Sinbad Posted May 2, 2005 Report Share Posted May 2, 2005 Saw the forecast for Friday, and having been told in no uncertain terms to get the boat off the drive by my wife... took the day off and was down by the harbour by 0730hrs, water lapping at my feet, ready for a bit of marine agriculture. got a good supply of fat king rag before returning for breakfast. The day had already started as a good un. Spent the rest of the day on final preps to the boat, then launched at Parkstone arround 1530. Plan was to drift the swash for a plaice and then head over to the patch for the run off. tried a number of drifts, some rattling bites but couldnt connect any - after some time the mist started to roll down - and I didnt fancy being in the swash with the Condor, so headed for the outer patch. lots of action almost straight away - wrasse - ballan and cookoo ( fantastic orange and turquoise ) to ragworm - then a small smoothhound to whole squid - nice little scrapper, then loads of bream, best to 2lb 3oz on rag tipped with squid. a few pout also turned up. Was kept busy until 20.00hrs when my bait supply ran out, then realised I couldnt actually see anything - no shore, no other fishing boat - only 100m away! coming back in took a bit of getting used to - very disorienting - at one stage lost my sense of direction and started to doubt the GPS. in the end best method was to switch to the track view, and followed this all the way in - absolutely perfect and it picked up the north channel very easily. A Raider 18 went past me down the main channel and a few minutes later I nearly jumped out the boat, when the steamer let off its fog horn, very close, could hear the engines but saw nothing!!! .....Those guys must have had alot of laundry to do. So although a short session - for me the first of the season - everything worked on the boat, surprisingly. And a fantastic start to the weekend - nevermind summertime - roll on next time!! Paul ps - Charlie, sorry didnt contact you on 06 - Glad you made it out in the fog anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
great white Posted May 2, 2005 Report Share Posted May 2, 2005 Sounds like you had a good day we scratched out a few fish in the fog but no bream on friday Sam's mate had his first smoothound and several other fish so a good evening inshore Charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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