Gummage

Remind me what date please.?

How did it go Charlie?

Wot he said😀

Terry! thanks for a most enjoyable day,we were never short of anything to talk about and never short of anything to do. Nifty rigs , your plaice rigs and they catch Mackey too.. The catering was much appreciated…..I’ve got to have a go at the cold smoking. Look forward our next challenge Gummage

Terry is your place filled. ? I could be available and need to learn new tricks.

After some unsuccess off Ballard we tried drifting the ledge off durleston. Lou and James caught mackerel there and one red gurnard. live baiting gave me the thrill of a big fish on! Six foot from the boat I saw a flash of silver and then itpower dived and spat the bait out unharmed except for suspected PTSD. Went to 5px50s planning to deploy our secret weapon . Mr ricks had given us some of his trout offal chum. With the tide moving hard we spent a fruitless hour there. Tried to do it again close in at Ballard and dissapointingly had no bites . A drift further out and a few in the swash all blanked. Final thoughts… get rid of all the rusty hooks.

Yeah that will be last plaice for Gummage but we had a great dayDaughter Lou haled an enchanting rock (her first) followed by a crab and then had a tussle with something lively, well never know what. Her boyfriend James discovered a secret wrasse mark!Is it a Ballan? What is the deciding feature.?

Plaice. Report to follow when I don’t feel completely b******d!

Endeavour 3 is hopefully going out tomorrow. I’ll likely have a crew of unsigned renegades from wilts so just me entering. Going back to the herring grounds!

Or swap it for gummage’s original cider.? (Sorry should have been in our commercial section)

I’ll be looking out for you when I get down Dale.

I’m going to have nightmares now.

I see Mal mentioned my dunking in his report so I’ll explain. When they put those yellow buoys in at Baiter, did they dredge it a little bit? I tied to one next to where the slip is about 3 ft deep and thought it was the same under the boat. What happened next was reminiscent of that famous puddle scene in the vicar of dibley.😬 Actually it didn’t quite go above my chest waders until iclimed my rope ladder to get back aboard and found I couldn’t do it without leaning back! I got aboard with a litre of water in each boot .Yuck.

Sign me up for IT training!

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A photo of a strap conger seems not to have pasted there

Endeavour3 ‘s new motor was booked in for its first service on Tuesday.James and I took her down . I’d guesstimated she had run 20 hrs. Left home at six and unhitched her at Holes Bay Marine at 8.45. Went and had a coffe with Jerry Shutter who has a nice bungalow overlooking holes bay. Went to the quay for bait and breakfast. Soon got the call “she’s ready”. How many hours did I think she had done? The engineers chip read 19.6. Good guesstimating! (Using navionics track records) Beautiful day but a force3 to four ( all flags flying well) boded dodgy sea state . We figured if it’s too rough we’ll fish in the harbour but were told that the Harbour Master isn’t allowing fishing in the harbour because of the oil spill . We spent 40 mins pulling lures by the training bank . Some waves over a meter were coming through so I stayed at the helm mostly. We quit that and ran for the lee afforded in Swanage . There I tried to find top speed but at 5 K rpm we were touching 20 knots and slamming uncomfortably. Top speed is for another day. Lunched on a conservation buoy there. Last time we had no tea, this time we had no sandwiches😩. After an hour we felt the wind was dropping and there were less whitecaps at old Harry so we made a track to the outer patch. Anchoring went well and we fished spot on our desired mark. we fished 3 hook flappers with squid capped worm ,and also bunged a whole squid over for good measure. It wasn’t too uncomfortable. It was around low tide and stuck it for an hour letting out another 20m of anchor line to change the scenery. No bream action so after an hour or so we upped tackle and look who was chewing our squid! Small trophy no blank! So on to Bournemouth to chase plaice . In a series of drifts I caught 1 and james had four . Hurrah. Could have stayed longer but wanted to attend boat club AGM. We thought we’d take th boat to Oakdale Conservative club and find a leafy lane to park it on. Sat nav took us half a mile up a single track road called Darby’s road north only to find the road blocked with iron bars. There we were ambushed by the locals . A very friendly couple who helped us unhitch the boat and manhandle it up their drive to effect a U-turn. Oakdale con club is half a mile away on another Darby’s road . Using the postcode got us to a cul de sac nearby where less friendly natives watched us do a turn in distain . Fortunately there was a leafy lane to park on nearby. And eureka ! The con club. Sorry we were late Mr chairman. Congrats Mal and thanks and respect Brian. Still we heard a talk on Match angling…..quite a different kind of day out. Sent from my iPhone

My wife has got an HGV licence so it’s nota vein of humour I can readily mine in our house.😕

Looks rather like the procedure adopted by me when I tried to pay for Grahams parking at the Vitality the other night…… 1..read sign 2…let the reality set in that you can’t use cash 3….or a card! 4…photograph the fuzzy square thingy 5…try to down load the justpark app 6…. Get asked for a password that I otherwise never use 7…..ring wife, does she remember it, no 8…ring son 9….get him to go to the office and find said secrets book 10.. enter password 11.. get congratulated 12..asked for phone number.. 13..and email address. 14. get asked for location code 15,..enter how many hours I want to stay 16…enter the 16 digit card code…in the dark 17.. find my glasses 18..do I want to park wu56 ….. the farm truck? 19…no 20….the wife’s car? Spooky how it knew them! 21….no 22…register a new vehicle 23..yes hurray 24..repeat item 12 25…repeat item 13 26….repeat item 14 27…get told I’m trying to download the same app twice 28..app freezes 29….gave up the rest of the evening went rather well we felt!

How long does it take navionics to update this kind of stuff?

Is there a waterproof multi pin plug where the electric services come to the motor. Does it need a clean and the wd40 treatment?

Look forward to seeing you out and about Pete .

Plenty of useful secrets there, I’m going to get a “finarlie” for my boat!

I don’t know about brave. Stupid probably. It’s the roads that scare me. I nearly got shipwrecked in a big puddle outside fordingbridge on the way home!