bootlegger Posted May 26, 2007 Report Share Posted May 26, 2007 Simply Red (aka Wots the Point) initial refit was finally completed for the worst weekend of the year and her sea trials were completed in a force 6/7 with 6 foot swells. After kitting her out we took part in last weekends Species Hunt, well it was the Dolphins Bream Comp for everyone else. So this weekend was our first chance to take her out to some marks of our own after inheriting some 200 new ones from last year. After bombing over to Bournemouth Pier we discovered the boat will happily cruise at 10-11 knotts at just under 2,000 revs and hit 13 knotts plus later when we gave it the hammer, problem is anyone in the cockpit at that speed gets wet. So a pleasant Friday evening was spent grabbing some mackeral and some tub gunard before an early start today. We left at 7am and after tanking up we travelled out intially to Dancing Ledge, we were one of only three boats initally on the mark but during the morning we were joined by another 18 boats. After a few bream (where were you last weekend?( they were here it's just we weren't.)) We decided to move off to one of our new marks to drift a hole between Swanage and the Whitehouse Grounds. Total result of the day..... Numerous Bream up to 2lb + Numerous LSD Blonde Ray 6lb Thornback Ray 15.5 lb (Dan's PB) Wrasse Mackeral (both caught on bare hook recovering Bream rigs) Baits were rag tipped with squid and fresh Mackeral. Absolute cracking day, downside is that after Monday stuck in London for three weeks. If you see Simply Red before then it's either being skipperred by Dan or iit's been nicked. Photos to follow.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootlegger Posted May 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2007 A few pics which might interest, or not as the case maybe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootlegger Posted May 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2007 A small blonde, but perfectly formed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootlegger Posted May 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2007 Bang goes this years foreign holiday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnasher Posted May 26, 2007 Report Share Posted May 26, 2007 some nice fish there mate! The Blonde looks like a little smalleyed ray to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Fox Posted May 27, 2007 Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 (edited) 18 boats on Dancing Ledge sounds a little unusual to me. Wonder if the comments on here have contributed to its popularity? Sounds like a brilliant day all the same. I thought the thornback looked more like an undulate to me.... http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aquarium/pages/undulateray.html but a lovely fish all the same. What depth did you catch them in ? We might have seen you out there and never realised - we must really get one of those pennants... We fished off Swanage, and over the Whitehouse Gounds for a time, but didn't see any mackerel - and no ray! We had a stack of bream too, to almost 2 lb, a handful of dogs and some chunky wrasse, but nothing interesting. Saw a boat fishing live sandeel for bass, (though saw nothing landed) which persuaded me to fish a storm shad for a while, but without success. Mike, Carol and George Edited May 27, 2007 by Mike Fox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootlegger Posted May 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 Both rays were taken in about 55 feet of water on the drift using pennell rigs baited with mackeral. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootlegger Posted May 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 Take both your points on the ID of the fish, the Thornback does appear to be an undulate and the blonde appears to be a small eyed ray. Therefore last years cod was probably a bass, my bream was likely to have been an eel and so on. Thanks anyway....... I have booked mark the aquariam site to help me in the future... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnasher Posted May 27, 2007 Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 get the fish recorded, especially the big undulate mate, ive never had one, and one like that would make me very happy. Yours is a decent specimen!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootlegger Posted May 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 I think the reason why Dancing Ledge was so popular was because of last week and the posts, but we were lsitening to the VHS and Shelia's Promise and the Green Longliner charter boat (whose name escapes me) were chatting that they had tried a local wreck and had had no joy and in the morning there was a bit of stiff Northerley blowing but on a neap tide and the protection of the clifs it was no problem fishing the mark so it was a combination of both, but at about 1pm when we moved off including ourselves there were 19 boats fishing the mark, we noticed a Jeanneau,a Quicksilver and an Arvor drifting in the Swanage Bay and Ballards area and one other boat fishing the Whitehouse grounds, but the weight of boats west of Poole appeared to be around Dancing Ledge and Kimmeridge areas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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