Beer boats

Judith and me booked this day off ages ago in the hope that the weather would be good enough to get out in the self drive boats launched off the beach in the small Devon resort of beer, the weather god must have had a good day as the weather was for light northerly winds , going southerly but staying light, and lots of sunshine.
We stopped off in Taunton at a premier inn for breakfast, nice, 4.2.
An hour after that we were driving down to the beach car park , where it's possible to park all day for a fiver, can't be bad.
Wandered down to the beach and found simon, who runs the operation, and found we were in the same boat as the 4 times we have done this before, a wooden boat called Endeavour, not quick boats but lovely and safe, we soon had everything on board and were heading out under the white cliffs going out towards beer head.

The plan was to drift for plaice , but Simon thought there may not be enough he to push us along, and even less wind, and he was right, we tried a couple of drifts but it didn't seem to be right, Judith had the only flattie(about right) a nice fish of about 1 1/2 lb, which went back unharmed, we only fish for fun and some of the pleasure comes from seeing them swimming off.

We did try for another but it never looked to good , but it was extremely relaxing.

There was an algae bloom which most probably never helped, as the water had a lot of colour to it, we decided to motor out beyond the head to see if there were any early bream about, there had been some good ones coming out but not to many, also the smoothounds were in and as we had some crab we may get some of these aswell, as we went beyond the head the water changed colour, the clouds of algae disappeared giving way to nice clear blue sea, so we dropped the anchor and sent some baits to the bottom.
Lots of big jelly fish about today, that many that we were suffering liners from them all day.

 We had plenty of bites all day, unfortunately there seemed.to be a plethora of dogfish on the bottom, Judith did hook a good fish which was stripping line, but unfortunately it came off, then we had a small conger  which was unhooked in the water, then I had a small hound of about 6lb, which was good fun on the light spinning outfits we tend to use,

 after that it was back to the doggies, still it's better than nothing, and it's funny watching Judith wrestling with the rough skinned mini sharks.

Not to many fish today of the desired species, but the weather and the company was faultless, these days out with Judith the best, we have a right laugh proper quality time together,
Anyone interested can book these small boats weather permitting, give Simon a ring on
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