a slow day

[lady jane]

we anchored up on the ledge at seven and were straight into fish for about an hour but as the tide turned the fish tap was turned off.

next move was onto a mark near totland and straight away the starrys blessed us with there presence.

so to sum it up some hectic and some very quiet times but still a good day to be out on the water.

bream just over 3 ilb

starrys 8 ish ilb

 

cheers andy

[Gnasher]

Good 2 see you out there andy, we had a pretty slow day, but finished with a few pout, lsd's and a couple of small hounds at the end. We stayed where we were but there was a lot of boat traffic, and we also saw a huge yacht ground out in hurst trap, it didnt look or sound pretty.

 

I'l give those numbers you sent me a bash next time and see how i do.

Edited May 10, 2008 by Gnasher

[Paul D]

We arrived at the ledge on Fugazi about the time the fish tap was turned off !

First rod down and I missed a good bream bite and then nothing for next 3 hrs

Gordon decided on a move to Southbourne Rough ( plenty of bream there but nothing huge ). Naturally as we set off for Southbourne Rough the boat alongside us hooked into a good bream - typical !

 

Lovely day to be afloat though and good fun fishing on Fugazi. Not sure if I will be fishing tomorrow as still looking for crew, so might take a rest.

 

 

[Coddy]

Bill and I decided to go out on Lady C this Saturday as it looked the best day.

 

Well I got the tide timings wrong and had to wait for the tide to float her on the moorings. :-(

 

The next problem occurred when we tried to cast off, as someone had moored their boat too close to mine just in front.

Tried to go astern but got the mooring anchor chain wrapped around the prop!!!!!!

 

I then spent the next hour freeing this off! Fortunately I did very little damage to the prop or leg (phew)

 

Anyway we eventually got away and head out to the local car park to see if we could get amongst the bream.

 

It seemed from the moment my rod went in I was getting bites and fish, on Bills side of the boat they were not too plentiful.

 

Anyway Bill got amongst the fish as well and we soon reeling in the bream going up to about 2.5lbs, in all we must have had 25+ between us.

 

I also managed to pull in 4 mackerel so another species for Lady C.

 

As the tide dropped so did the bites so we decided to move close in to Bournemouth beach. Blow me if I didn't go and get a Goby and a baby Tub gurnard.

 

Just to confirm the species of Goby here are some pictures http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/Coddy_02/0003-1.jpg http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/Coddy_02/0002-1.jpg http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o39/Coddy_02/0001-1.jpg

 

So what started a bad day for me ended up not a bad day fish wise.

 

Meet up with Frisky Fox on the Patch who managed some Bream plus a doggie but I am sure Mike will post a report.

 

Coddy

 

[Sinbad]

Nice report Dave!

I wished I was there too, but reading your post sounds like just an average day of problems, with a nice end to the story!!!!

 

Its always the same with a different boat, you only really learn by trying things out, hope you have better luck next time

 

Paul

[Mike Fox]

Dave,

Check out Black Goby (gobius niger) - looks spookily like one, and I've had several there overthe years!

 

Mike

[charlieannear]

Yeah, Rob and I had a couple of those last weekend too.

Ours were hooked through the head, as if they were just in the wrong place as the hook passed by them!