Gummage

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I booked a launch and retrieve at Ridge wharf and sat/sun on a finger pontoon with a view to returning to wilts on Monday. I’m trying to avoid the late night tow home. Endeavour 3 has a 6 foot cuddy. I cut some board to throw across the benches. Me and an old Ag college friend Ian,resolved to have another boys weekend staying on the boat. The steep slip launch nearly went badly. I shall use a belay rope next time. Spent the day scratching a variety of the usual marks and jigging for mackerel for a few hours. I blanked but my guest caught a small bream on the drift and managed to foul Hook one Mackey on the feathers. As advised we found less weed on the Patch and Ian upped a lively conger. Intersting couple of minutes when Ian’s light tackle was slammed and bitten off then immediately this denizen snatched his heavier ledger which was nearby. Eventually all we got was a well chewed snood. (There’s a song in that). Got back to Ridge late evening and slept p

Hooky and I run the 20 ft version. We aren’t dissapointed. The man on fish locker reviews the Wilson against Arbors, Warriors and elites. Worth a look if anyone is considering a purchase. Pros and cons fairly explained.

Thanks for that Martin. Interesting that the adjustment is counterintuitive.!

I have a 20 ft cathedral hulled dory like Hooky’s. It did have an old mercury 75 2 stroke. It planed at about 24knots no problem( when there was not a problem ) but fuel consumption was about 2.8 miles per gallon. Last year I upgraded to a15 yr old mariner 90 4 stroke. I’m not looking for speed and power. It’s economy and reliability I’m looking for. On my one sea trial so far I found that it is constantly trying to pull you one way(right i think) at harbour speeds. At 4000 rpm it planed beautifully at about 22 knots and steered in balance. The installing engineer had put my old merc 75 prop on it and said to take it to top revs . If they exceeded 5800 we would need a different prop.. I went throttle up….things went badly……it leapt up. It needed trimming…..I reached down to trim it….it was pulling to the right again….hard round we went… frankly I nearly S**t myself but got it all closed down. So to this day I can’t tell you the top speed or revs. I am looking to install hydraulic steering. Im really pleased with the merc 90 but it needs more respect than its predecessor. Further points of note: It fits on the transom but is slightly too big for the well …meaning Unmodified I can’t clip it up for transport. If I stick with cable steering , mods will need doing to the side of the well as there is not enough room for the mechanism. Lastly ,I used to have it insured with the NFU but on renewal they refused to insure a pleasure fishing boat over 85 hp! I didn’t see that one coming.! Other insurers will deliver. .

As you know Colin, farm succession can be a thorny issue. I have told my kids the only thing that is a certainty is that if they ever work for a parking “service” they will be disinherited..

Sandstone rock Poole. I felt like Robinson Crusoe but then along came Philip

Sorry about the movie, I filmed it on iPad and it plays on my iPad. Can anyone tell me how change the-format

No haddies😪

eventually we were rescued by the boy’s sister’s best friend’s husband. Nobodyseemed bothered…..such is island life

Now the good bit..fearing we might be low on fuel we set off back…… yep…..we were right……we had totieoff for awhile in a beautiful sandstone rock pool IMG_0212.MOV

We were finally well into a steady stream of Mackerel from 3m to the bottom say 50 m. I tried to drop beneath them and got a codling. 40 odd mackerel were caught…..not bad size…..water was surprisingly warm..

……Nevertheless. Before very long at all, it was pb time for the boat and Jamie ….. Then Gummage was in. Not quite such an event but hey….

Got to the lighthouse on Bressay and chucked in on the drift. sea state was very good but wind and tide combined to make it a bit swift. Also tide was Ebbing which was not deemed favourite….nevertheless……

No tackle. Bags……just weights 12 oz and blingy feathers The boys were apprentices of the Molotov boat yard. They decided they wanted to take up fishing so they found some scrap aluminium and built a boat..like you do!

So Swindon Paddington , Paddington Edinburgh,meet up with lifelong friend , now captain Andy Powis and offto A.Bardeen and the overnight ferry to Lerwick to meet his twin Sons Jamie and Callum. we have a bit of rough shooting and fishing in mind.. Todaywith the windin the north was an ideal opportunity to get after Cod and Haddock. Fished deep water on the Bressay side of the channel south of Lerwick

I can relate to that. Where is this place?

Hooky, lguess your scales may still have somebody second hand value.

Yep , I do cows. If yo want to get Milking a cow off your bucket list, I’m your man.🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄!

Already got one! Don’t need any milk either thanks.