Popular Post mike farrants Posted January 8 Popular Post Share Posted January 8 wow what a day - non stop action from the first drop to the last........ Forecast weather window for the weekend had northerly 15mph on Saturday - northerly is off the land so 15mph is just about do-able. Small tides so expectations were low. Met at Tims boat for 7am to get out before sunrise - no messing about trying to find bait- straight to the 5nm mark with frozen baits in case the wind strengthened. Target - Whiting on the small gear- rays on the big stuff. dropped the hook, wind and tide not quite aligned but was ok bit bumpy an swinging a bit - dropped the small rigs first while the boat settled and was straight into the fish - literally as soon as the lead touched down. We had so much action on the small rods it was hours before we put the big ones out - Pout, Bream, Whiting, scad, dogfish. I have never put back so many decent bream - we must have had over 20 to the boat - all decent size. Some of the pout were bigguns too - great non stop fun! eventually we tired of that and had we already had 2 decent bream and 3 big whiting for the table - so we put out the big baits only to find the Pout, whiting and bream hitting them too - Tim had a big Bream on a 6.0 hook and mackerel fillet!! - these fish were ravenous, either stripping the mackerel baits or hooking themselves! I put down a mackerel head hoping the bait would last long enough for something bigger and I was rewarded with a big angry double figure Bull Huss. I also managed a Scallop on the big rod - must have taken a fancy to my muppet...... 🤣 perfect for a starter! On the way home we were escorted by a pod of Dolphins - always amazing to see. Bream and Scallop for tea, with the whiting done in chunks for sunday lunch fish wrap!! a pretty special day afloat to kick start the year - I was knackered though - combination of cold and all day action on a constantly moving boat really tired me out - I must be out of practice! 😜 Lets hope this is a good sign for the year ahead! Malc, Andy135, mick and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GPSguru Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 1 hour ago, mike farrants said: wow what a day - non stop action from the first drop to the last........ Forecast weather window for the weekend had northerly 15mph on Saturday - northerly is off the land so 15mph is just about do-able. Small tides so expectations were low. Met at Tims boat for 7am to get out before sunrise - no messing about trying to find bait- straight to the 5nm mark with frozen baits in case the wind strengthened. Target - Whiting on the small gear- rays on the big stuff. dropped the hook, wind and tide not quite aligned but was ok bit bumpy an swinging a bit - dropped the small rigs first while the boat settled and was straight into the fish - literally as soon as the lead touched down. We had so much action on the small rods it was hours before we put the big ones out - Pout, Bream, Whiting, scad, dogfish. I have never put back so many decent bream - we must have had over 20 to the boat - all decent size. Some of the pout were bigguns too - great non stop fun! eventually we tired of that and had we already had 2 decent bream and 3 big whiting for the table - so we put out the big baits only to find the Pout, whiting and bream hitting them too - Tim had a big Bream on a 6.0 hook and mackerel fillet!! - these fish were ravenous, either stripping the mackerel baits or hooking themselves! I put down a mackerel head hoping the bait would last long enough for something bigger and I was rewarded with a big angry double figure Bull Huss. I also managed a Scallop on the big rod - must have taken a fancy to my muppet...... 🤣 perfect for a starter! On the way home we were escorted by a pod of Dolphins - always amazing to see. Bream and Scallop for tea, with the whiting done in chunks for sunday lunch fish wrap!! a pretty special day afloat to kick start the year - I was knackered though - combination of cold and all day action on a constantly moving boat really tired me out - I must be out of practice! 😜 Lets hope this is a good sign for the year ahead! Well done Mike, excellent. Sea was a tad too rough here to go out, however, if the weather holds then a trip to the skerries is on the cards for next weekend after some winter Turbot. mike farrants 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Excellent stuff! Lump of a huss and a nice haul if bream for the pan happy days 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnyswamp Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 A belter of a day by the looks And still decent Bream about, can't be bad Well done that man !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Well done, great report and a bit food photography to top it off 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike farrants Posted January 8 Author Share Posted January 8 1 hour ago, jonnyswamp said: A belter of a day by the looks And still decent Bream about, can't be bad Well done that man !! The bream stay here all year now! jonnyswamp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 1 hour ago, mike farrants said: The bream stay here all year now! Yep no longer a summer visitor. Nice day out was had by the look of it. Well done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Good effort! Well dangled. 👍 I was hearing that the bream are still about around the IoW too. They must overwinter onshore these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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