Out again today - 30th July

[GPSguru]

Last night the wife asked about sea state and tides for today, as she decided, with it being the hottest day this summer, that it would be nice to get out.

So, I asked where she wanted to go, wrecks, Skerries, or something else, and she wanted to go Mackerel fishing, and, TBF she is bloody good at it.

I was happy with that, but warned her that we would be having to work hard for just a few, as they are a bit thin on the ground.

Due to some medical issues this was her first time out this year, we launched at 08:30 and made our way out to some of my 'banker' mackerel marks.

Soon we were beginning to catch, only ones and twos but they were very decent sized fish.

TBH, it was very hot today, calm mirror sea, almost no wind, so that made the fishing a bit harder.

I went to 5 marks, and we ended up with 34 Mackerel, so not too shabby, and she also managed a Pollock of about 3lb off a rock mark.  Most have gone in the bait freezer, but 4 were jumbo sized and are in the fridge for eating.

Came back in at 4pm, the temp here in Lyme Bay was 29C, so quite warm !

A decent trip of 25 miles, but it was great to be out there again, and I quite enjoyed our maccy bashing session. I did fit in a visit to one wreck, but it was netted 🙄

No pics, coz we all know what the average mack looks like 🙄

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 31, 2024 by GPSguru

[RogB]

Glad you found some. "Thin on the ground" is an understatement! I was beginning to think it was just me..

9hrs afloat July for the Teignmouth airshow, 2 of us fishing quite inshore out of the wind for 2 gurnards. Last weekend 4hrs out on the kayaks for 6 on sat, 3 hrs on the boat out a mile or two for 1 scad (from the sewer buoy "reef" 🤮) on sunday over HW. Even the mackerel boat followed us 3 times, as if we knew best😂

Shore fishing the Ness beach was much more productive for a few evenings but that soon dried up. Anyway the ones we did have were good sized.

Keep up the reports, I was inspired by your short videos and managed to shoot the typhoon at the airshow from the back of our tub but need to work out how to YouTube it.

Cheers, Roger

 

[Andy135]

Glad you both had a good time out. 34 is a very respectable tally - great work 👍

[GPSguru]

1 hour ago, RogB said:

Glad you found some. "Thin on the ground" is an understatement! I was beginning to think it was just me..

9hrs afloat July for the Teignmouth airshow, 2 of us fishing quite inshore out of the wind for 2 gurnards. Last weekend 4hrs out on the kayaks for 6 on sat, 3 hrs on the boat out a mile or two for 1 scad (from the sewer buoy "reef" 🤮) on sunday over HW. Even the mackerel boat followed us 3 times, as if we knew best😂

Shore fishing the Ness beach was much more productive for a few evenings but that soon dried up. Anyway the ones we did have were good sized.

Keep up the reports, I was inspired by your short videos and managed to shoot the typhoon at the airshow from the back of our tub but need to work out how to YouTube it.

Cheers, Roger

 

The sewer buoy, correctly known as the 'special purpose buoy' was one of the marks that failed miserably, the mack came from the Orestone, Outer Livermeads, Long Quarry, and the Parson & Clerk.

 

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