What a lovely day!, i felt for you guys who were stuck at home.
Loyal Royal launched at 7:15 in Lymington at low water- We got away with it- Just.
First stop was to the sconse buoy for live Mackeral as we were off to do some Bass fishing at Freshwater.
There were none at the buoy at all so the pressure was on!, we went round the corner hoping to catch them as we drifted with dead ones for the Bass.
The bait catching was incredibly tough but Mark saved the day when we finally got into them although they were all huge. It's always the same, when you want them to eat their small, when you want joeys, their huge.
Unfortunatley, we spent most of the flood getting bait and missed the best of the tide although i did manage a Bass of 3lb 4oz- Charlie can you put that one in the book please.
We then anchored for a bit during the slack and picked up 1000's of dogs and pout.
Back on the drift for the Ebb but we only had an hour or so as we had to get in before the water disappeared at the slip.
Mark lost a good Bass half way up when it spat his mackeral out which came up with teeth marks all over the tail and mid section- Heartache! A couple of my baits were sliced clean in half by tope but no fish caught. Perhaps we would have done better with smaller baits and or pennel rigs in the bigger ones.
A great day out overall
Paul J