Adam F Posted May 20, 2011 Report Share Posted May 20, 2011 Simple plan today - day off work, sun, light winds, bags of bream and a relaxing day afloat.... erm... not quite! The day started OK, me, Paul Frey and Alun J met at the boat and headed round to Ballard in the sun and light NW breeze, but the bream just went playing ball, 3 moves and still no bream, so a drift through the mark and we havent seen a fish despite about a dozen boats all fishing the mark. Al then managed to add a new species to my tally - a Sea Scorpion By now the wind was top of a F4 and had gone SW, and the sun had gone in... even a drift through the mark failed to produce so we headed out to my banker ray mark. It was still sloppy out there and with the morning flood dying we had wind over tide and swung wildly, que masses of tangles. In between all this Paul managed to squeek out 3 fine rays - a nice Small Eye of 10lb and a pair of beautiful Spotted Ray. Poole patch was the next target but similar conditions and no bream meant this was a short stop, however we did stop for lunch here, and Will's efforts on the recent Alderney trip had inspired me, so we had fresh squid (caught by Al on Thurs) salad from my garden and buttered Jersey Royals for lunch .....mmmmmm! To end the day we spent an hour drifting the Haven and managed to save the day with half a dozen hard fighting bass on spinning rods and Storm Eels. Anyway - nice to be out, goes to show you cant always brim the fish box! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
great white Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 Nice one mate I wondered why I had not seen Paul Yesterday Love the pictures, the starter looks nice Charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirky Posted May 21, 2011 Report Share Posted May 21, 2011 Oh dear Adam...... what sounds like a disappointing day for you would have been a stonker for most of us humble fishers .... AND you are out on the briney again..... Still I s'pose after Alderney it was a bit tame !! Good piccys and well done Paul.....in fact well done all !! Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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