Fishing - Anybody doing any ?

Had an impromptu boating trip (just me on the public day).. went all over - sandbanks, down the deep holes near st.catherines, ...

I caught a wrasse on the new spinning outfit and nothing else.. just seemed that everywhere was on a downer (I could hear the other skippers saying the same and trying to locate something!). The wrasse took the mackerel feathers I made :D however I had a load of lead on... so it wasn't particularly sporting..

In the end we did manage some blonde rays, then a single of each - undulate ray, titchy tope, dogfish, bass, bream.

He's doing cod/bass tomorrow but I specially wanted today because we'd be anchored and I wanted to practice casting spinning and uptide - although the tide was so strong up tiding become downtiding - even with a massive TV arial uptide lead anchor fashioned out of garden wire and 14oz+ of lead..

I got good at the spinning cast.. 1-2oz and the rod loads lovely.. then goes miles (20lb braid on a full spool reel).

Think the smoothy/ray on the spinning gear will be great.

The untide rod was working well.. but as it's 20lb 5-10oz.. the tide needed 12+oz so casting wasn't great but I could experiment.

What was freaky was two of the lads there had the 30lb version of my 50lb Fladen sea range - it looked identical but you could tell from the bend the difference!
 
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Just back from Selsey, fished from 2am till 3:30am, i would have stayed longer as high tide was at 5am but there wasnt any smoothys about :/
there was one other chap thee who didnt catch either so there was no point just sitting there getting tired
 
NickK said:
Hehe managed to shatter the uptide tip ZOG ring.. just waiting on the replacement to arrive..
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how'd you manage that?
i chipped the end 2 alconite eyes on my zziplex not long after i bought it, from reeling in too far and a swivel went through them :(
 
I went on saturday and had great time with the new spinning rod (caught a Wrasse.. from a boat using the mackerel lures I made lol). Bit over powered for a wrasse but a fish!

The Untide was good and I was attempting to practice uptide casting - the problem was simply that I wasn't getting any power. Turns out that if I move my had down to the lower EVA grip under the reel *power* and the rod loads nicely.. only to load itself into the wood near me (I wasn't expecting that).
So the metal is fine just the inner ceramic that shattered.

Still waiting on the spare.. supposedly it would be dispatched that day but called this morning and the automated response - the guy is on stocktaking until 5th august (read holiday). So I don't know if the spare is on its' way or not.
Will order the glue etc in the mean time from blanksnguides.. then it should be a heat, remove, add new glue slithers, heat & stick.

The 50lb rod has a split ceramic too, temporarily repaired with nail varnish - but that needs a full under thread and overthread winding on the new guide before the next trip - CONGER!!! :D
 
bits for the repair ordered.. should have the glue for the tip, and a ring & replacement threading kit available.

Found the original guide, but it's US sourced so instead I have a Fuji like-for-like replacement (although looks different, the spacings are the same).
 
help I go course fishing and have searched the internet for a new rod holdall at the moment I have a Diawa 175cm what is the about right but all the rod bags now are way to long for me there was a cheap 5ft 3 one but the review said the stiching came undone, :(
 
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help I go course fishing and have searched the internet for a new rod holdall at the moment I have a Diawa 175cm what is the about right but all the rod bags now are way to long for me there was a cheap 5ft 3 one but the review said the stiching came undone, :(
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Could restitch with stronger thread?


This afternoon replaced the tip (hot glue) and applied a sealing epoxy; also removed the old guide ring of the larger rod, just sealed the under wrap then tomorrow it will be a performing the new ring wrap and then two coats.
 
Cool - the new rings is on, did the double over-wrap and applied the first layer of over sealing epoxy.. still slightly rough and the next 1-2 coats of epoxy will then make it smooth.

First the hot glue tip replacement on the agility uptide.. left shattered, right new replacement
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That was easy!
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Next.. ripping through the guide binding:
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Cleaned and ready for new binding - left the existing under wrap..
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Did an application of resin on the under wrap to seal it where the ring removal ripped the existing resin.

Did a the double overwrap:
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Then resin layer (including sealing the tunnels caused by the wrap):
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Not bad alignment
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The new ring is a Fuji 30-50lb ring and is far better quality.
 
Did the second coat on the rod - now a lot smoother.. although not perfect. You can see the old resin at the sides but the new stuff is far better quality imho!

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September is the next trip out.. but I could do with just going down to the coast and shoving the spinning rod off the wall for a morning..
 
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NickK said:
I could do with just going down to the coast and shoving the spinning rod off the wall for a morning..
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Fridays looking good weather wise, this is for Brighton..

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shame about the tide times though (gmt so add 1 hour to times shown)

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Hmm Brighton - M20 and trip down is likely to be painful though given operation stack atm.

Sort of trip I'd be tempted to take the spinning rod, the fly rod (for variation) and the untide for additional casting range/practice.. and a camping chair..... the list starts to grow lol.
 
cainer said:
you must be thinking of Folkestone or Dover,
Brighton is down the M23
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Good point. For some reason I had that pegged in my mind as M20 - probably because we use the euro tunnel quite a bit.

Fiver there, fiver back and parking cost.. could make a day out. Hmm... Hmmm.....
 
cainer said:
its free parking in the multistory car park at the marina, i think its £3 1 rod £4-£5 for 2 rods though to fish the marina breakwaters

the head baliff Frank has a twitter feed with updates of whats comming out https://twitter.com/thetackleboxbtn
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Cool - rang them and flyfishing is allowed too.. not that you'd get a massive distance but useful to know for practice.

Only thing - need a drop net..
 
quite a few anglers down there will have one, if you manage to catch anything big enough to need one just give em a shout ;) im guessing you'd probably just catch mackerel on a fly though and judging by the reports there seems to be quite a few about down there so you should see some action,
drop nets are quite reasonably priced though, you should be able to get one for <£10 and they sell them in the tacklebox shop
 
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I tend to try to keep self sufficient.

The mrs is asking why I want to go all that way and what about down to hayling.. I suppose hanging of the harbour break water.. but because it's an estuary I'm assuming that it'll be covered by a freshwater licence requirement.
 
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