Saintly Fish Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 22 minutes ago, Maverick said: Boats fueled and watered, tackle ready, Deans shopping for edible supplies as I type, chinos are packed and on the van all ready for our off at 7am tomorrow. Tomorrows weather looks good, Saturday am looking ok with the wind rising as the day goes on with Sunday looking like a bumpy ride home Our aim Friday is to fish south of the island then into the solent and onto Hamble river between 5/6pm See you tomorrow Apart from the last couple of hours of the ebb on both Saturday and Sunday we will have wind with tide. Tides are also small so the chop should not be too bad in the solent, if much at all. Look forward to all of your arrivals tomorrow! Maverick 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyswamp Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Have a good weekend all 👍🎣 Andy135 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 19 minutes ago, jonnyswamp said: Have a good weekend all 👍🎣 Thanks Nick. Next year we'll have to do a BC meet so you can show us how to catch some mud pigs 👍 jonnyswamp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Yes, I hope you all have a good weekend and hopefully some decent dangling. I was thinking about going out tomorrow, but really still not well enough, but hey, getting there slowly as my body gets used to the side effects. The next nice day will see me out on the wrecks. Andy135 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 Made it to Mercury safely in the end, despite my best efforts at the fuel pontoon @Scotch_Egg2012 🤣 @JonC, @Geoff, @Maverick, @captin slows old outlaw and @Saintly Fish are all looking forward to tomorrow's dangling. The start time however is directly proportional to the number of pints sunk this evening! Saintly Fish and Scotch_Egg2012 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyswamp Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Cmon boys, how did it go ? GPSguru 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 2 hours ago, jonnyswamp said: Cmon boys, how did it go ? It got bumpy this afternoon. Some of us are still feeling the floor rock... jury's out if that's because of the sea state this afternoon or the refreshments this evening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotch_Egg2012 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 On 7/2/2021 at 8:59 PM, Andy135 said: Made it to Mercury safely in the end, despite my best efforts at the fuel pontoon @Scotch_Egg2012 🤣 @JonC, @Geoff, @Maverick, @captin slows old outlaw and @Saintly Fish are all looking forward to tomorrow's dangling. The start time however is directly proportional to the number of pints sunk this evening! I did slow in case you needed a hand. Looked like you had it under control though. I never fuel up on the outside of that pontoon you get beat up by wash etc. Hope the fishing was good looked a little bumpy when I drove past Lee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 More details in due course, but it's fair to say that @Saintly Fish deserves a medal for all of his organisation of the meet and his skippering this afternoon. Some good fish were had by all. @captin slows old outlaw and I had to work hard for ours but we avoided the blank eventually with a mackerel on a bream rig and this decent smoothound that took the bait like a steam train. Not huge but very sporting. Scotch_Egg2012 and Saintly Fish 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 3 minutes ago, Scotch_Egg2012 said: I did slow in case you needed a hand. Looked like you had it under control though. I never fuel up on the outside of that pontoon you get beat up by wash etc. Hope the fishing was good looked a little bumpy when I drove past Lee. Yep, thanks Scott. I saw that you hung back in case I got stuck - appreciated. 👍 Lesson learned - always tie off on a centre clear, and never the stern when there's a breeze blowing the bow off the pontoon! 😳 Scotch_Egg2012 and suzook12 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotch_Egg2012 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 1 minute ago, Andy135 said: More details in due course, but it's fair to say that @Saintly Fish deserves a medal for all of his organisation of the Metz and his skippering this afternoon. Some good fish were had by all. @captin slows old outlaw and I had to work hard for ours but we avoided the blank eventually with a mackerel on a bream rig and this decent smoothound that took the bait like a steam train. Not huge but very sporting. Good that the fish gods duly delivered. Andy135 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyswamp Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 36 minutes ago, Andy135 said: It got bumpy this afternoon. Some of us are still feeling the floor rock... jury's out if that's because of the sea state this afternoon or the refreshments this evening. Who's that on the left, he's got his kids tee shirt on by the looks and is that fishy with an earing ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 9 minutes ago, jonnyswamp said: Who's that on the left, he's got his kids tee shirt on by the looks and is that fishy with an earing ! @JonC is wearing his kid's tee shirt and yes, that's @Saintly Fishwith an earring. 