Beer self drives

Off down to devon on Monday, with little or no wind forecast it would be a nice day for small boat fishing, its run by simon bartlett who is always helpful, and his boats are old style clinker built with in board diesel engines, very seaworthy and stable, if anyone fancies a go he can be reached on 07773923120, but it pays to book in advance as it is popular. Back to the fishing but not before we had a nice breakfast in the anchor pub overlooking the beach (4.5). There had been a few plaice being caught in the bay so we started off drifting with ragworm baits, but they had iether gone or the weather wasnt to there liking, even though it was quite a small tide the drift was good but all we managed were some small gurnards, pretty fish if not a bit spiky, and nice tasting if big enough to take, but todays samples certainly weren't.

We had a few drifts but not good so went further out and anchored up, and even though we moved around a bit we caught more than enough fish of varying sizes and species to keep us interested, small hounds, thornback ray and conger, oh yes and the ever present doggies, but only fishung with 30g spinning outfits, always good fun, surprisingly no bream, and no mackerel, the water was incredibly clear, baits were visible nearly 30 feet down.

I did mange a rock though with some sort of weird anemone on it.

but the biggest highlight of the day was spotting a pod of common dolphins a few hundred metres

So we upped anchor and went in pursuit, it took a while to catch up, but we did and the dolphins duly obliged, they actually turned and came to meet us, then stayed with the boat, swimming along right next to us, there were even baby ones swimming with there mothers, a few stills form the video judith took as i struggle to put vidoes on here, but a lively experience