Paul D Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Launched at 8 AM with Gordon as crew. Steamed over to the Clan McVey - engine trim set and no strong pulling to the right now. Sea was flat so crusing along at 20 knots with ease. Nothing showing on the Mcvey and MarineBoy came over to join in the fun but nothing on marineboy either. Then tried a mark further to the west. 3 pout caught. Steamed back to XRay and Gordon had a doggie. Back up the run for 1 PM ( tide was ebbing fast ) and back home by 2 PM, then straight off to the football. Now knackered zzzzzz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alun j. Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Envious........or not ?? Walking along Southbourne prom. in the 'warm' sunshine, not a breath of wind and , looking out over a flat calm sea ............ wished I was out there rather than doing familial duties !!! But..... there were no boats [ in my field of view ] so consoled myself with thoughts of nothing much to catch ! .................. and , Paul, you 've rather confirmed that ................... but I still would have rather been out there on such a nice day. Do you too have this fishing disease / social affliction......... to add to that signature one of us uses...... a bad days fishing [ in nice weather] ...is better than ... [ most other things !!] Half term break coming this week and weather rapidly turns downhill ; can I manage a trip in the harbour.........any flounders left ?? Can Rich save me ?? ...... with a Sat. trip on the river ? [ few reports of Friday's trip .. yet]. Did Pinafore get out today ?? Sorry I couldn't join you Stuart. Thankfully, a well stocked freezer can supply the kitchen, but it's amazing how fast it goes down when not being supplemented with ' fresh caught '. Stop garbling Alun !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coddy Posted February 11, 2006 Report Share Posted February 11, 2006 Hi Paul & all I too went out but not in club waters this time but from Eastney on a friends new Warrior 165 and another friends 150 for company. Headed off on a fairly flat sea south of the Nab to a hole 130ft+ deep. Tide was ebbing and I managed a LSD and a small thornback ray. Due to the strength of the tide we decided to move inshore a bit but we did not even get a nibble there but the tide had eased by now so we returned back to the deep hole. Had some more doggies, pout and the tiniest poor cod I have every seen. The afternoon was getting on and the sea was getting more lumpy so we headed in towards a wreck at Dean Tail, did some drifts there and managed some whiting and pollock. Not a great days fishing for fish sizes as they were all under sized but a great day to be out with good company and a change to be the crew instead of the skipper. Also nice not to have all the boat to clean down and sort out after returning home. Thought you might like to know what's going on the othe side of IOW. Coddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seamouse Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Thought you might like to know what's going on the othe side of IOW. Don't forget those herring, Dave! Over on Moby, we were watching a solid band on the sounder all day, everywhere we went. Maybe 6ft broad and varying between 15ft and 50ft down. Under the main spread were regular bigger signals, which looked like tight shoals of 2-3 large fish rather than one monster. We tried with jumbo Hokkais off and on and in the end foul-hooked a herring! Various shapes and sizes of shrimp rigs, sabikis etc couldn't get a take though. Question is, were the herrings the little signals or the big ones?? Either way, it amounted to a huge number of fish out there Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alun j. Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 Steve, Where was this ?? Looks like turning wet & windy so unlikely to get a go at them ; unless you were in the harbour. Could the echos be shoals of sprats ?? I've found that even tiddlers can give relections on my little Garmin Fishfinder. Alun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seamouse Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 >Where was this ?? Hi Alun, Not Poole Bay I'm afraid, but the other side of the Island. South east of the Nab Tower from a Langstone launch, same place as Coddy was talking about (I was on the buddy boat). We were seeing scattered shoals all over the place travelling but out on the 36M hole it was one constant band on the sounder. >Could the echos be shoals of sprats ?? That's the million dollar question. Was it shoals of small sprat being hit by herring, or herring being stalked by something even larger?? The 'big' signals under the main band looked too big to be an 8oz herring IMO. The one thing I should have tried and didn't was a storm-eye shad. That might have done something?? Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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