Monday Aboard Neo

[Sam]

headed out for an afternoon fishing with paul on neo.

 

the weather forecast was completely wrong it was sunny and flat calm, the hole time we were out.

 

headed out through christchurch harbour with the other prop on to see if it was the prop that was affecting the boats speed, it was so we decided to beach the boat and change it over, we got it on the beach and paul broke the clip that holds the propeller on so we had to stick with the old prop, we then tried to launch the boat off again as a wave hit the boat bringing the boat sidewards and getting wedged on the shore. we had the engine half way down trying to motor it off the beach with me pushing ,slowly it was working and then i got hit with a wave and soaked. eventually we got it off and headed out for some fishing.

 

we drifted in close for the wrasse first and had 6 we then decided to head out to the ledge and just as we got there the charter boat was pulling one in so it looked promising but we blanked.

 

so we decided to try a ledge just pass x ray which was showing loads of fish on echo sounder so we put down anchor.

 

we caught loads of dogfish on light gear then we started catching alot of mackeral we had about 15, which pauls dog liked eating hole.

 

tried one last time in the harbour for mullet but no luck but you could see them all coming up and eating the groundbait which was impressive, i would love to try there again.

 

thanks for a nice day paul

 

sam

[Paul D]

Your welcome - Next time it will be Solent to blank on the smoothhounds ( Hopefully should catch some ).

 

It was a pleasant day to be afloat though, despite the lack of fish.

 

 

 

[Sam]

would love to fish the solent if you need crew but i suspect you will have helen with you

 

sam