many. GPSguru and daio web 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike farrants Posted February 15, 2023 Author Share Posted February 15, 2023 6 hours ago, GPSguru said: A great day out Mike. You might need to turn off the ‘fish’ icons on your plotter and go over to looking for arches and moving patterns. The fish symbol gives way too many false positives 😉 Those Rays can give quite a good account of themselves in the tide. I have to admit i'm a complete novice on that sort of thing - any links to good tutorials would be great? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 7 hours ago, Saintly Fish said: So do the arches. Mine shows loads but I never catch many. You need to know what you are looking at, also, just because there seems to be a lot of fish, you don't know what type of fish etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike farrants Posted February 15, 2023 Author Share Posted February 15, 2023 I keep seeing our own feathers or hokais too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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