IOM trip

[Martin Hurst ( HOW )]

Our Fourth trip to the IOM to fish the Pokerstars Comp , and despite the weather causing the comps cancellation what a belter it was . Trustees Martin , Edward and Neil were accompanied by Richard , Andy and Stephen . Sailing from Liverpool , the now traditional pre sail beer in the cavern club was cancelled as some chap called McCartney was belting out a few tunes in there 🙂 . On the ferry , Richard spotted Max Boyce , and couldn’t resist a selfie with the bemused chap 🙄The accomodation , at King Williams college was again spot on , with full breakfasts provided at Lazer Mahems coffee cottage ,  a cracking venue run by ex forces personnel , and also by Iom trustee Tony’s wife with Tony hindering her in the kitchen 😁.  Friday we launched at Port Erin , everyone catching some cracking pollock as well as an abundance of cuckoo and Ballan wrasse .  With the Comp being off on Saturday due to gale force winds we were taken under the wing of local expert Johnathon and to the North of the island . Unfortunately with the winds swirling and shifting direction regularly we were unable to launch but were treated to a tour of the works being undertaken to restore Ramsay pier , a 15 year project.
Sunday arrived with a slight hangover , and the promise of the wind dropping late afternoon . A quick trip over to Port Soderick to look at how our new training base is progressing , Followed by a trip to Port st marys to meet up with the great lads and lasses from our IOM section over a cup of tea and Beryl’s wonderful sponge and lemon drizzle cake 🙂.  After much discussion we headed back to Port Erin and launched into a testing sea . The lads gained some valuable experience before catching a few wrasse and pollock in the shelter of the breakwater. 
And so our trip came to an end , however with the ferry delayed 2 hours we got a cheeky launch in and had some nice pollock , filleted for the trip home 😁

[Jim]

Brilliant!

 

Never be afraid to post on here.

It's good to see how it's going and we're proud to do our little bit to help.

Thanks.

 

Jim

 

[Kingfisher 126]

Thanks for the update Martin, always good to hear what's going on.

Shame the weather played up but looks like you made best use of your time, well done to you all.  👍👍

[lofty]

Cheers for sharing. Some good fishing

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[Rob]

Nice report thanks. Looks like IOM has potential, I wonder how much it costs to take a trailer on the ferry!?!?!

R