Maverick Martin

Congratulations Jim, I know how proud you must be. I've just come back of holiday and spent 10 glorious days with 3 of my grandchildren. Words cannot express the feeling you get when a 13, 16 and 18 year old grandchild enjoys spending time with you.

Well done on persevering and making the most of what sounds like a borderline day. On the golf point the world is full of t*ats, it seems all were put here to annoy us with most being successful 😬

I bet the pilot boat was doing more than the speed limit and even if he wasn’t speeding his wash would have nearly been as bad as my boat at 10 knots through the water

So just to confirm for the benefit of everyone, if a pan pan is called the coastguard will assume you are safe and request you attempt to find a friendly or commercial tow. In the event that the cg see you cannot secure a tow they may elevate the call to a mayday and task the lifeboat, the clue is in their name, they are there to protect life when in danger which is exactly what happened here. Well done bob on managing your situation as you did, text book actions.

Oh how I love being pretty much retired. Us semi or full on retirees can please ourselves (almost) what we do and when we do it. So happens that the weather man said Friday is going to be a good day, after pontificating for a moment or to and along with Mrs B's wise words of why don't you just man up and get out there a plan started to appear. Messaging back and forth with Mal (must learn to make phone calls as much easier) it was decided to go out on the 7:30 bridge and concentrate on inshore stuff. The first port of call was a bank just off of Ballard about a mile off where we were hoping to get a ray or two. The plan fell by the wayside as we were inundated with small to average 1lb Bream which was nice but frustrating that nothing else had a chance or look in. The moment baits hit the deck then rattle Bream were on the rag and squid baits. We decided to move approx 3 miles offshore to look for bigger stuff. The mark I suggested used to hold a larger stamp of Bream and so it did with fish up 1.75lb so not quite what we were looking for. The tide got up and the anchor tripped which caused a few moments one of which was one of my Kenzakit 6-12lb rode getting stuck in and crack the top 75mm broke off Shite. We took this opportunity to move again as Mal was becoming desperate for a Ray. Anyways we re-anchored to the 50/50ish banks with fish from the off. first drop and almost instantly was a Bas, I must have planted the bait on its head as I never even put the rod in the holder it was straight on. Only small maybe 1.5lb at best but a good start. Not as busy as the inshore mark but we had several rays of which only one was landed a blonde of probably 8/9lb but nice to see. I was into a good fish which was stripping line from my 20lb class Kenzaki and ABU 7000 synchro reel but unfortunately after a couple of mins it bit through the trace line (oh pooh) and so it continued. Al in all the weather was as good as the forecast if not better, the sun was out, the sky was blue and the fish were playing. Such a crack being out with Mal, I loved it, here's to the next time IMG_0022[1].MOV IMG_0026[1].MOV

Apologies from me as I'm on anniversary duties

Not a lot of good asking me Graham as I rarely get out myself although I hear it’s hit and miss. It Is large tides at the moment so I will be fishing inshore today unless it’s very flat which I doubt. Good luck if you do venture out

Love it Graham. Good to see youngsters enjoying themselves

I would concur

Nice report Mark Great to hear you had a few fish and like you say hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Space now taken

As above crew space available for this coming Wednesday, probably just an inshore trip Post here, message or call me if interested

At the moment Jerry Cobbs Quay are a mile away from £1.176 As you say monitor on every fill and change if necessary

send an email to Richard Orchard as in the leaflet loaded by Oli. Richard is very responsive

I now have an account with Certas and had my first bill with them which was charged as above so loads cheaper than anywhere else in the harbour that I know of. If you have a diesel boat its a no brainer to open an account but unfortunately they do not do petrol. The other benefit is no appointment necessary and available 24/7

Several people have posted their pictures in the gallery, if you want them to enter photo of the month please post them here as we cannot like them in the gallery

Good effort Mal but maybe the tides were to small?

Jim he’s based in tenby however if he trails down here good advice

glad you all had a good day and the weather mostly played ball

Excellent news Charlie, let’s hope you have more success than last year

I Wouldn't know Oli but do let us know, your findings would interest several of us Martin

Well done colin you were exactly where we wanted to be on Saturday however dads army also known as PMVS cane along and needed there mister importance fix and moved us on. That said we had no bites in that area so moved off to Hamworthy. My largest fish was 15oz but at least it was the target species

See you out there Greg

I will be fishing the Bream comp on Madness this coming Saturday along with Jim. We have room for one other club member. Pm or call me if interested 07771748486

I'm interested and may be able to drag veronica along as well