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| 12 lb Cod on a whole squid. |
Tuesday 8 January 2013
Jupiter's Moon
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Brilliant !
We motored out of the harbour and visted a mark a few miles off shore . Bites were immediate with Whiting , Pouting and Dogs virtually every drop down. Jeff managed a small Conger as well but no Cod so we upped the anchor and moved to another mark a bit further out in deeper water. again it was a fish a chuck with me getting a small conger plus the Doggies and Whiting. Then I managed to land my best ever Cod at 12lbs. What a result !
Thank to Margaret for the hypnosis and to Jeff for the trip out . When can I go again ?
Wednesday 2 January 2013
Seasick Dave....a thing of the past ?
Well, my sea boat fishing was brought to an early end about 15 years ago when I discovered that the sea plus a fishing boat plus my breakfast guarenteed a result ....the loss of one of the above ! Plus a great deal of misery on my part !
I used to run a sea fishing club at work .Our trips were very succesful and we made a regular excursion from Littlehampton on board the "Blue Badger" skippered by Mike Pratt or from Brighton on the "Colinjoy" .Great fun ! We even went further a field to Deal, Langstone and to Weymouth .
The old adage that "pride comes before a fall" springs to mind as I remember laughing at the poor sods in my party that felt seasick . Oh how I regret that now ! I fished ( oh and laughed at sufferers of the malaise ) for about 10 years till the day out of Langstone when it happened to me. God I felt ill ! I wanted to die . Can anything be worse than that ...i doubt it ?
I then moved to various seasickness remedies :eat ginger biscuits and drink orange juice ( the polite version of this remedy is that ginger settles the stomach and orange provides vitamin C and sugar , the reality is it tastes the same going up as it did going down !)various tablets which were great in preventing seasickness but made me sleep for a solid two days after taking them ! I had to be taken home and collect the car the next day ! I even tried some bands worn round the wrist ,oh and various herbal remedies. They did not work as well as the best form of seasickness cure :don't go on the sea !
So I sold all my gear and refused to set foot on a sea fishing boat again.
Well nearly . I did go on a few trips , well you can't refuse top offers to go Bass fishing and Tope fishing can you ? I did catch but also felt dreadful enough to put me off going for a few years.
Well my good friend Jeff has a passion for all things boat shaped, his reasoning that each boat "is a compromise" has resulted in him owning a few boats ! Well the time has come to join him on "Jupiter's Moon "his newest addition to the fleet.
So I am off to a hypnotherapy session tomorrow and then its off to the deep blue ( or slightly off grey ) sea at the weekend to see what "Jupiter's Moon" is really like . Wish me luck !
I used to run a sea fishing club at work .Our trips were very succesful and we made a regular excursion from Littlehampton on board the "Blue Badger" skippered by Mike Pratt or from Brighton on the "Colinjoy" .Great fun ! We even went further a field to Deal, Langstone and to Weymouth .
The old adage that "pride comes before a fall" springs to mind as I remember laughing at the poor sods in my party that felt seasick . Oh how I regret that now ! I fished ( oh and laughed at sufferers of the malaise ) for about 10 years till the day out of Langstone when it happened to me. God I felt ill ! I wanted to die . Can anything be worse than that ...i doubt it ?
I then moved to various seasickness remedies :eat ginger biscuits and drink orange juice ( the polite version of this remedy is that ginger settles the stomach and orange provides vitamin C and sugar , the reality is it tastes the same going up as it did going down !)various tablets which were great in preventing seasickness but made me sleep for a solid two days after taking them ! I had to be taken home and collect the car the next day ! I even tried some bands worn round the wrist ,oh and various herbal remedies. They did not work as well as the best form of seasickness cure :don't go on the sea !
So I sold all my gear and refused to set foot on a sea fishing boat again.
Well nearly . I did go on a few trips , well you can't refuse top offers to go Bass fishing and Tope fishing can you ? I did catch but also felt dreadful enough to put me off going for a few years.
Well my good friend Jeff has a passion for all things boat shaped, his reasoning that each boat "is a compromise" has resulted in him owning a few boats ! Well the time has come to join him on "Jupiter's Moon "his newest addition to the fleet.
So I am off to a hypnotherapy session tomorrow and then its off to the deep blue ( or slightly off grey ) sea at the weekend to see what "Jupiter's Moon" is really like . Wish me luck !
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