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Here's what I did on my Saturday afternoon... 😁 Sadly no double salchow though. My back's bad enough as it is 🤣👍

So a quick update on this. I collected my refurbished turbo this morning... At a cost of £680+ vat, it’s not a bad job I reckon.. Four hours later and I’m at the point where all the mechanical bits are connected in what I hope are all the right places. Still have to fill the coolant back up and run up the engine which I will do tomorrow morning ! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday to Stuie Happy Birthday to you Have a good one Stuie. Jim

I had to break out the 3ft leverage bar to get the nuts done up this tight ! [emoji1303][emoji1783] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Me neither Nigel. First time for everything ! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Happy cake day Stuie, may see you out there tomorrow. Terry.

Have a great day and hope to see you, or hear you, out there tomorrow 🍷🍷

Happy Birthday Stuie 😄

Thanks guys - Colin has it exactly right.

Happy b-day young man, hope you have a great day , family and friends today and fishing tomorrow would be a good plan 😊 Take care, Best wishes Colin.

Happy birthday Nipper[emoji2958]

Have a goodun Stuie !!👍

Happy birthday Stuie.

many happy returns stuie have a good day mate

Cheers Charlie, in the end I took them out myself as no responsible adults wanted to come out!! 😀 A great day for them and Harvey stayed over and they were still chatting about it until they fell asleep so ticked the box. 👍

Dan and I could not resist the combination of a small tide and good forecast to try anchoring a wreck on Sunday Rowing out to the boat at 0700 there was no wind and a flat calm, fully loaded and off we go. the usual call on channel 6 gave us a brief chat to Martin on Madness looking for bait fish. Passing the chains we go up to 20 knots to the chosen mark, after recent trips I decided to not even try for mackerel, we would use frozen and catch some pout at the wreck. On the ebbing tide we were soon at the wreck. Big anchor down and settle on the tide. According to No 2 son I got lucky, we were 57 meters in front of the wreck in 40 metres of water. a couple of baits down on 12 oz leads, and we wait!! 😀😀 Fish on. That was the start of a busy session on the increasing ebb tide, mainly conger and one stroppy Tope. Baited feathers kept us supplied with poor cod and pout for bait and occasionally we got up to 2 rods each. 😎 The small tide meant that we could fish through, but did go up to our largest leads for about an hour [1 rod out each and Bacon Butties on] As slack water approached so did a Swanage diving boat called "Wight Spirit" The skipper asked me to call him on 6, "here we go" says Dan [remembering some history with dive boats] He asked me what our intentions were, when I told him we were going to re anchor for the flood, he asked if he could put divers down on slack. after I told him that it would ruin our fishing he moved off to another wreck close by, what a nice skipper, Many thanks we moved a little early and it took a while for the flood to start, no problem as we were now getting lots of medium size Tope. 😀😀 Just as the Lasagne was cooked and ready to eat, we swung into place and the congers started to feed again, catching and T barring weighty fish off, while trying to eat our late lunch is just the sort of Multi tasking we like. 😍 No monsters this time, the only one weighed went to 39lb in the net, allowing 2lb for the net, its a 92% specimen. But my god did it make a mess of the boat. It reminds us why we usually leave them outside of the boat. We had at least 10 eels each averaging 25/30 and half as many Tope that were a little smaller. Nice warm day with a dropping warm wind Just my sort of day.😍😎