Swainiac Posted November 5, 2006 Report Share Posted November 5, 2006 (edited) After a few messages back and forth over the week, Cascars and crew decided on the long haul from Tonbridge and surrounding areas, to pay us humble folk a visit, and have a look at the area, prior to next weeks Open, which they have decided to fish. Mark and I arrived at Baiter just after eight, and Nipper was in the water with little problem. Bob and robert Fuller arrived shortly afterwards, and we helped get him in the water. He was hoping for a few fish farther out, along with Martin and Dean, who had launched out of Cobbs. We decided to drift out, and bang on the kettle, waiting for Terry and crew to arrive and get launched. Martin and Dean obviously smelt this, and were soon rafted alongside, supping a hot brew. Coddy drew in on board Sammy, and a a fair gathering of club boats were in the water. Duncan steamed past on Phaeton, Sammy left, Martin and Bob F slipped away, and we were left waiting for Terry. He was soon in the car park, and his Quicksilver was soon alongside, in readiness to follow us out to our chosen ground. I had fished this area blind, with Bob F on Splash out, and thought it looked like a Cod /Whiting holding area, so off we went. Less than twenty minutes later, the area was scanned for our chosen lip, and hook was down. Terry anchored not a million miles away. Baits down, and the long wait ensued. The first bite came, and I landed a doggie, then all was quiet. Sea Mistress managed a few doggies, and quite rightly, decided on a move, assisted by his anchor slipping! He moved off to visit a nearby wreck, then the last we heard, he was heading over to the Island. Mark and I stuck it out, big baits on one rod, and baited feathers on the other. Mark had a knock.......and fish on. It hit the surface, and I netted a beautifull Brill, bang on 4lb. Result..........but a week early!! More doggies later, Sea Princess came back, and we sat it out for a while.......almost till sundown. The boys sneaked off to Old Harry, to try a few plugs, and we sat it out, waiting for the water to get higher on the slip. Steaming home, Terry reported a few Pollack on lures, so I'm pleased thier ourney wasnt a complete waste of time. We got back to the slip, and Splash Out was already waiting to trailer up, we got him on, recovered Nipper, then got Terry and crew back on dry land. Not a total watse of time, but our plan for next weeks Open was definately agreed upon. See you guys out there next week......or maybe not. Charlie........Marks Brill for the book please 4lb dead. Thank. Great to see you and your crew Terry, see you early doors Sunday. Rich Edited November 6, 2006 by Rich J.A.W. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan Posted November 5, 2006 Report Share Posted November 5, 2006 Couldn't resist the forecast and some hard begging saw me leave Tonbridge (hotbed of angling!) Saturday pm for the run down to Poole. A quick lube and level job later and I left the boat, heater on, for the club and a few beers. Nice warm boat, clear screen etc, Sunday saw us head off via the fuel berth, to the promised mirror calm sea and a bountyfull catch................ah well a lazy Northerly, a dodgy plotter, the wrong cartridge in another and a broken thermos quickly showed us the way of the day! Messed around for an hour looking for our mark with the sonar saw us give that one up and head for one we had 'numbers' rather than a waypoint plotted..............get there and can't find diddly on the sonar - prod the plotter button for the 100 th time cursing it and the damm thing springs into life! Back to the banks just in time for the ebb saw no bites and eventually we had had enough. Hearing little success locally we headed off to an area suggested by Phil (Mistress Linda) the night before. Anchor down, lines away and bites straight away! A fair few hours fun with whiting, pout, bass and dogs - all returned except a pair of whiting - and we headed back happy after watching the sun go down. Lets hope we get the weather next week............... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverick Martin Posted November 5, 2006 Report Share Posted November 5, 2006 Dean and I ventured out today. We met up with the crew of Nipper and scrounged a hot mug of coffee of Baiter whilst they were waiting for our friends from Kent. We then steamed straight out to our favoured mark somewhere on the blue briny Set the pick in and started fishing the first of the ebb. Bites were instantaneous with around half a dozen eels to 20lb and 4 bass to 41/4lb coming in quick succession. Tides were quite large and as the ebb got stronger so bites slowed up. We then had a visit from the crew of Palomine (Andy and Jack) who anchored not to far from us. You may of heard of their reputation as fish scare mongers, well I can confirm its true No sooner had their lines hit the water all forms of sea life seemed to vanish We had 1 small conger during the next 4 hours Thankfully Palomine decided to call it an early day and departed around 3ish and as if by magic we started getting a few bites culminating in a nice 30lb Conger for Dean Was it the Paolmine effect or could it just have been the tide had eased Another nice day to be afloat, that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coddy Posted November 6, 2006 Report Share Posted November 6, 2006 Hi all, With such nice weather I decided to head for the Needles to see if I could catch a Cod! Having arrived over there it was like a car park at B&Q! Picked my spot and dropped the pick jsuat as the last of the flood was going. I soon started getting bites but could not connect but I was not surprised due to the size of hooks I was using. Well after a few hours and with the tide rushing through and having to use 1lb to 1.5lb wieghts I decided to head back towards Poole. Had a few drifts in the Swash with out any luck! Got back to my slip