🤣 captin slows old outlaw, Scotch_Egg2012 and jonnyswamp 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyswamp Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 Look forward to the report 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 I caught a fish which was nice. captin slows old outlaw and jonnyswamp 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted July 3, 2021 Share Posted July 3, 2021 I saw people catch fish, but only on my boat. I saw Andy look like he was about to, but didn’t. but then did……. Eventually …. jonnyswamp, Andy135, GPSguru and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Saintly Fish Posted July 3, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 3, 2021 I’ll put some pics up tomorrow. But needless to say, we had a fun weekend. suzook12, jonnyswamp, Andy135 and 2 others 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 So we had a lovely weekend which started of with our small flotilla of boats leaving Mercury yacht harbour at circa 8am. Madness and Jersey Girl. @JonCchose this opportune moment to change the mono on his reel. Once out of the Hamble we turned east and headed to Browndown. This gave @Andy135 and Jersey Girl a chance to play in my wake. Once on the mark we anchored firmly (well Tarlach Too did, the other amateurs struggled). We thought Andy and @captin slows old outlaw had had a lovers tiff because Andy spent so much time on the bow! 🤣 Any way fishing wasn’t prolific, I had a mackerel on my first drop down which took a frozen sand eel. Jon managed to professional unhook a hound before it reached the boat and Leo had a nice little 6lb hound. We also had a splattering of LSD. The fishing wasn’t very good, we sat it out for 4 hours then I made the decision to pull the pick and relocate. So next mark was quarter mile west of the East bramble cardinal bouy. This proved to be a better choice. For about 2 hours we were kept busy with a series of small fish, mainly dogs, small hound pups and a first for my boat, Leo landed a couple of very pretty Bull huss pups. Then Jon got into his stride and landed a nice hound, and a lovely bream which went to around 1.5lb. Leo also had another 6lb hound. After that the fishing died off again. So in an attempt to make Jons long drive down seem worth it, we relocated again to Hillhead. Fishing in only 4m of water and not a lot of tide I knew it would be tough but there was every chance of a decent hound because of the decent beach fishing there. And soon enough Jon landed his “biggest hound” comp winning fish. A decent double figure, at just over 10lb. Not a long fish but very round, muscular and determined to hide himself in my net by rolling and rolling and covering himself in the mesh. And that was really that. The wind and chop started getting up so at around 4pm we headed home ready for showers and a night out. A great day out and a pleasure to have @JonC on board making a mess with his worms!! 🤣 @Maverick had a couple of other species on his boat. But I’ll leave him to tell you about them! 👍🏻 Andy135, Scotch_Egg2012 and jonnyswamp 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captin slows old outlaw Posted July 4, 2021 Author Share Posted July 4, 2021 14 hours ago, Saintly Fish said: I saw people catch fish, but only on my boat. I saw Andy look like he was about to, but didn’t. but then did……. Eventually …. he didnot whont to show us all up Andy135 and Saintly Fish 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captin slows old outlaw Posted July 4, 2021 Author Share Posted July 4, 2021 it was a grate day out, i caught the specermon of the day a star fish 🤣 neal put a lote of effert into this meating and deservs my thanks at least. he gained a new cushon, ( fishy that ) andy was the perfact host skipper, even thoug he krpt giving me the finger ( whinch singnells ) the eavning was grate putting faces to names and to top it off england one 4 nill i am looking forward to next years meet all ready Andy135 and Scotch_Egg2012 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 27 minutes ago, captin slows old outlaw said: i caught the specermon of the day a star fish 🤣 Here's the photo evidence! Geoff, JonC, jonnyswamp and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 22 minutes ago, Andy135 said: Here's the photo evidence! Bet that put a bend in your 30/50 rod Pete. Scotch_Egg2012 and Geoff 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 jonnyswamp, Geoff and Scotch_Egg2012 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 5 minutes ago, JonC said: Superb official photography there Jon! Scotch_Egg2012 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonC Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 Andy135, jonnyswamp, Saintly Fish and 2 others 3 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.