Ryde Middle Catch Report 27-01-07

[richi]

Met up with Paintfly and launched at Browndown at 1pm,sunny sky,flat sea,hardly any wind

 

 

had the mark all programmed into the Gps and broke off one of the terminals to connect to the battery :(Still had chart printouts and we decided to try and navigate to Ryde Middle from them-

 

 

Success! that is Paintfly passing SE Ryde Middle Bouy

 

We anchored up next to a small fishing boat

 

 

and proceeded to catch fish-Dogfish to be precise!--I had 14 in all!

 

 

 

also caught a starry smoothound,my first of the year

 

 

and the obligatory pouting of which I caught 5

 

 

returned to Browndown just after 8pm,20 fish caught, at least 5 miles covered and a new mark fished

 

would like to thank all the weather forecasts for getting the wind speed completely wrong--we didn't want to go to the Needles anyway ???

[nifty]

Nice one Richie It looks almost like a summers day in that first pic. As for weather forecasts, I'm sure that a force 3 nowadays actually means 5

[SpeciMan]

Nice report Richi - smoothhound pup in January - well I never

 

 

The forecasts I checked last night (Metcheck, BBC, MetOffice) looked ok for the Needles today.

 

 

 

Did the wind pick up?

[richi]

Nice report Richi - smoothhound pup in January - well I never

The forecasts I checked last night (Metcheck, BBC, MetOffice) looked ok for the Needles today.

Did the wind pick up?

 

I looked at xc weather this morning and they said it would be around 10mph-wrong!

 

it must have been about a 4mph wind picking up to 5mph!! and they predicted NW and it was more like SW

 

May have a fish tomorrow morning,thinking about a mudeford launch

[Martin Hurst]

well done lads , looks a great day. Just keep all them doggies darn sarf !!

[overrun]

Nice one chaps, weather was great, wind light and more species to add to your list for 2007, can't be bad.

[codshead]

would like to thank all the weather forecasts for getting the wind speed completely wrong--we didn't want to go to the Needles anyway ???

 

There's a great lump of high pressure forecast this coming week, lets hope there right and it sticks around for the weekend.

[space monkey]

glad you got out lads and had a good day, the yorkshire lads know a thing or two about wind forecasts also!

[GB]

There's a great lump of high pressure forecast this coming week, lets hope there right and it sticks around for the weekend.

 

Even if it's 1050mb, 26 degrees, 16 degree water temp, suicidal bass, tope, blue's, makies, pollack and cod on my doorstep and if I had the whole weekend off on double pay with day's in lue. I aint getting no pass from the F.P.O.

 

Anyone got any pagan spell's that I can cast.

 

Why does life always get in the way of fishing??

[mikeb]

good report the smoothhound was early, seen on another forum a red mullet has recently been caught at hayling