Kingfisher 126

I went out on Wednesday with my eldest son James, we had a few bass to start with and one huge mackerel. The tide eased and the wind increased so we came in and anchored around the spoils, wind was beam on so a little uncomfortable but ok. 3” cut off the mackerel for bait fillets, the rest sent out as shark bait. We had bream, one lsd the first for a while, small tope, no rays but kept busy. The shark bait was hit by tope but not hooked, Bitten to the hook! 🫣 New bait sent out, but frozen mackerel not fresh. Huge squid were following the baits up and I suspect it was them that ripped the shark bait to bits. We decided to give the harbour a go for a gilthead, had everything but, plaice, bass, wrasse and black bream so called it a day. A decent day, kept busy with a variety of species. Sunday, myself and Blake decided we would have an early morning session as he had a football match to watch in the afternoon. Picked the bait up at 6.30 and off we go, picked a buoy up outside Salterns to see if a plaice or gilthead may be about. We had a run of small bass to about 1 1/2lb and loads of wrasse so decided to move around the back of the islands. Was cracking out of the wind, but just more small bass, Blake had one decent run with line being taken but missed it. Decided to move as bait was disappearing at a pace, so I said we would drift the ferry basin for the last hour. On the way as went over a hole it was full of fish so went back and drifted over it, more small bass but gave a bit of fun but not what we were looking for. Off we go and a few minutes later the exhaust alarm sounding, no way twice in three trips! 🫣😤 Never happened in all the years of owning the boat. Check strainer, no water but no weed, check impeller, all good. I took the pipe off pump and blew down the into the strainer and could hear the bubbles going outside the boat, very strange. Put it back together and a little drop of water from exhaust but not enough. So best to check what’s going on underneath on the intake, strip down to boxers and on the bathing platform, dip a toe and it doesn’t feel the 20+ degrees it’s showing on sounder. 😂😂 Blake offered to go in, nice offer but never going to happen. In I go and found a lump of weed like a wig attached to the intake. 👏👏 Blake started the engine to check everything was working, all good so swimming lesson came to an end. Off in as our fishing time was now passed, a quick washdown and home. Got home 5 mins before kickoff instead of an hour so no footy for Blake, but he had watched moby dick swimming around earlier. 😂😂 Hopefully not a third time lucky waiting. 😢 I’m starting to think this is a young man’s sport. 💪🏼💪🏼🎣🐟 Fishing Wednesday with eldest son, round of golf with second son on Friday, and fishing with youngest son on Sunday, a perfect week. 👍

I had the old impeller from when I did the engine rebuild so I thought I’d investigate how the inserts are fitted in to the rubber. As you can see the lefthand Jabsco insert is totally different to the one that has failed, and you can see why it failed!! 😤 It was supplied as a genuine Jabsco part but I have my suspicions as it doesn’t have a Jabsco number on it, or have Jabsco gone Chinese? Be aware if you change your engine impeller as it could be costly. I also have an exhaust temp alarm that goes off as soon as exhaust temp rises which happens before engine temp rises. Very simple to fit as after market kit.

Thanks for the report Mal spot on. A big thank you for Martin for being on call if required, benefit of being in the club. 👏👏 An ok day in the end, personally never seen the insert spin in an impeller before, I’m suspecting it maybe a copy and not a genuine Jabsco as it didn’t have Jabsco numbers on it, where as all the others I have do have.

Myself and Kev hatched a plan for a bit of bassing on the small tide then anchor over the slack water tide change. We had a few bass on the ebb when we got there, the tide was dropping away so dropped the anchor. The wind held us at an angle that was a pain but just about fishable. We had many congers from 18” to about 12lb and Kev got a bonus blonde ray of 11 1/2lb. When tide picked up we decided to try for bass again but it was very quiet. A nice day out with good company as we haven’t fished together for a while, thanks Kev. Always good to know club boats are around having a good day too.

Tea sorted for the pensioner. 👏

Kev with a decent blonde, been a while since he’s held one of them!

I have a laminated sheet with all the information on incase it’s not me making a call. Details of boat, name, numbers, life jackets, flares etc so anyone has an answer if asked.

For those who may be interested, the Sea Angling magazine has run the feature on our day out with Dave Lewis, 5 pages in total with good PR for the club. I can’t add the feature because copy rights but make sure it’s the Sept edition if it’s of interest. A nice comment about the harbour along the bottom of the cover. 👍

Hi Bob l will ring you no problem, my mobile ends in 279 so you know it’s me. 👍

Well done Martin, great report well done on helping out. if I help out grounded yacht I usually take a line from the mast lanyard so when you pull it lifts the keel. Always a tricky thing trying to unground boats, can cause damage to both boats, great effort though. 👏

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Hi Jim, Just watched this on the laptop and it's very impressive, well done great effort. 👍👋

Sorry to hear that Charlie, always a worry when things go wrong, finding the problem then getting the parts. Then there’s parting with the cash, that’s a guts ache regards leadtime. Give me a shout if cabin fever is getting the better of you, always welcome on board. 👍

A family day out but Blake fished the comp only one Gilthead at 14ozs. We did have an interesting time with some large smoothounds biggest 6/7lb. plenty of small bass, but we had a bonus species a silver eel, then ten minutes later I thought we had a strap conger but it was a huge silver eel. Weighed in at 2lb 4oz, well done Blake a cracker apart from the slime everywhere. 🫣 8 Bass, 4 Smoothounds, 2 Silver Eels, 1 Gilthead Bream. Comp Result. Blake - Gilthead Bream 14oz. Silver Eel new club record.