Boat fishing

By way of a change I booked a trip out with Mike on teddy boy charters at minehead, he may be only 12 (22 really)but he has made a good name for himself in a fairly short time.

Only four of us on the boat today, due to covid 19 and social distancing, myself, judith, james, my youngest son, and lastly dan fowler, also a big thanks to daughter Lauren for helping us out by letting the dogs out for us X.

It was going to be an 8 hour trip, and very sociable start as we left the quay at 12 and were due back in at 8, the beauty of going out of minehead , especially if you are just after a days fishing is that there is no long steam, meaning more fishing time. So ten minutes after leaving the harbour, 

the anchor was down and we were fishing, and it didn't take to long for the ever present doggies to find our baits we did have a few.other fish, a day a hound and some congers(small), Mike decided a move down the channel may be a good idea, , so again after a short steam we had baits in the water, and the fishing was.good, nothing to big but we had allsorts, (not liquorice), small eyes , spotted , blonde and thornback rays.

We had several more hound,s , well when I say we, I mean they did, I couldn't catch one.

And just to cap it off , Judith had a good to add to her species count, even if it was just out of the egg.

Got to say it was a.lovely.day, unbroken sunshine and a flat sea,.along with plenty of fish, we did get quite a few.small conger.up.to double figures, and don't forget the copious amounts of doggies, I can see us doing this again before to long.