Steve S

Gastronaught: Alun, Steve on Sunday

Nice one Steve, bit of a struggle, well done.

4lb 9oz, it was a bit windy so tried my luck off the mooring. This was the best of them, in superb condition it put up a hell of fight on light gear.

Yay, very close! [emoji2]

Graham 8lb 1oz Thornback Steve 10lb 8oz Thornback It was hard work but we managed to get 8 or so mackerel at the start of the flood, after that it was head to a ray mark. We had 6 thornies in all and a bonus couple of bass along with a black bream and a few dogs but fortunately not the whole kennels. What was probably going to be the biggest ray Graham could not persuade off the bottom he'd gain a little line only for it to slam to the bottom again, eventually the hook pulled, suspect it was foul hooked. I hooked what I thought for all the world was a big bass only to see a thorny of around 8lb surface! First ray of the day, 8-14 thornback Graham's best ray 8lb 1oz Best of the ray 10lb 8oz, weighted on the pontoon to get an accurate weight.

Kingfisher - Chris, Mal, Stuie - Fishing Saturday My Babby- Norman, Dave, Brian - Fishing Saturday Tigerfish - Steve, Graham Shurvell - Probably Saturday based on the forecast

Thanks Dave, some of these sizes are shamefully small eg 18cm for Ballan Wrasse, huh!

That's a shame but inevitable, hope no hospitalisations result. At least that haven't panicked and raised the drawbridge.

It's an issue the world has not yet woken up to and it's going to make many more incidents that have currently occured to make government stick their hands in the pockets to spend the big money to do something about it. Even if the UK had a system like eLoran in operation that's not going to help ships coming in from overseas until they get here and of course the ships need to have it installed. It's a worldwide problem, there are multiple bad actors. GPS is so brilliant and easy to use traditional navigational skills pale in comparison, I'm sure most boating people are very out of practice (including me) if indeed they ever were skilled at it.

A biggun, looks in prime condition, well done

Aye Rob it was great to be out, long time no meet! Yes when I heard Jojo of the radio, I was like, could it be Rob, nah. Roll on the club meeting. The plaice fishing was a bit slow for me, got 10 and some small black bream, some would be keepers I guess if the stocks at home were low. The offshore wind really affected the presentation. A bonus 4 macks on the lazy line, rather to big for livebait but gave it a go, zippo, not a surprise. Finished with a few wrasse. We ate the macks. Diane was going to go but bailed when I got up a 7:30, she missed out, it was sooo nice out there.

nice turbo Kev, I remember that fog, down to 50m at times, not nice, unlike the turbot.

Aye Rob but it is a case of close but no cigar... Shows what is down there though.

We have had a great time thanks Jerry. Today was a bit interesting in the wind it was a good F6 at times. We were made very welcome in the island.

8lb 6oz of Alderney brill. Caught the day BEFORE the flattie comp!

Tigerfish results Ian Jones - brill 3lb 10oz and turbot 5lb Alun Jones - turbot 4lb Steve Scott - turbot 2lb Terry Bartell - turbot 1lb

All 3 boats made it, getting onto the island was a bit of a procedure but we here now having a beer at The Moorings, yay [emoji3] Reasonable number of flatties best a 8-6 brill!

Stainless Steve, I have used him, high quality work, hopeless timekeeping.

I am taking a tender Charlie, it's officially a 2 man job, 3 is possible plus luggage gulp! Thanks for sorting the admin out gents. Right ho, passports required!

I was expecting a wrasse and up this popped! [emoji2]

Nice bass, well done. Those unedibles may have been there for some time... My boat is fitted with a jabsco water puppy. Been going strong since 2006, can be left on running all day and often is. Water fills from the floor and exits from the top. It keeps everything alive. Alderney forecast is looking great, everything crossed it stays that way.

I have had no problems with the NHS app nor the Guernsey tracker. If you are being requested a photo then I don't think you are using the NHS app, it does not request that, you do need your NHS number. If you don't know it your local surgery should have it. The NHS app is quite handy, I was already using it, I can access my medical records, vaccinations going back a very long time, results of tests eg blood and medicines being taken. It took a few weeks for all that to appear as Southampton hospital have to enter the details, for those in Dorset it will be Poole/Bournemouth hospital. To the lucky ones who have absolutely no medical issues at all it would be less useful!

Terry had a 6-8 (I think) brill on Tigerfish last time we were over. I think that would have scooped the prize 😁

Good news for old gits! ok: https://www.visitalderney.com/inspire/coronavirus-covid-19-update/ confirms this. My aged crew are all fully jabbed so I guess it's back on, what a yoyo.

Yep, Weymouth / Portland a good plan B. Not sure about the tides, I thought the Shambles fishing better with a bit more tide, the 3rd July indicates 1.6 knots max. Any views on that?