Sunday 14th Jan - Weymouth

[mike farrants]

Light winds and big tides meant another trip out - met at the marina at 7am and immediately found a problem - the marina are doing work on the wall near my mates boat and they left a dingy in our way and a floating pontoon half blocking our exit -

quick rant at the harbour master (who assured we would have unrestricted access throughout the works) and they come and move it - but that took nearly an hour and with the big tide flooding rapidly to high at 9am that left us very little room under the bridge - which wasn't lifting until 10am. we chanced it and squeaked under with 6 inches to spare at the highest point!  

the day didn't get much better for me despite big tides - only managing pout and a dog. Luckily I caught more than a weekends worth last weekend - and still had fresh fish in the freezer!

Tim did better with pout, poor cod, Thornie, spotted ray, a strap and a decent +30lb eel. 

freezing cold all day - but stunning skies. 

 

(tip if you didn't know - if you suffer from cold hands wear a pair of surgical gloves under your neoprene fishing gloves - works wonders for warmth.)

 

[daio web]

great report mike shame on the fish cant wear gloves when i am fishing i find it better without them 

[Andy135]

Well done on the dogfish Mike 👍.

If it were me I'd have been tempted to move the dinghy myself then gently squeeze past the floating pontoon . Does the Harbour master get funny if you do that sort of thing in Weymouth?

[mike farrants]

yeah we could of Andy, but we wanted to inconvenience him at 7.30am on a Sunday - as we had been inconvenienced!!

plus it was a contractors dingy and we didn't want to upset them as they're working by the boat for a good few weeks!