Mike Y Posted April 17, 2006 Report Share Posted April 17, 2006 Went out of Weymouth on Sunday with my father and two brothers in Blue Boy our Warrior 195 - force 4 Westerly was forecast and we were unsure how lumpy it would be when we hit the Shambles. In fact the sea was not too bad although fairly nasty over the overflows. We drifted the bank for about 45 minutes before a bite to me turned out to be a small plaice about 1.5 pounds which was returned. Half an hour later and a cracking bite on my brother Dave's plaice gear led to quite a fight which turned out to be a turbot of about 5-6 pounds - a beautiful fish which was very thick across the middle. As you can imagine he was over the moon - lucky ******! Anyway as the tide slackened we fished for another hour or so on the bank without a bite and decided to move off to try a bit of wrecking. On arrival we found the wreck straight away - which is quite a feat for us - and with the last of the ebb trickling through my brother sat us on top of the wreck and ordered lines down. I dropped my storm sandeel straight on the ironwork and five slow turns up it was met with an enquiry - I resisted the urge to strike and carried on winding until the line tightened up - a few powerful runs and a bit of head-shaking and then there was a bit of colour - white! A lovely plump spring codling of knocking on for 5 pounds - get in! The The next hour saw a pollack a drift to one of our rods as we must have landed 15 or more crash-diving pollack - all bar 3 of which were returned to fight another day and also our first mackerel of the season which took my storm sandeel on the drop. As the flood started to move the fish seemed to go off the feed and we returned to Weymouth through some pretty loppy water until we got in under the lee of Portland - a really enjoyable day out. I am now even more excited about the Alderney trip!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob F Posted April 17, 2006 Report Share Posted April 17, 2006 Cracking trip Mike. Good to see you getting more adventurous. A good reward for your efforts. Don't forget to register your catch. Nice one! BF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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