Seamouse Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 Hi folks, I was with Coddy at last weekend's IAC bash off Selsey and we had pretty much the same sort of returns. Saturday saw utopia swamped in boats and all of them hauling tope and a few hounds. On SeaMouse, we were having a few problems with leader knots failing, dropped runs etc but still managed 4 tope to 11lb and three hounds to the same despite the hounds being unusually picky and stripping baits without hooking up all day. Moving into Boulder saw it on great form for bream but being in a comp, we banged out our quota of four each and moved on. Medmery blanked for rays and we wrapped up with a drift across Brake for pollack and pout to up our score. Sunday was completely different. Mirror calm, to start with. We tried the hole rather than utopia but the tope were nursing sore heads. We got just one of 11lb and a lovely 10lb undulate that'd not actually been hooked, it just wouldn't let go of the line. It spat out my circle hook in disgust when I went to 'unhook' it. A shift inshore saw a couple of small tope on the drift across slack then anchors in for another small tope and a serious run of hounds. We had 4 from 8-10lbs but Moby was going great guns beside us, with a double hook-up of 12lb starries at one point. Finished the day on Brake Ledge gathering more points among the bream and pollack. Interesting weekend, both the tope and bream fishing best I've seen it. Last time I take a competition seriously though, I was upping anchor and leaving shoals of feeding bream. Life's too short for that! Very happy with SeaMouse, although there's still trim and handling issues to iron out. Guess i'd better change my forum name. Martin, if you read this, would you do that please? Otherwise I'll PM. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Martin Posted June 8, 2006 Report Share Posted June 8, 2006 Hi Steve Nice report, you seem to have had a better weekend than I did Have changed your name I guess that's the name you wanted? Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seamouse Posted June 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 Yup, much appreciated and RIP Lookfar Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam F Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 Steve, What are the trim and handling issues? Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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