Popular Post mike farrants Posted September 1, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted September 1, 2023 24th, 25th 28th and 29h August all roll into one a bit so heres a round up. had the in laws down so I took a week off and we spent the first half deep in @GPSguru territory with a trip west to Torquay - taking in Brixham, paignton, torquay, Teignmouth and sidmouth - family trip so no fishing - but lovely sight seeing and plenty of good food an dbeeer. we were back in weymouth on the 24th that saw me and phil (in law) take pugwash out - calm day no winds but with a few showers about proved interesting. we went for mackerel first for bait and in and out of showers managed a few - including 2 bigguns reserved for tea. We then went out to anchor up on a known mixed species mark. flat calm almost eery conditions. soon after anchoring the rain came - we were lucky it was slack as we could shelter inthe wheelhouse without too many fish to deal with - the rain intensified an then the rumbles came. Thunder wasnt ofrecats for us but i could see it was moving up the channel - we were on the fringe of the storm and could track it on 'real time lightening tracker' - it was 50/50 if we shoudl stay or go as we could see forks of lightening hitting the horizon - clearly tot he north was clear, but the channel was getting it - bout outside us gave some comfort as they didnt move. soon enough the storm passed and made way for sunshine and rainbows. the fishing was slow - but we managed bream, congers = one was Phil's PB and a monster - 30lb easy. we also had dogs. but no rays. i managed a belter of asmooth houd which dam near took my rod over the side - i caught the rod butt as the reel was level with the gunwhales! Friday 25th was better for rain but with wind forecast from lunch we decided to stay inshore and drift portland harbour walls and inshore reefs. Phil got a lovely Tub gurnard - his first and we both managed wrasse, pollock, and gurnards. Sunday 27th the in laws had gone and new fishing friend arrived - we met at portland bill to watch the Cowes Torquay Cowes power baots come past - they come increadibly close at full speed - i expected quite the spectacle but sadly on 5 started, only 4 passed the bill, one returned in limp mode, one broke both gearboxes in torquay and so only 2 finished. the 2 big ones at full throttle (silverline and Good Boy Vodka) sounded epic though! as a child in the 90s i used to be fascinated watching them arrive on the IOW slanted on low loaders and seeing the start was awesome! Bank holiday Monday i took shane out on pugwash - we went for bait first in the usual places and only managed 2 mackerel in the 2 hours - sadly we listened in on channel 16 on a huge search and rescue operation by weymouth lifeboat, S&R helicopters and many local and passing charters and private boats looking for an overdue diver from a wreck trip a couple of miles off of Portland bill - the search went on for hours and sadly didnt end well. Thoughts to the diver and his family. we headed out to anchor up - we had gurnards, dogs, eels, and shane had a baby smoothie. Wind picked up a bit fresher and earlier than expected so we called it rather than be uncomfortable - shane took his Bream for tea. Tuesday 29th after work we went out for a short shore spinning session with light gear in a known mackerel mark so Shane could get his daughter fishing - on arrival at dusk we saw fish jumping - being dusk i though school bass but it was actually Scad - almost a hit a cast on the Seadra aqua bullet (thanks @JonC for the tip off- they really are great casting jigs)- great fun either scad on the surface or small pollock on deeper retrieves. Shanes daughter was getting the hang of casting and managed a decent Scad - shane found a schoolie and pout amongst the scad on his rag baited flapper too! - we did the same the following evening. they're here for the weekend so i hope to bring more reports soon! Andy135, Geoff, daio web and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 Nice, do you eat the scad? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike farrants Posted September 1, 2023 Author Share Posted September 1, 2023 36 minutes ago, Malc said: Nice, do you eat the scad? no - i haven't ever - I didn't think they were much good for eating? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 Crikey, you've been busy! Good work 👍. Some nice fish to the boat and onto the plate. That conger looks decent - shame they don't seem to make good eating as the bigger ones would feed a family for a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daio web Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 great report again mate nice one fella Andy135 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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