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I would head inland As soon as you mention stainless fabrication around the coast and the price goes up by 20%. I had a roof rack made for

It seems the ledge is teaming with large breams. Got to get out soon

You should be grateful you are not being charged both .....

To catch some fish ................. Sorry ...........

Don't know what they are called, but you are right, they are dame tasty.

I did have a blonde to my rod and hook, just that someone else thought the fish was on his tackle when we tangled up.

Congratulation on your maiden voyage. Plenty to learn but what an experience. Wishing you lots of fun for both the family and fishing.

After some more blonde and conger on the 9 miles bank again. 4 blondes, 2 congers and 5 spur dog on the boat between 5 of us. Largest blonde just under 20, Conger to 40 and spurday to 12. Off day for me, I caught bugger all, although the largest blonde to my name thanks to Colin who reeled it in on his rod for me while it had my hook in its mouth . It took a whole cuttle head.

Maccy have arrived, tope and bass can't be that far behind. Nice fishing.

Very nice fish, can't wait to get out.

How old is your Shetland, someo the older one used the washing line and still do if haven't been changed already. The teleflex has an extra length sticking out while the washing line has a spiral cone thingy.

Guess the bream does like a fair bit of tide then. Nice fish and congrate on pb.

Jack, I found that only the larger beam will take squid head, the smaller one doen't have the mouth. Try cutting the head into 2 halve.

A nice pair.

Just wondering, what happens to all those millions of lead we lose over the years? As they don't rust, do they just sit at the seabed?

Out with Andy of Silver Spray today. Target species are pollocks and congers. Didn't do too well with pollocks but managed 4 congers to 40 lbs. 10 pollocks on the boats, largest 14lb, from a wreck 2 hours from old harry.

Surely with such a small outboard, the power required to crank it would't be that much?! My guess is any old battery will do the job. End of the day even if the battery fails, 15hp is quite easily pull start ( you should try doing it on a 100hp)

There was an extensive thread on battery about a year or 2 ago, try searching for it. A car battery is for start up, so good for lots of cranking, while a leisure battery is for slow drawing like caravaning. A marine one is like bit of both and 5 times more expensive. Most ppl here use the leisure type as they are cheap to buy and cheap to replace, especially if you go for 3 years waranty one and keep the receipt.

Do you actually want a marine battery or just a battery to ue in the boat? A marine battery will cost you close to

Mine was, I had mine wired directly to the second battery with an inline fuse, so even on the drive mine would pumped water from time to time. Can't see the point of having a bilge pump without an auto switch. The pump was also wired via a switch, so either the auto switch kickes in or it could be switched on to pump water.

I used to have a bilge pump in the hull and a big bilge pump wired with a ciggie plug for emergency, luckily I never needed to use it

What's a stern gland? It's frightening how quickly can a boat sink .

i am I know you do ..... XXXXXXXXX Kam

What's looking good?

Great fish Dave.