Fishing

seadog wrote:

Caught some mackerel in 21,*
Plenty there but all so small,
Ate a few and gave the rest,
To my lovely sister, I was her guest.




*No21 anchorage south of the Breakwater.

I'll give 'e a wave later.

Too late twas the other day

Plenty of Mackerel about, we started catching (was a lot of smallun's) then we had a huge shoal right under the boat and the Bass were hammering them! By the time I had a Joey on a freeline we saw about 100 5-10lb Bass cruise past and away! I had a couple of nice Sardines to finish with, just about to fire up the Barby.

Sweet! I fished at first light and the fish were top to bottom. Mods any chance of splitting to fishing thread?

Was due out today but was tied up this morning and then the sou'westerly got up. There is still that Bass out there with my name on it, shout me if you see it.
Barby was bleddy great, like Spain last night, like Devon this morning, the stars last night were unbelievable, Maccy and Sardines with a fresh loaf of bread and a salsa verde with fresh herbs out of the garden mmmm.

Just read the last bit of your post out to the wife Iggy and she said "add a bottle of white wine in and life doesn't get any better than that"

Glad you enjoyed.

Tight Lines...

Bastards! All I can get is expensive stuff several days old and out of a freezer from Tesco or Morrison's!

Oh for a nice fresh bass or a superb mackerel not aware that it is out of the water yet.

I'm sorry I split this thread now. I had a nice home-made smoked salmon quiche with local salad. It was good but .......

Nick Wall wrote:

Just read the last bit of your post out to the wife Iggy and she said "add a bottle of white wine in and life doesn't get any better than that"

Glad you enjoyed.

Tight Lines...

Drinking and barbies, goes without saying.

At last a proper thread, cheers Iggy hope to see you some day.

You too, are you Dog the bounty hunter in real life?

I could have been if I hand't been born in Plymouth and gone to sea.
Why are have you skipped bail?

I want fish plz.

seadog wrote:

I could have been if I hand't been born in Plymouth and gone to sea.
Why are have you skipped bail?

SSShhh.

One forecast today is giving SW wind the other NW, I could get fishing if it was NW, it's a gamble though.

A mate of mine was out of Plymouth last night and had a huge channel Mackerel and a big Spurdog, lucky bastard.

Mackerel are superb if they are fresh. Can you eat spurdog?

Had fish n chips for tea. Don't know what fish it was but it wasn't cod. Still tasted ok with curry sauce poured over it.

Would have thought so, it's a cartiligenous fish the same as Bull Huss, otherwise known as Rock Salmon or Rock, got to keep it for 24hrs because it stores it's urea in its blood (which tastes of piss funnily enough) which breaks down in 24hrs and then the fish is lovely! Skate is in the same family btw.

Greenjock wrote:

Had fish n chips for tea. Don't know what fish it was but it wasn't cod. Still tasted ok with curry sauce poured over it.

'twas probably Lamb.

I used to eat a lotte (pun intended) of monkfish but it's a threatened species now. Huss is what I use instead if I see it fresh. But now I've read of the urea ..... not too fresh!!!!

At certain points in history, you always know where you were when it happened eg. Kennedy assassination (for the dinasaurs), Twin towers coming down, etc.

On a summer night in August 1997, we were on an all-night session at Slapton Sands. It was shite (as usual), dogfish, dogfish and more dogfish. But as always it was just an excuse to get wrecked under the guise of a fishing trip...

At first light, we decided to put the feathers out, and got stuck into the most rediculously large (and stationary) shoal of mackerel less than 30 yards from the shore. A veritable frenzy ensued, and before you knew it, the beach was literally jumping with mackerel. Six of us throwing out the feathers and pulling in a string of four, without fail, every couple of minutes. Quite an achievement when you've been drinking and doing bongs literally all night, I can tell you.

This went on for about 45 minutes.

Bin liners were then filled, and we made our way back to Plymouth. We had way more fish than we knew what to do with, so if you lived on Albert Rd Stoke at the time, and woke up to find a fresh mackerel under your windscreen wipers on your motor - we did the whole street, about 50-60 cars - yep, that was me.

Sorry.

To cap an eventful night, I got in and put Skysports news on, and this was scrolling along the bottom

NEWSFLASH: PRINCESS DIANA DIES IN PARIS CAR CRASH

A night I'll never forget, that's for sure!

Wasn't the crash caused because some fecker covered the windscreen with mackerel juice?

Highwayman wrote:

Wasn't the crash caused because some fecker covered the windscreen with mackerel juice?

The night she died I was off my tits on allsorts of substances, clubbing and doing a strange gyrating thingy that was supposed to be dancing. Every now and again the DJ would chat their usual shit, "Cmon let me hear you make some noise!" etc etc and the club would all go "whoop whoop!" or similar, and at about 4.30am the DJ cut the music down and said that Princess Diana was dead and everyone still shouted "whoop whoop!" and blew their whistles

It didn't sink in for quite a while and then everyone was hugging everyone else but all I wanted was the music back on

But it's ok because were all sorted for ee's n whizz, whistle posseeee...

I haven,t been fishing but this morning I was watching a Seal chase and catch a Garfish, it took 100yds but she nailed it. Then we were watching a couple of Basking sharks and we saw a trio of Chough,s and a Peregrine, the boats were out of Sennon and were fishing for Squid, is it worth having a go for Squid out of Plymouth?
Anyway, lovely morning, sea was oily calm and met some nice people on the cliff.