Popular Post mike farrants Posted April 24, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted April 24, 2023 Another weekend another cracking day afloat! Met at the marina for the 8am bridge lift - big tides so had to use the bridge - off out to try a new mark - looked on navionics and found somewhere fishy looking to try - about 5 miles out, 70ft water, over mixed ground. Hoping for bream, rays, congers, that sort of thing - plus being a new mark you just never know! dropped the hook and rigged up a 2 hook flapper on the light rod with squid and a medium fish bait on the heavier rod. Bang straight into a fish on the light rod before i could bait up the other rod - Scad - another for the species hunt. Not long in we had a steady stream of black bream, Dogs, Eels, pout etc. I had a fierce rattle and though bream - but was delighted to see a stunning Mr cuckoo wrasse - always a pleasure to see and only my 2nd. plus a tick off on the species hunt. About half an hour later Mrs Cuckoo showed up - my first female Cuckoo the wind dropped to nothing over slack and all we had were dogs and bootlace eels. - until Bang Tim had a decent fish on - big Bully not long after i too had a Bull Huss - my first and an absolute chunk of a fish - another ticked off the species hunt! as the tide picked up so did the fishing - the bream came back on the feed and Tim landed a boat record at over 3lb. He also had the only ray of the day - a humble thornie (one for his species hunt) the tide was racing through and it made holding bottom difficult - but we persevered. and im glad we did we had big chunky squid that we had caught ourselves over the winter and so I decided to bung a big squid bait down for a hound and i was well rewarded with my PB smoothy - a spirited fight swimming up tide, head bangs, taking line, we thought tope to start with - an absolute tank of a double figure Smoothound! just over 10lb absolutely cracking day afloat - and it was T shirt weather for about an hour! I'm now on 13 species for the hunt in just over a month - i totalled 22 last year - so i'm doing well. Tim also hooked 2 scallops and a doggie on one trace - so the scallops came home for a snack! Tamarisk64, Hoop, daio web and 7 others 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 Great fishing again Mike. mike farrants 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 Top drawer! mike farrants 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 Good session! Well done the pair of you. 👍 mike farrants 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daio web Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 well done mike great report again keep it up son mike farrants 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyswamp Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 Nice one Mike, cracking day and report Those cuckoo's are beautiful fair play mike farrants 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 Great report but watch out in case your boat gets jealous 😮🤣 mike farrants and daio web 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoop Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 Beautiful Cuckoo's but the star of the show has to be that Bream, what a cracker!! mike farrants 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captin slows old outlaw Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 what a day you had, your species hunt is looking good to mike farrants 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bass&Chips Posted April 27, 2023 Share Posted April 27, 2023 Great bit of variety there and some cracking fish plus a new mark to boot. Excellent report and pics. mike farrants and Andy135 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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