Lumpy Sunday

[niggle]

Set out at eight with mate Hodgy and across the bay against the chop...the Osprey is like a land rover is just goes over anything and it wasn't uncomfortable.......for me

Got to Swanage bay to find most of Poole charter fleet in the area,some sheltering under the cliffs but I went to my mark in the middle of the bay where dogs showed first followed by mackerel then Chris got a nice undulate of 11lb but he was feeling iffy

A move to Old Harry and cooked some lunch but not a bite all the time there and only saw one bream to the mass of charters.

Chris was feeling good again so back to our mark Chris had a small bream then a small conger.

Then I had a small spotted ray,two seconds later a steaming run on mackeral head with produced a 12lb undulate.Chris then thought he had a bass but turned out to be a decent cuttlefish ,more dogs then a bass to me of 2/3lb which went back .

The journey back across the bay was going great at a careful 18knts as Chris slipped on his life jacket because he didn't like the size of the waves following us but then unknown to him I lost a lot of revs and she nearly died but picked up again but if I gave it full throttle under load the revs would drop down to 1200

A steady throttle got us back safely at 14knts but that ment the waves were overtaking us.

Tomorrow I'll check the fuel filters.......just hope that's the cause as she revs freely out of gear.

I think we done well in poor conditions and the coast guards and RNLI were kept well busy with fires on board,broken masts,people on cliffs and head injuries etc etc

Nige(notgoingfishingmondaymendingboat)

[Stuie]

Racking them up now Nigel - too iffy for us today.

Nice report.

[AQUAJAK]

Well done for getting out Nige......hope you solve the engine problem

 

Nick