Rob Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 So just spent the week in Dartmouth with the boat, And family! Had some issues with the Yamaha. It was a little spluttery and missing on low revs. High revs seemed ok but a slow increase in revs would stall it. But tickover to planning in one go was fine - sorry Dart Harbour Master!!!! Anyhow I wasn't happy to go out out on it with the kids so only made the crabbing spots inside the Dart. But hey, 'twas good fun. Tues after the BHol Mon I headed to the Yam dealer, bought a new fuel tank as I am retiring one and a new pickup pipe for the other as investigations had found that the pipe had somehow bent in the tank! A read of the service manual and some process of elimination and testing completed all was purring well. Olivia (7.5) and I headed out for mackerel in a 6/7ft swell and some wind. Not a sniff but she was super keen, headed back in from the swell and found some deep water in shelter. Still nothing! We true once more a day or so later and could not make contact! As I like to try and get out twice a day on hols I headed out to a flat sea with brilliant sunshine an met a local boat trying for macs. They advised that everyone was struggling even the charter fleet out deep for macs! Oh well tried anyway, passed over 2 (what looked like) shoals on the sounder, not a sniff. So off for a speed test!!! Lost the of my tool box, the wind took it off. So a search for it was in order, retraced my steps (no FF or Gps onboard this trip) and passed the lid by 2ft @ 26knts, result! More crabbing ensued and no more fishing. Kids had been to the beach all Friday am and got back at 3, cold and worn out, I had to persuade (not too much) Olivia to come ray fishing on the Skerries. Fishing was cr@p and 2 dogfish in 29m water with 1 3/4lb lead not great but the fun was had crossing the skerries to get the the mark! Dreams came true and these are some stills from the video. We had 20mins with them. Must have been 100+ and they got us wet!!!! No wonder the mackerel have left the area! R Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Coddy, niggle, Matt and 10 others 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher 126 Posted June 4, 2016 Report Share Posted June 4, 2016 One very happy young lady, a great result if not the best result you could of asked for well done. One she will remember for ever!! Jim, Ark and bobbing along 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Brilliant Rob. As Chris says. Forever in her memories. ! ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted June 5, 2016 Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Fantastic sighting Rob sure it put the poor fishing in perspective!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted June 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2016 Brilliant Rob. As Chris says. Forever in her memories. ! ! And mine Jim!!! These are stills from some video footage. Which is mostly me telling Livvy how amazing it is!!! I used my Faux-Pro (as I like to call it). It is a copy Go-Pro and is pretty good! Comes with a screen on the back too. Fits all Go-Pro accessories. It is so good there are fakes of this fake!!! But you have to make sure you don't get a copy of a copy!! If anyone is interested I can make a post about it. I think it was sub £70 but with additional accessories unde£100. Better than £300+ for the decent go-pro. R Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Leicester Fisheagle and Jim 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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