Contact:russ@reelfoto.comHad a 120 gig Solid State drive fitted as a boot drive. After all the hype I suppose I expected too much. The machine is faster, especially using Photoshop which is the main reason for fitting it and it boots faster, but not as much as I expected. Some of the software including my Xara program for this website threw a wobbly, necessitating a re-instal. No doubt over the coming weeks I will find other wobblies until it all settles down again... hey ho.There are fish outside on the wrecks when it is possible to nip out between the gales and utter naff weather... the only good thing is that the temperature hasn’t gone through the floor... don’t like the cold. The Wrasse fishing should be good this year if we can avoid a significant temperature drop. There are Plaice showing already, I have been told your can read a newspaper through them at the moment, but a week or two more and the main body of fish should show. So so early, but the snowdrops, primroses and daffs are showing in my garden. Spring is just around the corner it seems.if it all works out we will fish for a few hours on Saturday. Sunday DB3 is being lifted out to have her bottom jet washed and we will take the opportunity to fit new anodes. But the anti-foul is not going on till late spring so it is at its srongest when the weed starts to grow in earnest.My back is getting better every week. i suppose its about 95% there now. I have started training again to get myself properly fit for the season. Curry tonight... excellent!!!Fished the River Tamar with RW on Saturday. The place we wanted to go there were two boats there ahead of us occupying the prime spots, so we pootled back down the river to just off the Ballast Pond where it was interesting to see another two boats anchored just on the drop off, which is a bit further out than we usually fish. So we then drifted the Eagle pit where there was a lot of fish marking up on the sounder about 15 feet off the bottom. Cod was the presumption... but if they were cod, they were not hungry. Hey ho... one small whiting and back to the bar for a warming Guinness. It wasn’t a serious day out, the engine had a good warm through, checked everything was working properly ready for a deep trip. Sunday morning bright and early DB3 was lifted out and pressure washed in the slings. Renewed the anodes, we will do the anti foul end of May ready for the start of the weed growing season!!Bill and Ian had a deep run on Saturday. Pollack to 18lb and a number of Cod. A commercial boat dropped a net right in front of the boat as they were fishing effectively cocking up their drift... I’ll bet the air was blue in Bill’s cabin. What can you say... total ignorance and bad manners. Courtesy of the sea... what’s that??Re-loaded my reels with the new Tuff line last week. I think it is the best braid ever. Not too stiff and takes a knot perfectly. We checked it out at the end of last season on some good fish which included a 12-8 Bass and found it to be the best Tuff line ever. Good one.Don’t like this cold one bit.....had a day down at Innis with CR last Tuesday. We caught a couple of fish each, believe it or not fishing buzzers left to drift around in the wind. The fish were in the shallows around mid day where the sunlight was maybe lifting the temperature a degree or two. What a joy it was to see the line slide away with a feisty two pound rainbow pulling your string. When it got cold again I tried a sinking line and pulled something ugly for an hour just to keep warm as much as anything... but the fish didn’t want to play with the lures anyway, so we knocked it on the head at 1430 and bimbled home. This weekend at Innis is a heat of the England Bank fishing selection. Dave John’s is well pleased with that. Last week saw a 10.5lb rainbow caught by a local angler so my guess is that Dave has released a few of the monsters he keeps in the top lake to give the competition boy’s a fright!! With 10 degree’s predicted for next Wednesday onward might well be on for a return visitation!! Don’t think many have been to sea this week, most days on a force four to five Easterly prediction and cold with it. Some good tides at the beginning of the week so next weekend on the neaps the wrecks will no doubt be netted to buggery. But if the temperature does get up to ten degree’s and the winds are light, might just be tempted to take a look outside and deep... wouldn’t that be fun...
Contact:
russ@reelfoto.com
Had a 120 gig Solid State drive fitted as a boot drive. After all the hype I suppose I
expected too much. The machine is faster, especially using Photoshop which is the main
reason for fitting it and it boots faster, but not as much as I expected. Some of the
software including my Xara program for this website threw a wobbly, necessitating a re-
instal. No doubt over the coming weeks I will find other wobblies until it all settles down
again... hey ho.
There are fish outside on the wrecks when it is possible to nip out between the gales and
utter naff weather... the only good thing is that the temperature hasn’t gone through the
floor... don’t like the cold. The Wrasse fishing should be good this year if we can avoid a
significant temperature drop. There are Plaice showing already, I have been told your can
read a newspaper through them at the moment, but a week or two more and the main
body of fish should show. So so early, but the snowdrops, primroses and daffs are
showing in my garden. Spring is just around the corner it seems.
if it all works out we will fish for a few hours on Saturday. Sunday DB3 is being lifted out to
have her bottom jet washed and we will take the opportunity to fit new anodes. But the
anti-foul is not going on till late spring so it is at its srongest when the weed starts to grow
in earnest.
My back is getting better every week. i suppose its about 95% there now. I have started
training again to get myself properly fit for the season. Curry tonight... excellent!!!
Fished the River Tamar with RW on Saturday. The place we wanted to go there were two
boats there ahead of us occupying the prime spots, so we pootled back down the river to
just off the Ballast Pond where it was interesting to see another two boats anchored just
on the drop off, which is a bit further out than we usually fish. So we then drifted the
Eagle pit where there was a lot of fish marking up on the sounder about 15 feet off the
bottom. Cod was the presumption... but if they were cod, they were not hungry. Hey ho...
one small whiting and back to the bar for a warming Guinness. It wasn’t a serious day
out, the engine had a good warm through, checked everything was working properly
ready for a deep trip.
Sunday morning bright and
early DB3 was lifted out and
pressure washed in the slings.
Renewed the anodes, we will
do the anti foul end of May
ready for the start of the weed
growing season!!
Bill and Ian had a deep run on
Saturday. Pollack to 18lb and
a number of Cod. A
commercial boat dropped a
net right in front of the boat as
they were fishing effectively
cocking up their drift... I’ll bet
the air was blue in Bill’s cabin.
What can you say... total
ignorance and bad manners. Courtesy of the sea... what’s that??
Re-loaded my reels with the new Tuff line last week. I think it is the best braid ever. Not
too stiff and takes a knot perfectly. We checked it out at the end of last season on some
good fish which included a 12-8 Bass and found it to be the best Tuff line ever. Good
one.
Don’t like this cold one bit.....had a day down at Innis with CR last Tuesday. We caught a
couple of fish each, believe it or not fishing buzzers left to drift around in the wind. The fish
were in the shallows around mid day where the sunlight was maybe lifting the temperature
a degree or two. What a joy it was to see the line slide away with a feisty two pound
rainbow pulling your string. When it got cold again I tried a sinking line and pulled
something ugly for an hour just to keep warm as much as anything... but the fish didn’t
want to play with the lures anyway, so we knocked it on the head at 1430 and bimbled
home. This weekend at Innis is a heat of the England Bank fishing selection. Dave John’s
is well pleased with that. Last week saw a 10.5lb rainbow caught by a local angler so my
guess is that Dave has released a few of the monsters he keeps in the top lake to give the
competition boy’s a fright!! With 10 degree’s predicted for next Wednesday onward might
well be on for a return visitation!!
Don’t think many have been to sea this week, most days on a force four to five Easterly
prediction and cold with it. Some good tides at the beginning of the week so next weekend
on the neaps the wrecks will no doubt be netted to buggery. But if the temperature does
get up to ten degree’s and the winds are light, might just be tempted to take a look outside
and deep... wouldn’t that be fun...
