Hi all, I am new to this forum so this will be my first post. Yesterday me and my dad managed to get out on our 16ft Orkney fastliner launched from baiter. We headed out to a few wrecks that we had spotted on the chart software we have at home. Drove over a few of them to see if anything would show on the fishfinder but only very slight undulations....thought we would give it a go anyway. Out went the anchor with a big bag of mackerel heads and guts..prepared the evening earlier The tide was racing through and I could only just hold bottom. I had a dogfish and what I though were probably bream bites. However the tide strengthened further and neither of us could even get the weight to the seabed, so we moved off to Bournemouth pier. The fishfinder was a new bit of kit so we were looking to find a reef that, from what we've been told, is somewhere directly from the end of the pier. We did find a small bump on the seabed but unfortunately couldn't get it again to mark the GPS coordinates we fished for a bit in the general area- one bite on ragworm and a few scad/mackies on feathers was all there was so we moved on towards southbourne. We went over to the site of a sunken hovercraft on the way but couldn't find it. Closer to the shore we drifted for a while, then went in search of southbourne rough as I have heard this can be a good mark. Nothing on the fishfinder that we could see though. As we saw hengistbury head in the distance we though we may as well try Christchurch ledge as it wasn't too far. A small cluster of boats where fishing so we anchored up just on the northern edge of them. A few mackie were around as well as small pollack and pout which where taking the micro feathers- tried using them as live bait but nothing came from it. I did however catch a 2lb 4oz wrasse on a big ragworm, which but up a really good fight on my 20lb class outfit. Apart from another wrasse that was it so we moved on heading in the general direction of home. We stopped off at one of the Bournemouth beaches in search of plaice of which there were plenty. We had 6 in total ranging from around 10oz to 1lb and a bit, great fight for their size and should also be great tasting!
It was a beautiful day to be out and test all the new gadgets and repairs that we have done to the boat....and some fish about to! Thanks for reading, I see now I may of made this post a bit wordy...but ah well!
