[ospreyman]

A big thank you to everybody on here who has helped me begin to learn this fishing buisiness and the technicalities of running a boat with a motor, it came together today! (except unfortuantly the photos!) i still prefer sails tho but their to slow.

struggled to get out of the harbour, fueled up first then mayhem as an incoming boat broke down in the lock and subsequently a huge backlog built up. did talk to the owner of the only other osprey in eastbourne tho- he was not looking forward to the big tides today- i had bought some extra 12oz weights in anticipation.

decided to go exploring in the area (15 miles out of eastbourne) rob the radish and cascars have been fishing recently, picked a largish looking wreck off the chart, and surprisingly found it straight away. plan was to move on to some others in the area and when the tide got to strong go inshore for the bream.

first drop down, a tester with a pirk and hokais on a stumpy 15£ rod, result 5lb cod. next 3 drifts gave a cod up each. lost the rig so went filleting and getting them on ice. decided to get the waveblaster out and cod like white so put a white sidewinder on, lowered straight into the wreck and instantly took a new pb cod, went 9lb when ashore, carried on lost the white and put a rhubarb on more cod. enough is enough. (24 portions currently freezing down, many of them will go to the lads who threw up in the area 2 weeks ago) tried bait for bream or gurnard, lost the bait every time but no fish!

should have stopped for bream on the way home- by now a flat calm sea but why spoil a crackin day with failure- only to watch bream being gutted when in the inbound lock.

many thanks to all - most of you know who you are but there are some on here who contribute unacknowledged

oh the tides, big springs, and the drift never went above 1.5 mph? was .5 to .8 most of the time, how the hell do you explain that?

 

[SeaDonkey]

Great report Greg,good fishing too :clap3:

 

[Pedro the Fisherman]

How many can you fish on your boat Greg - my guys are lining up! Great post! Nice to know that sometimes it all goes right!

 

[Guest]

Good to see a catch report from you Greg:whistling:laugh:. Well done on the PB and it sounds like you had a very productive day. I would have been out if had not had a wedding to do:mellow:.
Next week is not looking too good with strong southerlies but hopefully the week after I will be able to squeeze in a trip before getting the boat out for my Ireland trip

 

[egg-custard]

hi...big congratulations..really well done greg im pleased for you...
onwards and upwards..you are certainly getting there..

the wrecks at that distance is my aim for next year...so i will keep reading your reports,to see how your doing,,and maybe gleen a tip or to from you...

well done mate.. pay back for that lost january cod it getting ever nearer...this year you will tag it .im sure..

 

[seanclarke]

Sounds like a cracking days fishing Ospreyman. I'm just "getting to know" my new boat, but should hopefully be venturing further a field in the not too distant feature.

Out of interest, how do you identify a wreck to fish? Just look on the standard charts? I have seen these, but just assume as they are on a standard chart then they will be fished to death and like a ghost town... having said that, it's not like I am hugely successful, so it might be worth a punt.

 

[brianjb61]

Well done Greg, bet ti was a lovely day out there yesterday.

 

[Guest]

Sounds like a cracking days fishing Ospreyman. I'm just "getting to know" my new boat, but should hopefully be venturing further a field in the not too distant feature.

Out of interest, how do you identify a wreck to fish? Just look on the standard charts? I have seen these, but just assume as they are on a standard chart then they will be fished to death and like a ghost town... having said that, it's not like I am hugely successful, so it might be worth a punt.

Not too sure about your area but round the Kent and Sussex coats there are literally thousands of wrecks. Some of them are regularly visited by both charter and private boats, but with so many out there many of them must be almost untouched. Just pick one, plot it and try it. If it is any good then make a note of it for the future.
Often the first time you go to a wreck and spend some time plotting it, the results may not be so good due to disturbing any fish life by motoring backwards and forwards over it. The next time you go to it start uptide and drift it. You may well find it fished much better.
This particularly applies to wrecks in shallower water (Under 100ft).
Even those wrecks which get heavily fished seem to very quickly re-populate themselves.

