boat fishing

as i said last week dean me and the park furnisher boys are off to watchet for a day afloat with shaun on seafire. dean was left in charge of bait so you can probably guess what happened, we ended up with a shoal of mackerel , sprats ,squid oh yea and a pint sorry i meant pound of ragworm it must have made bill pugh,s day.all of this being stored in dean,s new cooler box which turned out to be bigger than the life boat on the boat , but luckily being an american brand it is grizzlie bear proof which can be very useful when you are fishing in the shelter of the quantocks ,who knows there may be bears in them hills. any way back to the fishing and as alan healy booked the trip it will come as no suprise that we ended up in the bristol channel on one of the biggest tides of the year with massive ammounts of fast water making fishing difficult due to the amount of lead needed to hold bottom.
starting off out from bossington beach it soon became apparent that it was going to be difficult as even the dodgies failed to show we had a couple of really small ones , but what was nice to see was the small tope that were being caught(12 inches well i did say small). with the wind picking up and the tide easing shaun decided to move us back up the coast to a sand bank were we may get some rays. anchoring up and with the tide still runnng at a fair old lick up tiding was the best way to go , so on with a whole squid and a lob of about 40 mtrs up and across from the boat, its just like feeder chucking and after letting a big bow develop you just sit back and wait for the tip to start nodding, which it did on the first chuck and a small eyed ray of about 3 lb was soon in the boat while the tide was running we had 13 more ray up to about 8 lb plus some more tiny tope and equally tiny lsd,s with the tide easing bites stopped but the skipper assured us that on the start of the flood we would start catching again guess what we ,we never. so a third and last move found us about10 mins from the harbour in about 15 foot of water, out with a squid and sprat cocktail and it took about one hour and several bait changes before i had a bite , and a small conger found its way to the boat , and as the water got beeper with the flooding we all started to get small conger with the biggest probably going about 7 lb not massive but good fun. all to soon it was time to up anchor and head back to watchet .we never actually brought any fish home cos the only things that were big enough were a couplle of the rays
all in all it was a good day and made nice change . breakfast at shipham 8.30, watchet by 10.30 on the boat at 11 and back in at 7 home by 9 and all i got to show for it is a red head cos i forgot my hat and sunglasses, and i got to say i really enjoyed it but i cant wait to get back to some proper fishing on wednesday, viaduct i think cos i feel there is some thing missing oh yea it was the quid from fabio and the 3 from timmy . but i did get a quid off alan healy for the biggest fish , he is really shit