| #1  01-08-2008, 05:50 PM | ||||
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| Penarth 8th Jan 08 Only the second time out in my new Warrior 165. I put her in the water in early Dec but the weather has been really lousy for small boats and the only few decent days we`ve had I`ve either been working or pi**ed. First time out, I nearly blanked. Thank god for the 6" codling hiding in weed on my last cast. Anyway, I decided to go out today and christen my new Abu Suveran uptider. Howling gale force S Westerly and armed with rag and squid, took the 10.00 lock and headed for the Cardiff grounds. Although the boat handled the rough sea quite well, it was a little too uncomfortable sat at anchor so headed into the relative shelter of the Rannie Bay. Dropped anchor on the last 3 hours of the ebb. Even though the tide was running quite fast, the wind was so strong it was blowing us up past the anchor buoy. First cast was a small codling, next cast another about 2lb then two more really small things. All with their mouths stuffed with sprats. The wind seemed to ease then on the flood so headed off out a bit further but caught nothing else on a poor windy january day. For some reason I couldnt stop my anchor from dragging. It was a real pain. I never had much problem anchoring with my old boat but that was a heavy old thing with hinged triangular plates. This is a 5kg Bruce (I think thats what its called) with about 3-4 m of chain attached to it. Anyway, It was a great day out even if the fishing was a bit slow. Great boat, great rod and christened it on its first outing. Bring on friday (another day off) Andy PS Dont know what happened to the font size. I cant seem to change it. __________________ Andy. ------------------- Treat each day as your last, one day you`ll be right. Last edited by Norfolkboy; 01-08-2008 at 06:25 PM.     |
| #2 01-08-2008, 06:26 PM | ||||
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| Re: Penarth 8th Jan 08 Nice one Andy, glad you enjoyed your day out and always good to christen a new rod.  __________________ Dan `·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸ Big or small, look after them all! ¸.·´¯`·.¸ ><((((º> |
| #3 01-08-2008, 07:14 PM | ||||
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 Re: Penarth 8th Jan 08 At Least you got out Andy, shame about the fishing at the moment in the Channel. Our last trip out of Barry was awful 1 guy blanked another had a solitary codling of 3lbs i had 1 dog fish the rest of the crew didn't fair any better apart from one lucky bugger who had a 22lb10oz Blonde Ray and set a new club record...what a fish!   __________________ Eventually all things merge into one, and a River runs through it. Old Smoothy |Shoot and fish .com |Fishing Holidays | Fly Fishing Tuition |
| #4 01-08-2008, 08:32 PM | ||||
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| Re: Penarth 8th Jan 08 nice to get the new toys working for you  dave __________________ Rapidly becomeing a serial blanker www.exmouthsaa.co.uk I have the body of a God, Pity its Buddha :-0 |
| #5 01-09-2008, 06:33 AM | ||||
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| Abu Suveran uptider sounds hard work but bet your new Abu Suveran uptider was spot on __________________ Richard|Sea Fishing |Carp Fishing| Spud Gun | Zander fishing | Fishing Reports | Hunting Reports |
| #6 01-09-2008, 06:35 AM | ||||
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| Re: Penarth 8th Jan 08 Well done on getting out, Me I'm stuck on the sick first with a chest infection and now with gastric bug.No not the sickness but severe pains in the belly. What rod did you go for Andy? Me i chose the 4-8oz and tried it out on Kaptin Kods boat on the 30th Dec. Both paul & pete were laughing as all the bigger fish came to the other uptider and i christened it with two very small cod.Nice action though. Can;t wait for it to connect with a decent fish and the twist & lok is an excellent idear. all the best charlie..... __________________ MIB Boat Angling Club |
| #7 01-09-2008, 08:38 AM | ||||
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| Re: Penarth 8th Jan 08 No change there then Shaun - you not pulling the blondes !!!!!  Nice boat Andy - we used to have one and they are simply brilliant - Im sure youll have plenty of excellent days in her and Im glad you at least managed to christen her and your new rod. Tommy __________________ So near yet so far - Wembley 2008 - Zideered Right Up ! |
| #8 01-09-2008, 05:43 PM | ||||
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| Re: Penarth 8th Jan 08 hi andy havent heard from you for a while,bet your chuffed with new boat. have you sorted the leak out yet. we also have new boat arvor 215as being delivered 2nd week feb, really looking forward to that. after saying that mind our old shetland served its purpose.the spratts are a bit of a pest at the moment though, but did catch a cracker the sat before xmas 15lb cod biggest cod on board (so far ) have you changed the name of your boat? give us a call if you are out one weekend. plugger peter __________________ if at first you dont succeed buy a boat. peter |
| #9 01-09-2008, 07:52 PM | ||||
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| Re: Penarth 8th Jan 08 Hi Andy. Try doubling the length of your chain. It could make all the difference. Also how much anchor rope did you have out? If it is rough you need at least 3 times the depth to hold bottom. Sean. |
| #10 01-10-2008, 05:01 AM | ||||
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| Re: Penarth 8th Jan 08 Quote:
It doesnt seem long ago I was praying "bring on the cod". After such a poor cod season........"bring on the bass (or anything really)". lol Andy __________________ Andy. ------------------- Treat each day as your last, one day you`ll be right. |
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