Mr Fish
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The Jolly (Gay) Boys Boat group got back together on Saturday for a long awaited bream trip out of Beer, with the hope of a few bigger autumn bream among them.
@Ollieollie and @BlackLugsMatter travelled down the night before and stayed on some dodgy campsite.
They’ll have to do their own report but Lugs showed us what happened on the dolly and it wasn’t pretty… ?
@Stone travelled overnight and played with his sex toys at Seaton apparently, gaining his PB restraining order…
@Christurner and I were civilised and met up at @Tatunka joe ’s place for the drive to Beer.
Beer at dawn(ish)
We’d got lucky as Tat had managed to book a rare free day with Stu aboard Orca.
After Rich (Stone) had dragged his international travel luggage across the beach and moved bits of old timber around for the gravity assisted shingle bank launch, we were off.
No mackerel showing initially so Stu didn’t waste time and we were off to the bream grounds.
The boys will forgive me if the chronological order is wrong but it was a little slow to start, but as the chum worked it’s magic and the initial tide flow eased, Chris had a bream, I started to get the odd mackerel on the bottom, Ollie had a good red gurnard.
Rich caught a dogfish.
The floodgates opened and a steady trickle of bream came on board, interspersed with some very chunky mackerel, more dogs, a few straps (we mostly let Rich catch those), a thornback, a good red gurnard for Rich, a real variety of species.
The bream must have been patrolling down there because we’d all be in, then it would slow, then a few more came, and so on.
If I’ve got these mixed up, someone can correct me, but Ash (Lugs) had a very nice 2lb 11 fish, Chris had one of 2lb 8, I had a 2, or thereabouts, we didn’t weigh that.
Sorry, don’t seem to have Chris’s one.
A few more pics…
Oh yes, cracking weather and conditions too, once the morning clouds cleared off.
As low water approached, the bream bites slowed and Tat decided to have a go with a slow jig - he was glad he did!
Within minutes he hooked a very rare visitor to these shores, a bonito tuna!
Never seen one before myself, except on the odd rare Facebook post every couple of years when a lucky angler might get one, or an amberjack perhaps.
Tat was made up, his fish of the summer I expect!
It was also a boat first and record, of course.
In fact, shortly after we broke another boat record - I reeled in the biggest grey gurnard the skipper had ever seen, 12 ounces!
He was lightly hooked and went back.
Rich had a second thornback ray, a nice sized male.
As the tide began to flow again, the bream bites dropped off and we’d all had plenty anyway, so it was time to try a bit of drift fishing with lures….
@Ollieollie and @BlackLugsMatter travelled down the night before and stayed on some dodgy campsite.
They’ll have to do their own report but Lugs showed us what happened on the dolly and it wasn’t pretty… ?
@Stone travelled overnight and played with his sex toys at Seaton apparently, gaining his PB restraining order…
@Christurner and I were civilised and met up at @Tatunka joe ’s place for the drive to Beer.
Beer at dawn(ish)
We’d got lucky as Tat had managed to book a rare free day with Stu aboard Orca.
After Rich (Stone) had dragged his international travel luggage across the beach and moved bits of old timber around for the gravity assisted shingle bank launch, we were off.
No mackerel showing initially so Stu didn’t waste time and we were off to the bream grounds.
The boys will forgive me if the chronological order is wrong but it was a little slow to start, but as the chum worked it’s magic and the initial tide flow eased, Chris had a bream, I started to get the odd mackerel on the bottom, Ollie had a good red gurnard.
Rich caught a dogfish.
The floodgates opened and a steady trickle of bream came on board, interspersed with some very chunky mackerel, more dogs, a few straps (we mostly let Rich catch those), a thornback, a good red gurnard for Rich, a real variety of species.
The bream must have been patrolling down there because we’d all be in, then it would slow, then a few more came, and so on.
If I’ve got these mixed up, someone can correct me, but Ash (Lugs) had a very nice 2lb 11 fish, Chris had one of 2lb 8, I had a 2, or thereabouts, we didn’t weigh that.
Sorry, don’t seem to have Chris’s one.
A few more pics…
Oh yes, cracking weather and conditions too, once the morning clouds cleared off.
As low water approached, the bream bites slowed and Tat decided to have a go with a slow jig - he was glad he did!
Within minutes he hooked a very rare visitor to these shores, a bonito tuna!
Never seen one before myself, except on the odd rare Facebook post every couple of years when a lucky angler might get one, or an amberjack perhaps.
Tat was made up, his fish of the summer I expect!
It was also a boat first and record, of course.
In fact, shortly after we broke another boat record - I reeled in the biggest grey gurnard the skipper had ever seen, 12 ounces!
He was lightly hooked and went back.
Rich had a second thornback ray, a nice sized male.
As the tide began to flow again, the bream bites dropped off and we’d all had plenty anyway, so it was time to try a bit of drift fishing with lures….
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