 

[Mr Kipling]

Well done on the fish.
Was considering going out but thought the tides were to fast looks like a wrong call.
Hopefully someone will come on and explain

Chris

 

[ospreyman]

well done mate.. pay back for that lost january cod it getting ever nearer...this year you will tag it .im sure..[/QUOTE]

cheers for that andy, i had forgotton about that but you reminded me- and the 9lber went in the net 2 of us coudnt get a cods tail in! oh well thats fishing and i will catch it again next january- and it doesnt involve steeming 15 miles off
all the best
greg

 

[ospreyman]

Sounds like a cracking days fishing Ospreyman. I'm just "getting to know" my new boat, but should hopefully be venturing further a field in the not too distant feature.

Out of interest, how do you identify a wreck to fish? Just look on the standard charts? I have seen these, but just assume as they are on a standard chart then they will be fished to death and like a ghost town... having said that, it's not like I am hugely successful, so it might be worth a punt.

hi
all i did yesterday was pick a wreck with a good height above the sea bed in an area i knew (largely from on here) was fishing ok and went and found it and then plotted it, navionics gold was , in this case spot on. try dive sites for info and chat to the locals.

 

[ospreyman]

Well done on the fish.
Was considering going out but thought the tides were to fast looks like a wrong call.
Hopefully someone will come on and explain

Chris

hopefully someone will explain,- never used more than 6oz in 160 foot of water! might have to get myself a tidal stream atlas and investigate furthur

 

[RobTheRadish]

A big thank you to everybody on here who has helped me begin to learn this fishing buisiness and the technicalities of running a boat with a motor, it came together today! (except unfortuantly the photos!) i still prefer sails tho but their to slow.

struggled to get out of the harbour, fueled up first then mayhem as an incoming boat broke down in the lock and subsequently a huge backlog built up. did talk to the owner of the only other osprey in eastbourne tho- he was not looking forward to the big tides today- i had bought some extra 12oz weights in anticipation.

decided to go exploring in the area (15 miles out of eastbourne) rob the radish and cascars have been fishing recently, picked a largish looking wreck off the chart, and surprisingly found it straight away. plan was to move on to some others in the area and when the tide got to strong go inshore for the bream.

first drop down, a tester with a pirk and hokais on a stumpy 15£ rod, result 5lb cod. next 3 drifts gave a cod up each. lost the rig so went filleting and getting them on ice. decided to get the waveblaster out and cod like white so put a white sidewinder on, lowered straight into the wreck and instantly took a new pb cod, went 9lb when ashore, carried on lost the white and put a rhubarb on more cod. enough is enough. (24 portions currently freezing down, many of them will go to the lads who threw up in the area 2 weeks ago) tried bait for bream or gurnard, lost the bait every time but no fish!

should have stopped for bream on the way home- by now a flat calm sea but why spoil a crackin day with failure- only to watch bream being gutted when in the inbound lock.

many thanks to all - most of you know who you are but there are some on here who contribute unacknowledged

oh the tides, big springs, and the drift never went above 1.5 mph? was .5 to .8 most of the time, how the hell do you explain that?

Well done Greg, you cant beat finding a wreck all by yourself and getting fish from it, nice one.

As for the slow drifts on a big tide you were probably either; fishing an hour or so either side of high/low water as the tide run slows right down even on springs!(this can be a few hrs different even just 15 miles offshore), or you may have had wind over tide, as sometimes it slows the drifts nicely even on springs.
Rob

 

[ospreyman]

Well done Greg, you cant beat finding a wreck all by yourself and getting fish from it, nice one.

As for the slow drifts on a big tide you were probably either; fishing an hour or so either side of high/low water as the tide run slows right down even on springs!(this can be a few hrs different even just 15 miles offshore), or you may have had wind over tide, as sometimes it slows the drifts nicely even on springs.
Rob

Rob
thats the puzzle, from memory high inshore was 1pm, arrived approx 2pm with a light southerly/ swerly breeze which gave s to north drift at .5mph, gradually as the wind dropped right away drift swung to east to westerly but as i left about 5pm was still down at 1.5mph. i expected to be whistling past.