it was another day out with the park furnishers boys and the destination today was lyme regis out on the suzy b , we should have realised it was going to be bad as the skipper had pointed us to a sea front cafe he had asked to open up for us. now i dont mind being charged over 6 quid for a brekkie as we had a sea view but then it was another £2.30 for a coffee(ouch that hurt),fairplay to martin alexander he told them to stuff it and walked out asw did bob from parks, but the rest of us did pay but it deffo wasnt worth it.
we were on the boat by 8 and steaming out towards the first mark which was to be a wreck about 10 miles out in about 100 feet of water where we would be drifting with artificials like shads ,redgills, jellies and the like.
when we got there we ran over the wreck and there were plenty of fish showing on the sounder so we were fairly confident, 3 hours later and god knows how many drifts all we had to show was 2 small pollack and a few big pout. chatting to the skippers mate he told us that trawlers hed been working the wreck recently and the bass had been a bit scarce as even he had not had one this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so the skipper decided to knock that in the head, move inshore and try for some black bream on the rough ground, 2 hours on the anchor and all we had to show were some small wrasse. this was going from bad to worse. so it was another move back out to some rough ground in deeper water where we had 5 bream and some dogfish, after an hour of that it was up anchor and back into lyme regis and that was the day over.
i dont think we will be going there again, i found out that the skippers main job is that of a boiler maker, perhaps he should stick to that, we had a couple of novices on the boat who had hired gear on the boat so you would have expected the skipper or his mate to be on hand helping them , the mate did a bit but the skipper stayed mainly in his cabin looking out of the door, and what gives the mate the rights to fish . we paid a lot of money(360 quid)so i would expect the skipper and his mate to help a bit , no a lot mor
the especcially the novices . so anyone thinking of booking a boat give the suzy b a wide berth.
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was the skipper called ron by any chance?
ReplyDeleteif so a few lads and myself chartered that boat last year,i think we landed one bream and a couple of doggies.The skipper made no effort what so ever beside defrosting a squid in a bucket and cutting it into strips,not great when you've handed over the best part of 400 nicker!
Waste of time!!
andy curry
the skipper you had unfortunately lost a battle with cancer earlier this year so his son martin has taken over the boat but i think he should get himself an enthusiasm implant a bit sharpish or just stick to the holiday mackerel trips around the bay cos i think he must fish the same marks and wreck each time he goes out
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