only to find it was completly dried out so a quick call to my son to collect the car and trailer and meet me at Baiter to recover. Thanks to Bob F for the help in pushing the boat and trailer to the car. Would have stopped for a chat to everyone but my son needed to get back. No Cod in fact no fish! but it was great being out and travelling 50miles on water on a super day. Coddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted November 6, 2006 Report Share Posted November 6, 2006 (edited) I will let PD do the fish report as he was skipper. It was quite a challenge getting out of Christchurch Harbour at 7am due to the heavy fog which meant you could not see where the next channel marker was until you were right on top of them. Saw many other boats abandoning their missions or anchoring up and waiting for the fog to lift. A glorious day to be at the IOW- sunshine and flat seas meant we were even able to break out the new cooker. PD must make the best sausage baps in the entire fleet- and i've tried a few. I can't help thinking that if i'd put one of those sausages on the hook i may have even managed a Cod- alas it wasn't to be but had a good time trying Great day out cheers PD PJ Edited November 6, 2006 by Paul J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady jane Posted November 6, 2006 Report Share Posted November 6, 2006 good start to the day, no parking charges at lymington car park. got anchored up just past the needles and good fishing for all but an hour no cod but some nice whiting, jumbo pouting and the dogfish. cheers andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan Posted November 6, 2006 Report Share Posted November 6, 2006 It was quite a challenge getting out of Christchurch Harbour at 7am due to the heavy fog which meant you could not see where the next channel marker was until you were right on top of them. Saw many other boats abandoning their missions or anchoring up and waiting for the fog to lift. whilst I understand that radar is a luxury I thought just about everyone had a gps showing their track and /or waypoints if not a chartplotter ? what happens at night? please don't anyone take this as a slur on the seamanship or otherwise of those acting this way; quite the opposite - someone deciding to put safety first gets al the ticks in my book. Just interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruffy Posted November 6, 2006 Report Share Posted November 6, 2006 Let's hope there's still some sunshine up there for next sunday...brilliant weather again. Still finding some bass, this one would have made the qualifying weight for the C&R comp. I also caught a 4 1/4lb fish that I C&R'd last week, it had the same distinctive markings on a flank and the marks were I removed a few scales. Don't hesitate to throw a few lures next week if the water you are in is reasonably shallow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted November 6, 2006 Report Share Posted November 6, 2006 Duncan, We had a plotter and were fine, the boats that turned back obviously didn't or hadn't saved their tracks. I still don't trust them completley going through the run unless it was recently updated as the sands shift from one season to the next. PJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul D Posted November 6, 2006 Report Share Posted November 6, 2006 Duncan, Paul is almost correct, but you are also "Onto something" ! As I knew we would be coming back in the dark and I know the channel marker buoys in the run had been moved, I thought it would be a good idea ( incorrectly as it transpired ) to erase my older track out from Christchurch in order to get a good one to come back in on. We then found out just how foggy it was and I realised it was a bad move. However, the saving grace was I had previously placed waypoints at each marker buoy position, so knew what way to steer and look. ( Unlike one boat we saw who was literally going around in circles with not a clue and I am sure nearly ran into SeaJay who was behind us ) Finding the buoys in the run was more difficult though as they had been moved. I knew we had to find them as we were heading out on HW and back in near LW and I needed a good track to follow back in. As it turned out, it was a good job I drew a good track out as when we returned we found all the buoys ( bar one ) had been removed for the winter Lesson learnt was : Think really carefully before removing your old tracks ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan Posted November 6, 2006 Report Share Posted November 6, 2006 they say learning properly involves some pain Paul........... despite 3 chart plotters I have more confidence in my track than the boyage in the harbour. I take care to travel as near as possible in the centre of small channels I expect to return through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob F Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 Perhaps some people decided to stop in the fog for fear of not knowing what was coming the other way??? That would be my main concern in the fog. It's all very well knowing where you are going by looking at your plotter, but if you can't see or hear (a yacht is pretty quiet) what's coming towards you it's perhaps more prudent to wait for clearer conditions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 as I said ear;ier - not questioning the seamanship only the direct issue of 'not being able to find the channel in fog' as Paul highlighted - his return in daylight was effectively the same problem as he couldn't see the buoys then either! can't have been that foggy or there would have been vessels making the appropriate sound signals.............. .............. the good news ablout yachts and fog is they tend to need their engines due to lack of wind - the bad news is that they are very quiet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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