For Alun and I on Tigerfish, the 48 hour comp transmuted to just the Saturday. We had a good day out. First objective find some mackerel, happily we soon saw some terns diving so out with the feathers. We had a mad time catching mackerel of all sizes, out numbered by the bass, some over 2lb, they were coming in thick and fast, great fun 3 at once at times. They were feeding on herring fry. With enough mackerel in the live well we set off for some bigger bass.
A bigger one showed up first drift, we had 10 or so of good size mostly between 4 and 6lb. The best went 7lb 9oz.
After a fairly early return we gave the boat a good clean down then off to the Mayflower for a pint.
Loobie 1V went out Saturday with Reel Magic and Alfresco. Had a lumpy few hours 20 miles out we came back in and had fun with the Bass and Mackerel around Kimmeridge, huge numbers of both which was great to see though nothing over 4lbs.
48 hr Comp Results
1. Mike Hall Gilthead Bream 2-4oz 112.5%
2 Allan Green Thornback Ray 12-8oz 96.15%
3. Steve Scott Bass 7-9oz 79.61%
Well done to the winners and all those who took part over a patchy weekend weather wise.
Blimey Jerry that was quick
Have not recovered enough from another bouncy day to report anything yet
Well done Mike , we did not get anything like a 100% fish
Saturday started well enough with three boats heading for wrecks 20 miles out, bait fishing went well in Swanage so off we go, trouble was it was a little breezy and the water was a bit coloured and nobody had a single fish.
Dave and I decided to anchor the deep gulley, I believe Dave and Mick struggled for bites but we seemed to get a few
Started with some Huss, best 9lb to Ian, then some Tope best 28lb to me.
We were just about to move to try and anchor a wreck and Dave was pulling his anchor to come over when I had another close encounter with the Poole Bay Monster on my tope rig. looking down I could see colour and thought it looked odd, then I realised a F~~~~ng big Porgie was swimming straight at the boat, she hovered alongside for a little while as I barked all sorts of instructions at my poor crew to fetch a camera wind up the lines etc etc, then she decided that she didn't like sunlight and set off for Portland. By the time 200 metres of braid was off the reel I decided to up the drag, but all that did was straighten a 6/0 hook.
I then got a bit focused an another go with some bigger hooks, so had to tell Dave I was staying put. we carried on catching plenty of Tope but the big fish did not return
Sorry if I messed up your plan Dave, but it was a very big Porgie, at least 8 feet long and I got a bit excited
Great stuff, bit of a heart stopping moment there Charlie!
For future reference when you next in that lucky position I've found (Florida and Kenya) 'mostly' big sharks do long runs but then will turn back or are prepared to come back to you, so next time maybe let it run till you are almost out of line in the hope it will do so. Another thing on these long runs the drag force gets higher and higher as the diameter of the reel spooled with line reduces, it can make a massive difference so you can need to back off the drag, easy to say but in the heat of the moment easy to forget!
Thanks Steve
Brand new 300m of 50 braid only loaded Friday so I knew I had room to play, but a 6/0 uptide hook is OK for Tope but not that big boy.
If we get out there again may go up to stronger hooks or big circles
Too far out for JoJo Charlie?
Rob [emoji3]
When Charlie saw the Porbeagle I thought that the Russians were invading " don't panic Capt Mainwairing".
Great fun for 2 days, Alan landed a PB Tope, I had a stunning Red Mullet, lots of Tope (with 2 landed at the same time that brought up all 4 rigs). Charlie had the smallest Bream ever landed and I had a Conger that may of only just hatched.
I exercised my right to catch and release a lovely Spotted Ray when a stunned Charlie informed me (sternly) that this was a competition and it was around specimen size, oops.
Thanks for the 2 days and our beers tasted extra special on Sunday night with a take away from Chinese Whispers
1 hour ago, Rob said:Too far out for JoJo Charlie?
Rob
Not compared to where you go on holiday, its about 15 miles from entrance
I bet that groundbait would sure help
1 hour ago, iansimpson63 said:When Charlie saw the Porbeagle I thought that the Russians were invading " don't panic Capt Mainwairing".
Great fun for 2 days, Alan landed a PB Tope, I had a stunning Red Mullet, lots of Tope (with 2 landed at the same time that brought up all 4 rigs). Charlie had the smallest Bream ever landed and I had a Conger that may of only just hatched.
I exercised my right to catch and release a lovely Spotted Ray when a stunned Charlie informed me (sternly) that this was a competition and it was around specimen size, oops.
Thanks for the 2 days and our beers tasted extra special on Sunday night with a take away from Chinese Whispers
Thanks Ian
Glad you enjoyed it, I sure did
Guys it’s starting to look like there may be a wooden spoon award for the biggest balls up during a club comp, fish being returned before weighing them, the plaice comp, gutting fish before weighing them, a trend starting to show.
And of course plenty have been returned before being photographed during comps!
Just thinking out loud. 😳😳
I almost gutted one of Martin's
He just caught me in time ! <img alt=":lol:" data-emoticon="" src="/emoticons/default_laugh.png" title=":lol:" />
33 minutes ago, Kingfisher 126 said:Guys it’s starting to look like there may be a wooden spoon award for the biggest balls up during a club comp, fish being returned before weighing them, the plaice comp, gutting fish before weighing them, a trend starting to show.
And of course plenty have been returned before being photographed during comps!
Just thinking out loud. 😳😳
Well we are all getting older <img alt=":bawling:" data-emoticon="true" src="/emoticons/bawling.png" title=":bawling:">
18 minutes ago, Tiddler said:I almost gutted one of Martin's
He just caught me in time ! <img alt=":lol:" data-emoticon="" src="/emoticons/default_laugh.png" title=":lol:">
Don't worry I have forgotten about that, see my previous post <img alt=":grimace:" data-emoticon="true" src="/emoticons/grimace.png" title=":grimace:">